The most important resource during the creation of The Paper was an in-case-of-emergency eject button. An escape hatch. An exit clause.

However you want to describe it, for The Office co-creator Greg Daniels, it was crucial to be able to pull the plug on this first-ever “spinoff” of the series at any time: shut down production, cancel the series order, and make it so no footage sees the light of day.

The U.S. version of The Office ran 2005 to 2013 on NBC and has since found several new lives as one of the most popular—and lucrative—series on streaming. If, as the saying goes, lightning never strikes the same place twice, then imagine the unlikelihood of that lightning finding its way into a bottle once again, recapturing the comedy magic of that series.

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