If you loved The Office in Scranton, Pa., you’ll be happy to know The Paper is coming to Toledo.
Set to premiere on Peacock in September, the makers of The Office created The Paper in the same rockumentary style, this time following a struggling newspaper (The Toledo Truth Teller) in Toledo, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Greg Daniels, show runner for The Office and now The Paper told The Hollywood Reporter the new snow will employ much of the same crew that worked on the former series.
“It’s 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,” Daniels told the Reporter. “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.”
Ben Smith • May 15, 2025 at 8:51 pm
Sounds Great!!