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The headline news about “The Office” spinoff “The Paper” is that it’s not bad. It’s not reinventing the wheel, but it’s surprisingly entertaining and amusing.

Premiering on Peacock on Sept. 4, “The Paper” is a mockumentary in the same style as “The Office,” set in the same world. The former show (which ran on NBC from 2005 to 2013) followed employees of Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, PA. It’s become a modern classic; a decade after it ended, it was still the most-streamed show of 2020, with 57 billion minutes viewed. 7

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“The Paper” follows a new cast of characters, working in the office of the “Toledo Truth Teller” newspaper in Ohio.

As the show begins, Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson) is the idealistic new editor-in-chief, stepping in to try

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