While The office it ended 11 years ago, it never went off the air. Thanks to distribution and streaming, it remains as popular as ever. So no surprise here: a spinoff is in the works.
According to Variety, Greg Danielswho developed the American version of The office (based on the British sitcom of the same name by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant) is working with Michael Koman, the co-creator of Nathan for youin “a new series in the world of Dunder Mifflin”.
They state that “it is not a reboot of the The office but it’s set in the same universe, which means it would probably be set in a different office, with all new characters.”
In other words… what if… there was… other desk?
Just think about it. You can imagine? A second office. Wow. This could change everything.
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While the British Desk produced just two 14-episode seasons, plus a special two-part Christmas finale (and Gervais later revisited the concept in a spin-off film), the American version of The office It has become a complete transmission juggernaut. It aired for nine seasons and produced 200 episodes, helping to launch the careers of countless modern comedy stars along the way.
The American Desk the series, starring Steve Carrell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer and BJ Novak, along with many others, is still so popular on streaming that when NBC launched its Peacock service a few years ago, they categorized their unpaid and paid tiers according to how many episodes of The office could you watch. (A free subscription got you a few episodes; the higher monthly fee got you access to the entire show, ad-free.) So I would expect any Desk a spinoff that felt like a true successor to the show would be a big deal.
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