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The camera crew moves into the building and set up under the fluorescent lights, pan across a sea of messy desks and budget-priced PCs.

When the employees show up, they film the meetings, the breakroom gossip, the occasional

meltdown from a middle manager, and then in between those scenes, they sit down with the

employees for quick, informal interviews.

It's a premise for a show you've probably seen, the office.

The sitcom started in the UK

where it was a smash, then when Greg Daniels adapted it for American audiences, well, you know,

it changed TV forever. It launched the careers of a bunch of actors and writers inspired

thousands and thousands more. But that premise I just described, it's also the premise for the

paper, which is a brand new show you can catch on NBC and Peacock. The paper was also created by

Greg Daniels. Instead of a paper company, the paper follows a newspaper, the Toledo Truth Teller,

which, as the name implies, is in Toledo, Ohio, not Scranton, Pennsylvania, like the office.

The paper features a few other familiar names and faces. Oscar Nunez and Paul Lieberstein, for example.

NBC says the show operates in the same universe that the office did, for what it's worth.

One of the new faces we see is that of Adam Cooper, played by my guest Alex Edelman.

Adam is an accountant and a reporter at the paper.

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