A piece of Toledo, Ohio came to Manhattan on September 3 when Esquire hosted an exclusive screening and Q&A for The Paper , which debuts on Peacock today. (Already binged all ten episodes? (Don't worry— second season is already on the way.)
At a event held inside Hearst Tower, attendees were shown the first episode of The Paper , the new spin-off series of The Office created by Greg Daniels. The scripted comedy follows the daily lives of journalists at a small-town newspaper that is struggling to keep afloat in the digital age.
Gleeson stars in The Paper as Ned Sampson, an idealistic new hire who joins the (fictional) Toledo Truth-Teller as its editor-in-chief. His plans to reinvigorate the paper with good ol'-fashioned journalism places him at odds with the paper's existin