The Office spin-off reportedly in the works from Nathan For You co-creator

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Greg Daniels, the screenwriter and producer who tailored The Office for US tv, has reportedly teamed up with Nathan For You co-creator Michael Koman to develop a brand new collection set inside the similar universe as the hit sitcom.

Deadline studies that the mockumentary collection would doubtless be set in a brand new workplace with new characters, however would stay inside the similar world as the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.

The mooted follow-up to The Office US, which continues to be an enormous draw on streaming, is being developed for Universal Television however has but to obtain a inexperienced gentle.

Koman was approached due to his earlier work on the docu-reality Comedy Central collection Nathan For You, which he co-created with star Nathan Fielder, and noticed Fielder try to assist struggling firms.

Koman’s different writing credit embody Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. In 2012, he married actor Ellie Kemper, who performed naive receptionist Erin Hannon on The Office from the present’s fifth season onwards.

Last September, it was reported that Daniels was trying to reboot or revamp The Office.

The US model of The Office ran for 9 seasons from 2005 to 2013. A remake of the unique UK sitcom, the programme centred on an workplace in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Steve Carell was The Office’s fundamental star for its first seven seasons, enjoying the firm’s socially awkward however endearing boss, Michael Scott. Other main characters included gross sales govt Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), receptionist Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) and workplace disciplinarian Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson).

In 2018, a Nielsen report revealed that Netflix subscribers clocked up extra minutes watching The Office than another TV present.

Daniels has beforehand hinted at bringing the present again, however in an up to date type moderately than having the actors reprising the similar roles.

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“I can’t tell whether fans would want more of it, and when I say more of it, I don’t think it would be the same characters,” he informed Collider in 2022.

“I think it would just be sort of like an extension of the universe, you know what I mean, like the way [The] Mandalorian is like an extension of Star Wars. But I don’t know if that would be something people would want or not, it’s hard to tell.”

Last month, Dakota Johnson recalled the “weird dynamics” on the set of The Office finale, saying: “No one wanted to talk to me.”