Winter Warmer Watchlist - The Paper - Season One

The Paper is the latest mockumentary sitcom series created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman. 

The series is a follow-up and spinoff to the American mockumentary series The Office, which originally ran on NBC from 2005 to 2013. 

Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, Melvin Gregg, Chelsea Frei, Ramona Young, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Tim Key, Eric Rahill, Allan Havey, Nancy Lenehan, Molly Ephraim and Tracy Letts along with Oscar Nunez would be reprising his role as Oscar Martinez, from The Office.

The series from Peacock, landed in Australia on Binge, last week. Ahead of the series premiere, the series was renewed for a second season.

In Toledo, Ohio, the same documentary crew that followed the workers at Dunder Mifflin's Scranton, Pennsylvania branch twenty years earlier, focuses its efforts on the Toledo Truth-Teller, a historic but declining Midwestern newspaper trying to resurrect itself with volunteer reporters.

In episode one we meet the motley crew.

Bob Vance of Vance Refrigeration explains how Dunder Mifflin has gone out of business and its trademark was sold in 2019 to Enervate, who owns the Toledo Truth-Teller, a paper company where Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson) is about to start his first shift, which is run by Esmeralda Grand (Sabrina Impacciatore).

This was an easy, breezy, quick comedy watch. All ten episodes just breeze by. It gives a (slightly) more adult Abbott Elementary vibe. 

Today Binge (along with Foxtel) will announce their 2026 schedule. This will likely be on it, along with other new (and some) returning Peacock titles. I am really to see the fate of some local series like the currently airing, The Twelve, Strife, along with if The Real Housewives of Sydney will actually continue.

Time will tell. For now on Binge, this fun, little comedy, The Paper streams all ten episodes now.