Peacock’s The Workplace spin-off arrives this September

The Paper, a brand new spin-off of The Workplace set at a small Ohio newspaper, will premiere solely on Peacock in September, according to a post from the streaming service’s X account. Contemplating NBCUniversal’s streaming service has largely existed as a devoted The Workplace and Parks & Recreation rewatch device, it is a fairly massive get.

The brand new collection “options the documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton department,” however this time seems to be at a special trade — on this case, journalism. The Paper covers “a historic Toledo newspaper, The Fact Teller, and the keen writer that’s attempting to revive it,” in response to a press release from NBCUniversal’s Upfront presentation.

Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina) and Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus) star alongside Oscar Nuñez, who’s reprising his position as Oscar from The Workplace, following a lateral profession transfer that finds his character because the accountant for a struggling newspaper. The Paper may be very explicitly described as being “from the universe of The Workplace,” although, so it is doable the connections to the earlier collection do not finish there.

The Paper was co-created by Greg Daniels, the creator of the US model of The Workplace, and Michael Koman, an government producer and author on Nathan for You. NBCUniversal hasn’t shared a selected date for when the collection will premiere, past that it’s going to land in September.

Like most streaming providers, Peacock launched with splashy status TV reveals, however has frequently struggled to search out authentic content material that retains subscribers round past its again catalog of traditional sitcoms and actuality reveals. Streaming rights to the Olympics and bizarre experiments just like the “AI vs. a nun” drama Mrs. Davis positively attraction to somebody (me, primarily), however it hasn’t produced explosive development in Peacock’s subscriber numbers. Per NBCUniversal’s last earnings report, Peacock has grown from 36 million paid subscribers on the finish of 2024 to 41 million in March 2025, however it’s nonetheless a money-losing operation. The Paper looks like a safer guess to maintain present subscribers joyful and draw lapsed The Workplace followers again in.