Pop culture has long warned us about the perils of spending too much time inside an office. Yet Hollywood can’t stop spending time in one. NBC is developing a potential follow-up series to The Office. Now we know at least two people who will be working at this new iteration if it ever opens. Star Wars‘ Domhnall Gleeson and The White Lotus‘ Sabrina Impacciatore are the first performers to join the spinoff’s cast.
The Hollywood Reporter says Gleeson and Impacciatore have signed on for a possible new sequel show to the smash hit NBC series, which remains as popular as ever thanks to streaming. This new version is in development from original series creator Greg Daniels and Michael Korman. However, neither NBC nor Daniels and Korman have confirmed any details about the show. They also refused comment to THR over this casting news.
Despite their silence this is still a big step towards bringing the series to either primetime TV or Peacock. Reports of a potential The Office spinoff first came to light last September. Daniels then put together a writing room in January. But there’s still a long way to go for it to make it to air anywhere.
With two established stars joining the show, though, it feels closer than ever to filming. Impacciatore is an Emmy-nominated actress, and Gleeson is known around both this world and the galaxy far, far away as the detestable General Armitage Hux. Does that mean Gleeson could be stepping into the Michael Scott-equivalent role on this new series? (He did just star opposite Steve Carrell on FX’s The Patient.) Or could the show opt to have Impacciatore play the show’s boss? That only happened for the first time ever on any country’s version with Australia’s The Office last year. And she does have necessarily managerial experience thanks to White Lotus…
Or could neither of these two be the boss. Might they be the new Jim and Pam instead? Dwight and Angela? To find out we’ll have to go to the one place pop culture keeps telling us is terrible for us to be, even if it’s fun to watch others go there.
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