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1 minute ago, Scary Stranger said:

The office thing is a different company/cast but the same formula. 

Yeah, it's based on a struggling smaller town newspaper.

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The closest we'll get to a Wire remake is We Run This City. If Simon isn't attached, it's not the Wire. His deal with HBO is over. 

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33 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

So they've got an Irish guy in his early 40s and an Italian woman in her mid-50s to lead a cast working at a "historic Midwestern newspaper". OK. 

Hopefully they hired people that have heard of acting, so they can pretend to be people other than themselves, otherwise this thing could be in trouble!

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4 minutes ago, ultimaton said:

Hopefully they hired people that have heard of acting, so they can pretend to be people other than themselves, otherwise this thing could be in trouble!

Or maybe it’s set in the 1840s?

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2 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

Yep to both, as a mash-up. Undercover sting in Scranton to take down Prison Mike.

I'm in for the scene where Creed has to negotiate with Vondas over the price of a ream of cardstock.

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I’m always for more content. It could suck. In fact, it’s probably likely it sucks. But there’s always a chance it could be good, which benefits everyone. Is anyone mad Dune got rebooted? Battlestar Galatica? Batman? True Grit? Yes, Red Dawn sucked. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory blew. Road House was laughable. Who cares. 

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The Office should have ended with the Season 7 finale Goodbye, Michael. Heartfelt, touching, and the scene with Michael and Pam in the airport would have been a Casablanca like walk off. 

Instead we got 2 very uneven seasons that damn near ruined the show. I believe there was a movement in the writers room for Pam to leave Jim for the documentary cameraman. That would have definitely ruined the show. The finale was solid because it was largely Dwight and Jim based and they brought back Steve Carrell. 
 

The Farm in Season 9 was a back door pilot for the Dwight spinoff that NBC passed before the episode aired. Not a great episode, but promising. I feel like  we got robbed of more shows in The Office universe. The Farm’s writer blamed the spinoff getting shelved on Comcast, but let’s be honest, Seasons 8 and 9 sucking killed the spinoff. 

I’m very OK with a The Office reboot, and I’ll keep an open mind. 

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They decided that there weren't enough brutally fucking uninteresting and insipid 20 and 30 somethings in this current generation and as a result we needed to reboot The Office for this next generation.

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8 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

I tried watching Abbott Elementary once and it was basically the office at an inner city school. 

And Parks and Rec was The Office in small city government (Leslie’s character in the first season felt like an imitation of Michael Scott’s pure cringe but didn’t work and they changed the character which helped enormously). Both are (were) pretty good. Not sure why this one is being produced as an official “spinoff.” Sounds like the only thing tying them together is the documentary company? I guess as a newspaper it opens the door for a bunch of cameos from Dunder Mifflin people. Sounds lame as fuck.

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4 hours ago, 'stache said:

And Parks and Rec was The Office in small city government (Leslie’s character in the first season felt like an imitation of Michael Scott’s pure cringe but didn’t work and they changed the character which helped enormously). Both are (were) pretty good. Not sure why this one is being produced as an official “spinoff.” Sounds like the only thing tying them together is the documentary company? I guess as a newspaper it opens the door for a bunch of cameos from Dunder Mifflin people. Sounds lame as fuck.

Probably because they are desperate for viewers to save their dying streaming service

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Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan from The Watch seem optimistic. I’m not aware of them having screeners, they didn’t mention any, so I believe they’re going solely off the trailer. 
 

Grain of salt as these guys have slipped significantly. Greenwald only wants to watch foreign art house films and openly disdains popular culture. Ryan only suggests Netflix shows from Argentina or Denmark. They really have lost their way. From Breaking Bad recaps to whatever this current shit is. 

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office remake has been done.

I've actually watched some of it.  I’m not terribly familiar with India but the dialogue is about half-English and half-Hindi.  It’s unsettling. 

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9 hours ago, futureman said:

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office remake has been done.

I've actually watched some of it.  I’m not terribly familiar with India but the dialogue is about half-English and half-Hindi.  It’s unsettling. 

is this about a telemarketing company? 

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On 8/7/2025 at 12:42 PM, Scary Stranger said:

 

It seems like it going to suck. 

The Office US version was a sort of reboot of the UK version with Ricky Gervais, but they did a great job of making it distinct from the original. I have watched both a few times, and each has their moments. One thing the US version did so much better than the UK was creating lovable characters and relationships that help propel the show forward. The long multi-season arcs of friendships, romances, and personal growth of the characters is something I think the UK series missed by focusing mostly on dry comedy. (Not a bad thing, just different) Recreating that is going to be a challenge for any show, and trying to trade off the past success of another show feels cheap and hollow. 

Aside from Oscar, is there anything tying this new show to the old one? Being a newspaper, they could have endless callbacks to the old show for single episode cameos for articles. Are we going to see Andy and Erin show up with a MENSA baby? Is Kevin's band Scrantonicity 2 going to get an album deal and an interview? Will Gabe finally be caught and arrested as the Scranton Strangler? Does Holly become their new HR person? Do we get to see Karen from behind? Will Creed's obituary be published by this paper after he fakes his own death? 

So many possibilities, and I don't really want any of it. Seasons 8 and 9 were bad enough. 

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