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Daily Mirror
07-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
The Office US creators drop 'nostalgic' trailer for The Paper with cameo from original star
The Paper follows in the footsteps of The Office US, with Dunder Mifflin's documentary crew now taking on a new project. The Paper has released its official trailer and it features an original The Office US star, much to fans' delight. Twelve year after fans said an emotional goodbye to Steve Carrell as Michael Scott and the rest of the team at Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch, The Office US creator Greg Daniels is back in action with a new comedy on the way. Teaming up with comedian and writer Michael Koman, The Paper is another mockumentary which sees the same documentary crew from The Office US focus on a new subject in a historic Midwestern newspaper. The Paper trailer from The Office US creators This is a breaking showbiz story and is being constantly updated. Please refresh the page regularly to get the latest news, pictures and videos.
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘The Office' Star Reveals When They Knew Steve Carrell Would Leave the Show
Dunder Mifflin's Scranton office struggled to find its footing without Michael Scott at the helm — and so did the cast of The Office. In a recent interview with Josh Peck on his Good Guys podcast, Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight Schrute on the 2005 hit, admitted to the chaos that followed Steve Carrell's departure from his role as the regional manager of the beloved paper company. "When Steve left, then it was a little bit chaotic of trying to figure out the tone of the show and who's the lead and, how are we telling these stories without, you know, the comic engine of the show, which is Michael Scott?" Wilson said. But no one was surprised when Carrell left the show to focus on other projects after spending six years starring as the lead on The Office. After leaving the show, Carrell went on to star in hit movies such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Get Smart, and Crazy, Stupid, Love. "We knew it was coming for a long time," Wilson said. Though it wasn't completely surprising, Carrell's departure from the show on "Goodbye, Michael" was still a bittersweet tear-jerker. "There actually wasn't a dry eye in the house. It was really sad. It was very difficult to make comedy when there was a heaviness hanging over the proceedings," Wilson had previously said to Entertainment Weekly. As for Wilson, his career has seen many successes since The Office ended. He's taken on roles in Adventure Time, The Meg, and Star Trek: Discovery, among others. He also co-founded Lide Haiti, an education nonprofit benefitting Haitian girls in underserved communities. 'The Office' Star Reveals When They Knew Steve Carrell Would Leave the Show first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 25, 2025
Irish Examiner
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
TV review: I was glad to see the closing credits of Mountainhead
I was in two minds about Mountainhead (Sky Atlantic and NOW). Every now and again I wished this movie was a series but mainly I was glad that I didn't have to spend more than 90 minutes with the main characters. I wanted it to be a series because it's directed by Jesse Armstrong, who was involved with The Thick of It and Succession, two of the best 21st century telly satires. But this one is about four super-rich tech titans, awful men who are happy to set the world on fire as long as their net worth is bigger than the next guy. In this case, the world is literally in flames as the four former frat-boys gather in a Bond-villain mountain retreat to play poker and rekindle their time in The Brewsters. I think that's a fraternity, we're not told. The chief villain is Venis – his social-media platform Traam has just released new features which make it too easy to produce deep-fake videos, which are then used to incite hatred and sectarianism across the globe. His goofy friend Jeff has an AI platform that could douse the flames by identifying any false videos, if only he'd make that technology available to Traam. Overseeing it all is Randall, AKA Papa Bear, which sees Steve Carrell in top Steve Carrell form, playing the original tech God, who likes to name-drop philosophers to justify making money no matter what. The fourth character is the host, Souper, the poorest of the group with a net worth of $550 million. Fans of Succession will like the look and feel of Mountainhead. You've got your fleets of private jets and expensive 4x4s, whisking middle-aged white people here and there. There are put-upon personal assistants making knowing glances at the camera. Everyone is terribly dressed, expensively. But there isn't enough fun. Succession and The Thick of It allowed their characters sufficient humanity and awareness to make jokes about themselves and each other. The four tech bros here are too consumed by themselves to get a decent laugh. There is oodles of acting talent here, but it's wasted with long monologues that could have been lifted from Elon Musk's twitter account. We don't need a telly drama to tell us that super-rich white American nerds are a danger to the planet, we can get that from the news. There are some very funny bits. Souper being parachuted in to head a coup in Argentina is a lovely touch; the bit where Venis tries to bond with his baby boy is gold; the scene around the sauna terrifyingly hilarious. But I was glad to see the closing credits and the back of The Brewsters.
