Greg Daniels and Michael Koman to Work on Potential New 'The Office' Series | 424N5UP | 2024-03-23 13:08:01
The long-awaited enlargement to The Office universe has taken one step nearer to reality.
Greg Daniels was tasked with creating a new collection set in The Office universe, and he has tapped Michael Koman to hitch him, Deadline reported on Wednesday, March 20. The collection, from Common Tv, remains in improvement and there's still no guarantee it's going to come to fruition.
The collection can be a follow-up to The Workplace, not an actual reboot, Deadline reported. While some familiar faces from the American collection might pop up, this mockumentary-style show can be set in a special workplace and would comply with totally different characters. So don't anticipate a return to Scranton, or even, necessarily, to the Dunder Mifflin paper firm.
Daniels, who originally labored with NBC to adapt The Workplace for an American viewers, opened up a improvement room to work on the undertaking in January. The U.S. model of the BBC hit comedy premiered in 2005, starring Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, B.J. Novak, Jenna Fischer and others who rose to stardom in the course of the present's nine-season run.
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Koman is not any stranger to the genre. He cocreated docu-reality collection Nathan For You alongside Nathan Fielder, guiding the hit collection via four seasons on Comedy Central. He has also labored on The Colbert Report, MadTV and Late Night time With Conan O'Brien. Koman and Daniels both acquired their begins as writers on Saturday Night Live.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Koman is married to Ellie Kemper, who joined The Office forged in its fifth season.
In addition to The Workplace, Daniels cocreated hits like Parks and Recreation and King of the Hill. He was also a author for The Simpsons and wrote the basic episode "Bart Sells His Soul."
Daniels has said a number of occasions that he does not need to reboot the present using the identical premise or characters, however NBCUniversal has long been taken with persevering with The Office universe not directly.
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Novak, who was additionally a author on the present, previously told Deadline that fans shouldn't get their hopes up for an all-out reunion, both.
"Undoubtedly you wouldn't get everybody back collectively, that ship has sailed," he stated.
Greater than a decade after The Workplace ended, the show stays a staple of American television and streaming. It at present airs in syndication on Comedy Central and Freeform. Fischer and her costar Angela Kinsey also host the rewatch podcast "Office Women," which has continued to offer the collection life as they recap an episode per week.
The Office is at present obtainable to stream on Peacock.
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