The Paper, an Office spinoff, debuts on Peacock Sept 4, 2025

The Office franchise returns to television in September 2025 with a new spinoff, The Paper, that moves the original show’s mockumentary crew from Scranton to a struggling Midwestern newsroom. Peacock will release all 10 episodes of the first season on September 4. The series, created and run by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, stars Domhnall Gleeson as Ned Sampson, the editor in chief trying to revive the Toledo Truth-Teller, and features a supporting ensemble including Sabrina Impacciatore, Melvin Gregg, Chelsea Frei, Ramona Young, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Tim Key and Oscar Nuñez, who will reprise his Office role as Oscar.

The Paper follows the documentary team that once filmed the employees of Dunder Mifflin as they search for a new subject and land on a historic newspaper that is fighting to stay afloat with the help of volunteer reporters. Daniels has stressed that the new show is not a reboot or a revival of The Office, saying he prefers to let the original series stand on its own because its characters had closure. He described the new program as a sibling of sorts to the original, conceived to expand the universe without redoing the same story. On the decision to...