In the Peacock mockumentary “The Paper,” an unseen documentary film crew arrives in a mid-size city in order to capture — fly-on-the-wall style — the daily life of office drones. If the premise sounds familiar, that’s intentional. The series comes from Greg Daniels, who adapted “The Office” for U.S. television, and he’s collaborating with Michael Koman (whose writing credits include several years on “Saturday Night Live”) to recapture some of what has given “The Office” such a popular second life on streaming, even a decade-plus after its last episode aired on NBC.
Instead of a nondescript paper company in Scranton, the setting for “The Paper” is a struggling newspaper in Ohio called the Toledo Truth Teller. Or as the passive-aggressive managing editor (Sabrina Impacciatore) calls the dig