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The next series in 'The Office' world officially has a title — and a premiere date. Set in the same universe as the hit NBC mockumentary, the spinoff series will be called 'The Paper' and follow a publisher, played by Domhnall Gleeson, and his employees at a dying small-town newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. The series is set to premiere in September.

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00:00Peacock is returning to the world of The Office, but not how you might expect.

00:04Oh my god! Okay, it's happening! Everybody stay calm!

00:06What's the procedure, everyone? What's the procedure?

00:08Stay f***ing calm!

00:10Set in the same universe as the hit NBC mockumentary, the spin-off series will be called

00:15The Paper and follow a publisher played by Donald Gleeson and his employees at a dying

00:19small-town newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. The series, from former Office showrunner Greg Daniels and

00:25Michael Komen, is set to premiere in September. Peacock also released the first image from the

00:30series, which also shows Oscar Nunez, who will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez from the earlier

00:35series. During NBCUniversal's Upfront presentation, Nunez talks about having a conversation with

00:41Daniels about moving his character to a more cosmopolitan environment, saying, quote,

00:46Greg heard me and moved Oscar to Toledo, Ohio, which has three times the population of Scranton,

00:51so it's nice to be heard. In a previous interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Daniels revealed

00:56that the paper will employ much of the same crew that worked on the former series and that he's

01:00excited to work on another mockumentary. For more updates on this story, be sure to head over to

01:04thehollywoodreporter.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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