Dunder Mifflin became a household name in comedy thanks to the sitcom The Office. After years of chronicling the lives of Dunder Mifflin employees, the documentary crew has found a new subject in The Paper, a new Peacock sitcom and follow-up series to The Office.
“I hope it’s not too disruptive to have me come in and sort of shake everything up,” Domhnall Gleeson’s Ned Sampson says in the trailer. Ned joins the Toledo Truth Teller as its new editor-in-chief. The struggling Midwestern newspaper needs a fresh look, with Ned hoping to revitalize the company.
However, Ned faces an uphill battle to prominence because his staff is severely inexperienced. One staffer says he once wrote a paper in junior high, while another writer lists tweeting as his experience.
Nonetheless, Ned remains steadfast in his mission to transform the Toledo Truth Teller into a respectable organization.
At the end of the trailer, fans of The Office will recognize Oscar Martinez (Oscar Nuñez). “I’m not agreeing to any of this,” Oscar passionately tells the documentary crew.
The Paper’s cast features Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Ramona Young, Tim Key, and Oscar Nuñez. Guest stars include Eric Rahill, Tracy Letts, Molly Ephraim, Mo Welch, Allan Havey, Duane Shepard Sr., Nate Jackson, and Nancy Lenehan.
Greg Daniels, who developed the American version of The Office, co-created The Paper with Nathan For You’s Michael Koman. The Office ran for nine seasons on NBC from 2005 to 2013. It remains one of the most popular and beloved sitcoms of the 21st century.
Daniels also directed the pilot. Executive producers include Daniels, Koman, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Howard Klein, Ben Silverman, and Banijay Americas.
The Paper premieres on Peacock with four episodes on September 4, 2025. Two new episodes will stream every Thursday through September 25.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
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YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.