Los Angeles —

In Peacock’s “The Paper,” the fictional documentary crew who once chronicled the lives of office staff at Dunder Mifflin, a paper company trying to exist in an increasingly paperless world, has set their sights on another dwindling industry — local news.

At the Toledo Truth Teller, the crew finds Ned Sampson, an anti-Michael Scott if there ever was one, as far as bosses go. A newly-appointed editor-in-chief with little actual journalism experience, Ned comes from privilege, is almost hyper vigilant about not offending others and holds meetings with his staff where they actually discuss work. Imagine that!

The point where the two characters intersect, however, will be more important to viewers hopeful that this TV spin-off has legs: Ned, like the fellow former salesman at

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