The Office spin-off contrasts journalists' self-image as a pillar of democracy with what the job often entails.

“Oh, my god! OK. It’s happening! Everybody stay calm! Everybody stay calm! Stay f***ing calm!” That famous alarm, memorably sounded by Steve Carell’s beloved sitcom boss Michael Scott, likely rang ...

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“The Paper,” premiering Thursday on Peacock, is a belated spinoff of “The Office,” much as Peacock is a sort of spinoff of NBC, where the former show aired on Thursdays from 2005 to 2013. In the new ...

“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu is a fantasy short story that incorporates Asian American struggles with magical realism. In 2012, this renowned story won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award and World ...

Peacock attempted to recapture the magic of The Office in The Paper, a spin-off series set at a local newspaper. The mockumentary follows the travails of the Toledo Truth Teller, a once-thriving paper ...