Initially, Greg Daniels and Michael Koman greeted their Peacock bosses’ idea to turn The Paper into a binge drop as if it was a plan dreamed up by Michael Scott himself. “For us, I think, we started off agitating for the drop, and partly it was because the original Office was a weekly thing,” Daniels, who co-created The Paper with Koman, recently told TheWrap. Peacock initially planned to release the first four episodes of the new Office spinoff at once, with two episodes following every week. Using that model, the season would have taken a little less than a month to air in its entirety—much less time than any individual season of The Office, but a lot more than the single day drop the streamer decided to pivot to just two weeks before its premiere. Daniels further explained that the divisive switcheroo “didn’t come from” him or Koman. “But then, [Peacock execs] had pointed out that most people who are big Office fans probably binged it because they saw it on Netflix or Peacock… So that argument kind of evaporated.”
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