Here’s What to Know About ‘The Paper’ Season 2 Release Date, Trailer and Cast Revealed
'The Office' spinoff returns with a new trailer, new cast members and one big office romance
Key Takeaways
- 'The Paper' Season 2 premieres on Peacock Wednesday, September 9, with 10 episodes.
- The Season 2 trailer teases more of Mare and Ned's romance from the finale kiss.
- New cast members include Jon Lovitz, Andy Richter and Toks Olagundoye.
The presses are rolling again! Season 2 of The Paper, the mockumentary comedy set in the same universe as The Office, officially has a premiere date—and a new trailer offering the first look at what’s ahead for the staff of the Toledo Truth Teller.
After its first season introduced viewers to the struggling Ohio newspaper and the eccentric reporters trying to keep it alive, the newsroom is back for another round of stories, workplace chaos and documentary-camera awkwardness. Here’s what we know about Season 2, including when it premieres, who’s returning and what the new trailer reveals.
What we know about Season 2 of ‘The Paper’
Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, The Paper expands the world of The Office beyond Dunder Mifflin, following a documentary crew as it turns its cameras on a struggling Midwestern newspaper. The connection between the two shows goes beyond their mockumentary style, with Oscar Nuñez reprising his role as Oscar Martinez from The Office. But more significantly, it brought together a whole new ensemble of charcters.
“It all felt very surreal,” Chelsea Frei, who plays Mare Pritti in the show, told Woman’s World last year. “I truly can’t even believe we’re here doing this.”
Another thing Frei probably couldn’t believe they were doing? Kissing! Season 1 ended with Mare finally kissing her boss, Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson), and judging by the newly released trailer, that moment was only the beginning. Their budding romance looks set to become a major part of the story when The Paper returns.
“We shot that ending like a million different ways,” she told Swooon in September of last year. “I didn’t even know that’s how it was going to be. There are versions where we didn’t kiss. [I think] they wanted to see how the season felt and where it went.”
“I always say, and I think it’s true, that Mare and Ned just both want to make something amazing. Whatever their relationship ends up being or is right now, it’s almost a byproduct of this important thing to them, which is the paper.”
Also going to be a big part of Season 2? The awards the reporters won at the end the last season. Throughout the trailer viewers see Ned and the rest of the company’s executives pushing them to create even more award-winning content. During these exchanges it’s also brought up that they live in a small town—Toledo, Ohio—where there is not going to be life changing news every day. Well, minus the day that Adelola (Gbemisola Ikumelo) and Travis (Eric Rahill) decide to go chase down a tornado, which can be seen in the trailer.
“I’m incredibly excited to get dubbed back in. It’s really nice to do something silly about journalism, which is a very serious thing,” Gleeson told Deadline in January of this year. “I think if we were doing a big paper, you would be getting into all sorts of stuff that would be difficult to talk about in any way that was funny. The fact that it’s a really local place, you can find the small things that mean bigger things. And in a way, that’s always the news that really matters—the one that’s just on your street. So yeah, we’re loving it. I’m very lucky to be a part of it.”
You can watch the entire trailer for Season 2 of The Paper below.
‘The Paper’ Season 2 cast
As of publication, all of the Season 1 cast members of The Paper will be back for Season 2. This includes Gleeson, Frei, Ikumelo, Rahill Sabrina Impacciatore, Melvin Gregg, Tim Key, Ramona Young, Duane R. Shepard Sr., Alex Edelman and Oscar Nuñez, who, as noted, was the only main character from The Office to reprise his role.
They will be joined by Allan Havey, Jon Lovitz, Lisa Gilroy, Matt Braunger, Toks Olagundoye, Phil Hendrie and Andy Richter, who went viral during his Season 34 Dancing with the Stars run.
‘The Paper’ Season 2 release date
Season 2 of The Paper will air on Peacock on Wednesday, September 9. There will be 10 episodes total.
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