The Office Reboot in the Works From Original Series Co-Creator (Report)

Dunder Mifflin may be reopening its doors.

A reboot of NBC’s long-running comedy The Office is reportedly in the works, shepherded by original series co-creator and executive producer Greg Daniels. According to Puck News, which first reported the project, the Office reboot is poised to be formally announced when the Writers Guild of America strike officially ends; the WGA and AMPTP came to a tentative deal on Sunday night that could end the strike soon, should it be ratified by the Writers Guild.

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Further details are not yet available. TVLine has reached out to NBCUniversal and Daniels’ representation for comment.

An adaptation of the U.K. sitcom of the same name, the original Office ran on NBC from 2005 to 2013, focusing on the employees at the Scranton, Pa. branch of the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company. Steve Carell led the series as socially inept Scranton branch manager Michael Scott, but departed the show near the end of its seventh season; he was replaced, to mixed reviews, by James Spader as the enigmatic Robert California. Across its nine-season run, The Office won five Emmys, including the Outstanding Comedy Series trophy in 2006. Since going off the air in 2013, the series has seen its popularity explode via streaming.

A continuation of The Office was last said to be in the works at NBC for the 2018-19 TV season. Carell would not have been involved in that revival, but TVLine exclusively reported at the time that it would be set once again at Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch and would feature a mix of new and old cast members. The project ultimately did not come to fruition.

Carell, for his part, suggested that The Office would simply not work on present-day television, largely due to his character’s inappropriate jokes about race and sexuality (among other topics) in nearly every episode.

“It might be impossible to do that show today and have people accept it the way it was accepted 10 years ago,” Carell said at the time. “So much of [Michael] was predicated on inappropriate behavior. I mean, he’s certainly not a model boss. A lot of what is depicted on that show is completely wrong-minded. That’s the point, you know? But I just don’t know how that would fly now. There’s a very high awareness of offensive things today — which is good, for sure. But at the same time, when you take a character like that too literally, it doesn’t really work.”

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