It was one of the biggest shows on the planet by the time it ended, so it really shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Peacock has its eyes on fans of The Office. The US remake of the short-lived but highly-praised UK sitcom went on to become a beast of its own, and made stars out of a good few of its cast.
Now, many of the people that worked on the show are back with a new project set in the same world – a fictional reality in which The Office was a documentary series, not a sitcom, and in which the people it filmed are all real. The Paper is coming to Peacock in the US, and Sky in the UK, aiming to bring that same fly-on-the-wall style to a slightly different environment: a failing local newspaper.
