# The Paper (2025)

> A documentary crew that once filmed Dunder Mifflin turns its cameras on a struggling historic Toledo newspaper and its eager publisher.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/168883

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 20
- Episode runtime: 30 min
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: comedy
- Created by: Michael Koman, Greg Daniels
- Network: Peacock
- Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Ramona Young, Tim Key
- TMDB rating: 6.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32159809/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: wry, cringe-tinged, gently sincere, deadpan, hopeful

## What critics say

Audiences find the spin-off's mockumentary format and warm ensemble charm more engaging in its second season, though the reception is mixed overall.

## Synopsis

The Paper (2025-present) is an American mockumentary sitcom created by Michael Koman and Greg Daniels for Peacock, a spin-off and follow-up to The Office. The documentary crew that once immortalized the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin is looking for a new subject and finds it in a historic Toledo newspaper, The Truth Teller, and its eager publisher Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson), who is determined to revive the struggling paper. Around him are editor Esmeralda Grand (Sabrina Impacciatore), reporter Mare Pritti (Chelsea Frei), and staff members Detrick Moore (Melvin Gregg) and Oscar Martinez (Oscar Nuñez), whose lives unfold through direct-to-camera confessionals and awkward office encounters. The engine is the gap between Ned's earnest optimism and the grinding reality of a shrinking local paper with too few readers and too little money. Each episode is built from small newsroom crises, staff rivalries and failed promotional schemes, and the show runs as one continuing story across two seasons of ten episodes each. Set in a modest Ohio newsroom, the series keeps the observational deadpan of its predecessor while adding a warmer, more hopeful undercurrent about local journalism. Its tone is wry, cringe-tinged and gently sincere, and fans of The Office, Parks and Recreation and The Newsroom will find the same mix of workplace humiliation and affection for stubborn institutions.

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