{"id":7098,"date":"2025-05-12T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2025-05-12T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:05:25","slug":"peacocks-the-paper-announced-as-official-follow-up-to-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"Peacock\u2019s \u2018The Paper\u2019 announced as official follow-up to \u2018The Office\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Peacock has officially announced The Paper as the next installment in The Office universe, with the new mockumentary series premiering in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Created by The Office showrunner Greg Daniels and Michael Koman (Nathan for You), the series shifts focus from Dunder Mifflin to the struggling newsroom of a historic local paper in Toledo, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Domhnall Gleeson stars as the publisher of the failing Midwestern newspaper, leading a crew of untrained staffers forced to double as volunteer reporters due to budget constraints. The series takes a comedic look at the decline of local journalism and the impact of the internet on traditional media, with Daniels calling it \u201ca fruitful premise\u201d during a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Nu\u00f1ez will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez from The Office, continuing the character\u2019s journey in a new setting. He jokingly remarked at NBCUniversal\u2019s upfront event that he once imagined Oscar moving to a more cosmopolitan place\u2014only to end up in Toledo, which he noted has \u201cthree times the population of Scranton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series also stars Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Ramona Young, and Tim Key. Several cast members, including Ikumelo, Edelman, and Mo Welch, also contribute as writers. Guest stars include Tracy Letts, Molly Ephraim, and Nancy Lenehan.<\/p>\n<p>The Paper is produced by Universal Television, with executive producers Daniels, Koman, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Howard Klein, Ben Silverman, and Banijay Americas.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peacock has officially announced The Paper as the next installment in The Office universe, with the new mockumentary series premiering in September 2025. Created by The Office showrunner Greg Daniels and Michael Koman (Nathan for You), the series shifts focus from Dunder Mifflin to the struggling newsroom of a historic local paper in Toledo, Ohio. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}