The Office Reboot In The Works, Original US Showrunner Returning
The Office Reboot In The Works, Original US Showrunner Returning
It's finally happening!
A The Office reboot is reportedly in the works, with the original American showrunner attached to return.
The news about the reboot came in the context of mentioning all the projects and deals that are going to be announced once the writers' strike officially ends. There's no word yet on casting.
it would be set in the same overall universe but not necessarily feature the same characters. However, some The Office cast members, including John Krasinski and Mindy Kaling, have expressed they’d be open to revisiting their famous roles if the circumstances were right.
Cool, can't wait for the first season to drop, everyone be pissed that it's not the original office, and then the series is abruptly cancelled after two seasons if they even make it to season two.
Creativity is truly dead in the west
Creativity is alive and kicking. You’ll just find it on YT by a small time content creator and not a Hollywood/TV media business.
What channels on YouTube? YouTube has felt like AI generated content for a long time, since so many videos will follow the pattern of being a stretched out length, sponsor drop, and begs for likes and subscribe because of what determines algorithm visibility. Creativity feels like it's all suppressed with searches showing content from the same big channels too.
Feel like Rocket Jump with VGHS was the last era of channels attempting to make original TV/movie content. YouTube feels like it's filled with mainly talking heads these days. Not really know of many channels that tried for TV style episodic videos like Rocket Jump did with VGHS.
Oh god why even
Cash grab or return to office propaganda? Why not both.
And they still wonder why TV is a dying medium.
The office isn’t even that old….is it?
The article mentioned it ended in 2013, so that's about 10 years ago; but I don't think studios reboot franchises because there's a new story to tell in the modern era, I think it's because studios sense there's money left to be milked from the series.
With Greg Daniels attached, I hope it's not just a blatant cash grab, but it's hard to far l say, this early on.
It ended over 10 years ago
If dating apps are an indication, this will appeal to 80% of women in america!
Office workplaces aren't the same as they used to it be, it wouldnt work. Just make more seasons, show us where the characters are now.
Don't reboot it.
I think that would still be considered a reboot as well (see the iCarly reboot or the new Frasier reboot as examples of reboots that follow the cast some number of years down the line).
I would personally prefer a fresh cast over a continuation, though. With any continuation there are going to be missing cast members who's absence is felt, which would not be the case with a fresh cast. Additionally a fresh cast gives you room to have a new plot from scratch instead of being constrained to an old show where you have ~10 years of established lore that you need to be careful not to contradict or retread.
Hopefully the show holds up either way, though, as I know there are fans of the original who would be quite disappointed if the quality was poor.
This doesn't feel like a thing that needed to happen
it would be set in the same overall universe but not necessarily feature the same characters.
So ... it would mention Dunder Mifflin or the Scranton branch in the first episode, then go on about its business? What is The Office universe??
The Office Universe? Somebody needs to stop these people. The Office is supposed to be our universe. It's supposed to be a documentary of a normal office that people work at. The heck are they on about?
Not necessarily. Can still be the same branch we all know and love but different characters. Think of how many staff changes, retirements, etc happen in real workplaces over 10 years.
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If it's something akin to How I Met Your Father, I could be on board. Not so much in style or tone surely, but taking the same skeleton that worked in the original and applying it to new people (and in this case, to a new location too). I think it would be a bummer to just go back to Dunder Mifflin Scranton and rehash all those characters. Workplace comedy isn't so far out there, real workplaces have become even more absurd over the last ten years, and if it has light callbacks to the original but can do its own thing too, then I'll check it out.
That's the optimist in me. We'll see how hard he gets bodyslammed when this comes to fruition!
It's almost certainly going to just inundate the viewer with canned punchlines about work from home, COVID, and Zoom.
Literally nothing new and nothing even funny.