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The spinoff of The Office is here! And the staff of The Paper are also (unintentionally) funny

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Dunder Mifflin has left the building. No, really. The camera crew that documented the paper company’s Diversity Day, Pretzel Day and countless other days returns to Scranton, Pennsylvania — but the business has been bought by Toledo, Ohio’s paper conglomerate Enervate. And so the hugely beloved sitcom The Office gives way to The Paper (Peacock, Sept. 4), also from Greg Daniels. The corporate culture on display is at the Toledo Truth Teller, a Midwestern newspaper on its last legs. (They have to share office space with the Softee’s toilet paper team.) Let’s meet the staff!

1 NED SAMPSON (Domhnall Gleeson) The new editor in chief — a former cardboard salesman — has an unwavering dedication to reviving print journalism that almost trumps his lack of experience. He is also as close to Steve Carell’s enthusiastic and lovable Michael Scott as we are going to get.