The Paper is set at the fictional Toledo Truth Teller newspaper in Ohio.

While the American version of The Office was very popular, both in its initial nine-season run and its streaming afterlife, it’s not a sitcom that changed any national conversations.

The 2005-13 TV comedy made stars of Steve Carell and John Krasinski – but it didn’t break barriers in terms of representation or subject matter like an All in the Family or Will and Grace.

Indeed, though it certainly satirized corporate life at times, its underlying depiction of a workplace as a kind of second family was far from a threat to the forces of capitalism.

By contrast, The Paper , a spinoff series premiering in Canada on StackTV and Showcase this week, is also a gentle-hearted, office-set, mockumentary-style sitcom

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