Peacock Announces Premiere Date for New 'Office' Spinoff 'The Paper'

Originally posted on Men's Journal | By Jessica McBride | Last updated May 13, 2025 9:37 AM ET

The name and premiere date for Peacock's new Office spinoff, The Paper, have been released, and fans are also getting a first glimpse of the set.

"It's official: The Paper, the new mockumentary series set in The Office universe, will premiere exclusively on Peacock this September," Peacock announced in a statement.

The announcement is exciting fans of the beloved Office.

"Created by Greg Daniels (The Office) and Michael Koman (Nathan for You), The Paper brings the action from Scranton to Toledo as the same documentary crew that followed the beloved employees of Dunder Mifflin search for a new subject to focus on," the release says. "They land on the historic but struggling Midwestern newspaper, The Truth Teller, and the eager publisher trying to revive it."

The network released a first photo: "In the first photo released by Peacock of the anticipated series, you get an early glimpse at the world of The Paper. Series star Domhnall Gleeson is seen standing on one of the desks in the newsroom as he rallies the crew with a smile on his face, as the employees look on," the statement reads.

The set of 'The Paper'Peacock release

"If one of those employees looks familiar, your eyes are not fooling you. That’s The Office alum Oscar Nuñez, who played accountant Oscar Martinez in the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin, sitting in the background behind a computer. What’s he doing in Toledo?" Peacock noted.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Paper "will employ much of the same crew that worked on the former series," former Office showrunner Greg Daniels told THR, saying that he’s excited "to work on another mockumentary."

“It’s about this struggling Midwestern newspaper that’s much reduced from its glory days. A lot of the story lines are about how this guy, Domhnall Gleeson’s character, is trying to restore this paper, and he just doesn’t have the budget for hiring reporters, and he has to use all the staff that work there on a volunteer basis to be reporters," Daniels told THR.

"They’re completely untrained and don’t know what they’re doing,” Daniels said to THR. “It’s a fruitful premise. There’s a tremendous history for local papers. The villain here is the internet and the ability to look at everybody’s news for free, and all the ad revenue going to Google.”

The cast includes Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Ramona Young, and Tim Key, according to Peacock.

This article first appeared on Men's Journal and was syndicated with permission.

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