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This is FRESH AIR. The Peacock streaming service recently unveiled all 10 episodes of its new comedy series called "The Paper." It's a sequel of sorts to NBC's long-running sitcom "The Office," with an almost completely new cast of characters but with the same mockumentary workplace format. Our TV critic David Bianculli has this review.

DAVID BIANCULLI, BYLINE: "The Paper" arrives with an unusually long and impressive TV lineage. It starts with the original British version of "The Office," which premiered in 2001 on the BBC, starring Ricky Gervais as paper company executive David Brent. That entire series consisted of a dozen episodes and a movie-length finale.

But after "The Office" closed up shop, its series concept was sold to NBC, where it was developed for Americ

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