NBC still really wants a reboot of The Office

At the Edinburgh TV Festival, NBC content chief Susan Rovner told Deadline that the network would like to work on a reboot “whenever [The Office creator] Greg Daniels wants to do one.” She adds,“We’re standing by.” Daniels seems open to it. He told Collider back in January that a reboot was “not impossible for sure” and said he’d want to be involved if the opportunity ever comes up. Rainn Wilson also told Collider that he was up for playing Dwight again and even told Daniels that he “would love to do something.”

But… do we even need The Office to come back? Even most of the show’s biggest fans can admit that the series lost its charm towards the end. We will, however, admit that we’re a bit curious about what the Dunder Mifflin gang’s up to these days. Podcaster Tumi Ntlokwana recently wrote a viral tweet that says “Imagine an episode of The Office where they all have to get vaccinated.” People had some great concepts for what that would be like, including Dwight saying he sacrificed himself “for the greater good of the office” by getting COVID first so he could create the vaccine with his own antibodies, and Michael signing everyone up for the vaccine except his nemesis Toby. Some pandemic-themed TV specials have been painful to watch, but we wouldn’t mind seeing this Twitter thread become a real thing.

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