Huge news,aiman tino video lucah twitter The Officefans: Peacock's highly anticipated spin-off of the beloved workplace comedy officially has a name and release date. Get ready to obsess over The Paper, premiering this September.
SEE ALSO: 'The Office' spinoff: Everything you need to knowCreated by The Office showrunner Greg Daniels and Michael Koman (Nathan for You), The Paper trades Scranton, Pennsylvania for Toledo, Ohio, where the same documentary crew who followed Dunder Mifflin's employees has set their sights on a new subject: a struggling local newspaper. Its publisher (Domhnall Gleeson, About Time), lacks the budget for full-time reporters, so he turns to untrained volunteers in a last-ditch effort to revive the paper.
During NBCUniversal's May 12 upfront presentation, Peacock released the first image from the series, pictured above.
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The image shows Gleeson standing on a desk, attempting to rally the newsroom — which includes a familiar face to anylovers of The Office out there. That's right, The Paper will feature the return of a beloved character from The Office, and it's none other than Oscar Martinez (Oscar Nuñez).
Nuñez announced his return alongside co-stars Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus) at the upfront presentation. He shared that after The Office, he told Daniels he could see Oscar moving to a bigger city.
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“Greg heard me and moved Oscar to Toledo, Ohio, which has three times the population of Scranton, so it’s nice to be heard," Nuñez joked.
In addition to Gleeson, Nuñez, and Impacciatore, The Paper stars Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Ramona Young and Tim Key.
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