He’s not going again to Scranton.
Mike Schur, who was a producer and author on “The Office,” earlier than he went on to co-create hit comedies like “Parks and Recreation” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” has weighed in on the upcoming new iteration of “The Office.”
Schur additionally appeared on-screen in a number of episodes, as Dwight Schrute’s (Rainn Wilson) eccentric cousin, Mose.
Throughout an interview about his new Netflix present “A Man on the Inside” (premiering Thursday, Nov. 21), Schur instructed The Put up about “The Office” spinoff present, “I will be watching as a fan only, but I’m not involved in any way now.”
The unique American model of “The Office” aired for 9 seasons on NBC from 2005 to 2013.
NBC introduced the brand new model of the present in Might 2024.
It’ll observe a distinct solid of characters, together with stars Sabrina Impacciatore (“The White Lotus”) and Domhnall Gleeson.
The untitled new comedy will hail from Greg Daniels (who tailored the unique NBC present) and “Nathan for You” co-creator Michael Koman.
Per Peacock’s description, the brand new mockumentary collection can be set at “a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters.”
For any naysayers wringing their palms over the potential for a brand new model of “The Office,” Schur mentioned, “I think that Greg Daniels is among the very best to ever write for television, and that he wouldn’t be doing it unless he thought he had a really good way to do it.”
“The Good Place” creator added about his former colleague, “I just believe in him, as a writer and a show creator. I think that whatever he does will be worth watching.”
Schur defined that Daniels, “literally taught me how to write TV, when I worked on ‘The Office.’ And so, I would have implicit trust in any idea that he brought to the screen.”
Schur additionally weighed in on whether or not he’d reprise his function of Mose on the brand new iteration of the present, if he was requested to.
“You know what? If [Daniels] asked me, I would do it,” he instructed The Put up.
“No one else. If anyone else asked me, [I’d say] ‘get out of here. No way. Get lost.’ But if Greg [Daniels] called me on the phone and said, ‘I really need this to happen,’ I would do it in a heartbeat.”
