‘The Paper’: Everything We Know About ‘The Office’ Follow-Up Series So Far

The Office-verse is about to get even bigger. In 2024, Deadline reported that Greg Daniels, the producer responsible for Americanizing Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s beloved original British series The Office, had opened up a development room for a potential follow-up series.

It won’t be the reunion that die-hards have long been hoping for, though. Instead, it will be a follow-up series that takes place in the same universe as Dunder Mifflin. New details are still unfolding, but here’s what we know so far.

1. Greg Daniels and Michael Koman are leading the project.
2. Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore star in The Paper.
3. It will follow a failing newspaper in Toledo, Ohio.
4. Daniels describes the premise as “fruitful.”
5. One Office alum is returning.
6. The Paper will stream on Peacock in September 2025.

Greg Daniels and Michael Koman are leading the project.

Per Variety, Daniels, who also co-created King of the Hill and Parks and Recreation (itself very The Office-esque), has teamed up with Michael Koman, who will help him lead the project. Koman’s credits include writing for Late Night with Conan O’Brien and co-creating Nathan for You along with Nathan Fielder. Koman is also married to The Office alum Ellie Kemper, who played endearingly innocent receptionist Erin Hannon beginning in season 5.

Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore star in The Paper.

In April 2024, The Hollywood Reporter named two cast members: The White Lotus’s Sabrina Impacciatore and Star Wars villain Domhnall Gleeson. Daniels and Koman reportedly cast a ”wide net” for the show’s stars.

Impacciatore appeared on the Sicily-set second season of The White Lotus, playing Valentina, the resort’s tightly wound manager, who has an unrequited crush on one of her staffers. Her work garnered her an Emmy nomination, which she lost to her costar Jennifer Coolidge. A graduate of New York’s legendary Actors Studio, Impacciatore also appeared in the 2001 Italian film The Last Kiss (which Tony Goldwyn remade into a Zach Braff movie of the same name in 2006) and The Passion of the Christ.

Gleeson, the son of beloved character actor Brendan Gleeson (Gangs of New York, The Banshees of Inisherin), has appeared alongside his father in the Harry Potter series, playing Bill Weasley in the last two films. After nabbing the lead in Richard Curtis’s About Time, he scored plum roles in Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, Ex Machina, Brooklyn, and The Revenant. Gleeson is perhaps best known as hissable, oft-humiliated General Hux in the most recent Star Wars trilogy. He recently received an Emmy nomination for the FX series The Patient.

It will follow a failing newspaper in Toledo, Ohio.

Along with the confirmation that the new series would stream on Peacock, an official logline was also released: “The documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch is in search of a new subject when they discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters.”

Gleeson plays the publisher of the paper, which is called The Truth Teller, which is located in Toledo, Ohio. “My character has the unwavering optimistic belief that he can turnThe Truth Tellerto the glory of its heyday,” Gleeson said at the series’s upfront presentation. “And, if you’re wondering, I will not be using this Irish accent.”

Daniels describes the premise as “fruitful.”

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Daniels explained that the show is “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. They’re completely untrained and don’t know what they’re doing. 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.”

One Office alum is returning.

Oscar Nuñez will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez in The Paper. “I told Mr. Greg Daniels that if Oscar came back, he would probably be living in a more bustling, cosmopolitan city,” Nuñez said. “Greg heard me and he moved Oscar to Toledo, Ohio—which has three times the population of Scranton. So, it was nice to be heard.”

It’s unclear if any other cast members of The Office will appear, although Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, who have co-hosted the Office Ladies podcast since 2019, confirmed that they had visited The Paper set. The U.S. Office cast has frequently reunited off-screen, and occasionally on-screen too: Six members of the Dunder Mifflin team—Rainn Wilson, Craig Robinson, Jenna Fischer, Creed Bratton, Kate Flannery, and Brian Baumgartner—also got back together for an AT&T Business ad. The spot is for Wilson’s new line of luxury pillows, called “Dream with Rainn,” which feature an embedded speaker that allows the actor to lull one to sleep with his gentle patter. Michael Scott himself,Steve Carell, also worked with John Krasinski, the erstwhile Jim Halpert, for the film IF.

The Paper will stream on Peacock in September 2025.

In May 2024, it was reported that Peacock had officially given the series a greenlight for its first season; this makes sense, as the American iteration of The Office lives on the same streaming network. Now we know that The Paper will begin airing on the streaming service in September 2025.

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A version of this story ran in 2024; it has been updated for 2025.