Cool, can't wait for the first season to drop, everyone be pissed that it's not the original office, and then the series is abruptly cancelled after two seasons if they even make it to season two.
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Creativity is truly dead in the west
Creativity is alive and kicking. You’ll just find it on YT by a small time content creator and not a Hollywood/TV media business.
What channels on YouTube? YouTube has felt like AI generated content for a long time, since so many videos will follow the pattern of being a stretched out length, sponsor drop, and begs for likes and subscribe because of what determines algorithm visibility. Creativity feels like it's all suppressed with searches showing content from the same big channels too.
Feel like Rocket Jump with VGHS was the last era of channels attempting to make original TV/movie content. YouTube feels like it's filled with mainly talking heads these days. Not really know of many channels that tried for TV style episodic videos like Rocket Jump did with VGHS.
Hard agree!
Uhh theres countless channels? It’s about what you subscribe to, not what ever nonsense is taking up the front page.
My YT is full of history, biology, re-enactments, technology, and some light gaming. Content ranges from people cooking 2,000 year old recipes to a look at some 1980s LaserDisk player
But, those aren't tv shows or movies. They share more in common with reality TV and talk shows and podcasts.
When I heard YouTube is more creative with this being a topic about The Office I figured it was creative alternatives to tv show and movie alternatives you might have been suggesting. Like VGHS YouTube series as I mentioned.
How is a cooking show more in common with reality tv than a tv show?
If you want plot driven stuff, I dunno there’s Joel Haver shorts and probably a million others on there.
TV shows I look for are more narrative driven stories that are unfolding with characters and plot.
Cooking show is more in the realm of reality TV with less scripted presentation even though it is scripted. It's easier to find traditional TV show and talk show alternatives on YouTube than there is to find series along the vein of Fargo, Succession, The Office, House of the Dragon, etc.
Joe Haver is more shorts or skits, but not what I'm looking for. It's why I keep coming back to VGHS. It was the most ambitious attempt at offering a TV show on YouTube.
That's the type of narrative creativity that I'm looking for over usual x person talking and explaining or summarizing things that usually tends be the general YouTube content. Or some short skits.
Lenghty story driven content is just not really prevalent on YouTube, or have much selection if there is like there is when it comes to the numerous shows on Netflix to select from. Not surprising either given the budget required for TV shows and movies, which is why there's been no more VGHS type ambitious projects I know of that showed on YouTube since then.
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Oh god why even
Cash grab or return to office propaganda? Why not both.
And they still wonder why TV is a dying medium.
The office isn’t even that old….is it?
The article mentioned it ended in 2013, so that's about 10 years ago; but I don't think studios reboot franchises because there's a new story to tell in the modern era, I think it's because studios sense there's money left to be milked from the series.
With Greg Daniels attached, I hope it's not just a blatant cash grab, but it's hard to far l say, this early on.
I guess I just don’t see 10 years as old enough for a reboot. Or even that old for a tv show. I think reboots, I think like She-ra or Saved by the bell or something. Rebooting the office while people still rewatch it heavily just seems weird.
I agree, but I suspect this is mostly being pushed through because Comcast needs more "Peacock exclusives" or something, not because they believe in it.
Having said that; that doesn't mean it won't turn out to be a good show against the odds. The fact that it sounds like a mostly new cast is certainly a good sign (to me).
Yea, I agree. I’d be willing to give it a chance.
Just seems creatively lazy when there’s so many new stories/ideas yet to be written.
It ended over 10 years ago
If dating apps are an indication, this will appeal to 80% of women in america!
Office workplaces aren't the same as they used to it be, it wouldnt work. Just make more seasons, show us where the characters are now.
Don't reboot it.
I think that would still be considered a reboot as well (see the iCarly reboot or the new Frasier reboot as examples of reboots that follow the cast some number of years down the line).
I would personally prefer a fresh cast over a continuation, though. With any continuation there are going to be missing cast members who's absence is felt, which would not be the case with a fresh cast. Additionally a fresh cast gives you room to have a new plot from scratch instead of being constrained to an old show where you have ~10 years of established lore that you need to be careful not to contradict or retread.
Hopefully the show holds up either way, though, as I know there are fans of the original who would be quite disappointed if the quality was poor.
This doesn't feel like a thing that needed to happen
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If it's something akin to How I Met Your Father, I could be on board. Not so much in style or tone surely, but taking the same skeleton that worked in the original and applying it to new people (and in this case, to a new location too). I think it would be a bummer to just go back to Dunder Mifflin Scranton and rehash all those characters. Workplace comedy isn't so far out there, real workplaces have become even more absurd over the last ten years, and if it has light callbacks to the original but can do its own thing too, then I'll check it out.
That's the optimist in me. We'll see how hard he gets bodyslammed when this comes to fruition!
It's almost certainly going to just inundate the viewer with canned punchlines about work from home, COVID, and Zoom.
Literally nothing new and nothing even funny.