BBC News
29-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Jesse Armstrong: Why I'm writing about rich people again
Jesse Armstrong, one of the UK's most successful screenwriters, is not one to rest on his off the back of his hit show Succession, which followed the twists and turns in the lives of media mogul Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox, and his four children, Armstrong is back with his first feature-length film, a satire film about a group of four tech billionaire friends who go away to a mountain resort for the weekend but find themselves and their social media companies under scrutiny as social unrest spreads across the at the Hay Festival, Armstrong says: "People start by saying, 'Why are you doing these rich people again? And it's a fair question. They're tech billionaires. Succession was about a big media family. And I think it's because I'm interested in power, I don't think it's about just wealth."Succession was very clearly about why is the world like it is, who has power?"HBO's Mountainhead, starring Steve Carrell and Ramy Youssef, was made very quickly."We did it at great speed. I pitched it in December and wrote it in January... carried on re-writing it through pre-production and then shot it in 22 days, then edited it."We only finished (editing) about a week ago and it's on TV this weekend!"Armstrong, 54, wanted to do a quick turnaround on the film to try to capture the feeling and pace of technological developments and society's fear about keeping up. "The anxieties that we have about technology, especially AI, feel very present and move quite fast. And I wanted to try and write it in the same mood as you might be when you're watching it, so I was keen to do it quickly," he says."Another attraction for me was that I've never directed anything before and it made me feel less anxious to run at it and do it really, really quickly." Armstrong, who cut his teeth in children's TV before writing for shows such as The Thick of It and going on to co-create series like Peep Show and Fresh Meat, said the inspiration for Mountainhead came from listening to podcasts."I wrote a book review about Sam-Bankman-Fried, the crypto fraudster, and then I read more and more about tech, and I started listening to podcasts of senior tech figures, from Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, but also the mid-level people and even lower level - it's an ecosphere."I couldn't stop thinking about the voice of these people. I do love getting the vocabulary right. For me, that opens the door, once I can hear them talking. And since it seems like the AI companies are scraping so much of our hard work to train their models, I thought I would scrape them back [using their podcasts]!"Armstrong told the Hay audience that while he knew his job was to engage viewers, writing the film "was a way of expressing a load of feelings about that world and about those men - they're almost all men in that world - and it's cathartic". His shows are known for their dark humour and Armstrong says if he had to write his job description in his passport application, he would put down "comedy writer", adding that he doesn't think of himself as a storyteller."I'm trying to make a story engaging that will probably involve people laughing. And the bit that I find most challenging is finding a story because people remember jokes, but you just won't make it through that half hour or hour unless that story is is compelling enough to make an audience follow along." 'More fearful' Many writers and showrunners end up directing episodes of the series that they have created but Armstrong says he couldn't do that on Succession, which won multiple awards including 14 primetime Emmys."I always felt like the people who did it were so good at it that it was rather rude of me to suggest I could just come in and do it just as well."Armstrong doesn't appear to be your stereotypical confident showrunner, coming across as quite shy and humble, despite his success."Sometimes very creative people have a real 'screw you' attitude to authority, and I don't have that. Maybe I'm a bit more fearful, a bit more amenable. I like everyone to be happy. I want to to give people what they want in quite a decent and humane way. "I don't have a confrontational attitude to people I work with, unless someone's a jerk - I hope I can stand up for myself and the work."Mountainhead is released on HBO and Max on 31 May
Sunday World
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Domhnall Gleeson advised by Steve Carrell to take role in new The Office spinoff
The show is set to premiere later this year. Domhnall Gleeson has revealed that Steve Carrell advised him to take a role in an upcoming spinoff of his hit TV show The Office. The Paper was also created by Greg Daniels, who is the brains behind The Office. Gleeson said that John Krasinski, who also starred in the show, encouraged him to take on the job. "He was wonderful. I mean, his big advice that he gave me was to do it,' he told People. John Kransinski, Jenna Fischer and Steve Carrell with the cast of The Office "And the same with Steve Carell, another just wonderful actor who I'd worked with before. 'Their advice was, if it's Greg Daniels, you should do it because getting to work with him is a treat that not many people get to have.' "I'm so happy I did it because I think we have something really lovely. So I'm thrilled with it," he added. "I mean, I like to think I would've got there on my own anyway, but certainly if [John] and Steve had been like, 'Don't do it, it's a nightmare,' I would've hightailed it, but they could not have been more positive about it, and I'm delighted I listened to them.' The Paper, a mockumentary-style show, will follow staff at a tanking Ohio newspaper, The Truth Teller. Gleeson, who plays Ned, will star alongside Sabrina Impacciatore as Esmerelda, while The Office star Oscar Nunez will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez. 'I don't know that there's much I can tease because they're being super in-house about letting the information out when the show comes out, which I think is a good way to do it,' he told Collider. "People are going to have to take the show on its own merits because it's become something different. It's a whole new city. It's not like a remake. "It's like the documentary crew went to a different city, and they're following different people. " It's not a paper company, it's a newspaper. It's a very, very different setup.' The Paper is set to premiere in September.
