<em>The Paper</em> Already Has a Season 2 Renewal

Twelve years after The Office lowered the curtain on the hit sitcom, NBC has finally figured out a way to give fans more stories from the beloved Scranton paper company. Sure, we’re not exactly passing the time around the watercooler with Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute again, but The Office co-creator Greg Daniels is back with a spin-off series—titled The Paper—that is a worthy successor to Dunder Mifflin's workplace comedy.

The new show follows The Office's documentary crew as they turn their attention toward a midwestern newspaper—The Toledo Truth Teller—that is desperately attempting to regain their journalistic integrity. (Everyone’s favorite accountant, Oscar, ties the two series together as he crunches numbers for the failing newspaper and bemoans the documentary crew’s return.)

The series also stars Domhnall Gleeson (The Patient) as the Truth-Teller's wide-eyed new editor in chief, Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus) as a Michael Scott-esque workplace troublemaker, and Chelsea Frei (Poker Face) as the paper's only employee with a background in reporting. All ten episodes premiere exclusively on Peacock on Wednesday, September 4.

If you manage to binge The Paper as fast as your twentieth rewatch of The Office, it shouldn’t be too long before the series returns with new episodes. Ahead of the series debut, Peacock has already renewed The Paper for a second season. Gleeson and Impacciatore revealed the good news while promoting the series on NBC’s Today, which will allow The Paper to return for season 2 as early as next fall.

“We definitely have ideas,” co-creator Greg Daniels told Variety before the announcement. “It’ll be interesting to see what the audience thinks. We’ve gotten really good feedback from people inside the company and journalists and friends, but you never know what the broader world of Office fans are going to think of it.”