‘The Office’ Follow Up ‘The Paper’ Drops Season 1 Trailer & Photos

Even though Dunder Mifflin will not be returning to TV, there will be little drops of The Office sprinkled throughout the follow-up series, The Paper, premiering September 4 on Peacock with four episodes. With two new episodes to follow every Thursday through September 25.

The show’s first trailer and first-look episodic photos of the cast are available below.

The Paper, a mockumentary from Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, is set in the same universe as NBC’s Emmy-winning hit The Office and features the documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch. The crew is searching for a new subject when they discover a historic Toledo newspaper, The Truth Teller, and the eager publisher trying to revive it.

Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson) is hired as the struggling paper’s new editor-in-chief, and he has plenty of ideas to help the old periodical recapture its glory days. However, the task proves to be harder than expected. During a staff meeting, Ned learns their combined journalism experience is lacking in a major way. None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter. A third reveals he’s part of a group chat. For some reason, Ned doesn’t quit on his first day.

As luck would have it, a little piece of the past has also found its way into the present. Oscar Martinez (Oscar Nuñez), former Dunder Mifflin accountant and two-time Dundee Award winner, is back, much to his chagrin. In the trailer, Oscar is a total grouch when he reconnects with the documentary crew that followed him and his colleagues across 9 seasons, and things get ugly.

But fret not, the cameras have plenty of new characters’ lives to follow, including Esmerelda (Sabrina Impacciatore), Mare (Chelsea Frei), Detrick (Melvin Gregg), Adelola (Gbemisola Ikumelo), Adam (Alex Edelman), Nicole (Ramona Young), Ken (Tim Key), Barry (Duane Shepard Sr.), and Travis (Eric Rahill).

While watching, fans of the OG series will be unable not to guess which character is most like their favorite original characters. Let’s get the ball rolling with Impacciatore’s character being most like Michael Scott, though others may disagree.

The creators and executive producers of The Paper are Daniels and Koman. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant — who created the original British version of The Office — also exec produce along with Howard Klein, Ben Silverman and Banijay Americas (formerly Reveille). Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

First look photos are available below.