“The acclaimed comedy collection continues to achieve reputation and construct new generations of followers on Peacock,” stated NBCU President Lisa Katz
It was inevitable. Practically because it went off the air, followers have been asking for a return of The Workplace. Watch out what you would like for, as a result of a form of new model of The Workplace is returning to tv. Streaming tv.
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The Workplace, the American model of The Workplace, ran on NBC from 2005 to 2013. The present was so well-liked a spin-off was introduced in 2008 (that spin-off by no means occurred and have become the equally unbelievable Parks and Recreation). Since going off the air the recognition of the extraordinarily bingeable comedy has skyrocketed.
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‘The Workplace’ is coming again, form of, as a result of it’s simply good enterprise.
On Jan. 12, 2021 Selection reported that The Workplace was by far probably the most streamed present of 2020. Within the first yr of the pandemic, individuals simply needed to verify in with their TV friends caught at work. Not digital work, however in an workplace. 57 billion minutes of the present have been streamed. The following hottest present was Gray’s Anatomy, one other present that includes individuals at work, with 39.4 billion minutes.
Gray’s Anatomy was additionally on broadcast tv in 2020. Hell, it nonetheless is on broadcast tv. However not The Workplace. Whereas Michael, Dwight, Pam, Jim, Andy and everybody else will not be coming again to TV, a brand new/reboot of The Workplace is.
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On Could 8, 2024 Peacock, the present residence to each episode of The Workplace, introduced one thing which will please some Workplace followers. The press launch titled, “Peacock Declares New Comedy Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman: The untitled collection produced by Common Tv takes place at a day by day newspaper and is ready in the identical universe as The Workplace” doesn’t promise a brand new Workplace, however a present within the Workplace universe.
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The brand new present shouldn’t be precisely a reboot or one other season of ‘The Workplace.’
The press launch makes it clear that the present will probably be ‘filmed’ by the identical people who ‘filmed’ the fictional documentary the oldsters behind the digital camera in The Workplace have been making. “The documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton department is in quest of a brand new topic once they uncover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the writer making an attempt to revive it with volunteer reporters.”
Why now? Recognition! “It’s been greater than ten years because the closing episode of The Workplace aired on NBC, and the acclaimed comedy collection continues to achieve reputation and construct new generations of followers on Peacock,” stated Lisa Katz, President, NBCUniversal Leisure.
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So no Dunder Mifflin, no Michael, Dwight, Pam, Jim, Andy, and many others. on this new collection. However the one introduced forged are fairly nice: Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore. Domhnall just lately co-starred with Steve Carell in 2022’s The Affected person on FX. The present was nominated for a Peabody. You could acknowledge Sabrina from her glorious efficiency on The White Lotus, a task that gained her an Emmy nomination.
Sorry to any Workplace followers hoping to verify in with their favourite characters. If you wish to do that you will have to simply preserve streaming the 201 episodes, hearken to the Workplace Girls podcast or be pleased with the 2018 SNL mini reunion throughout Steve Carell’s monologue.