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Ever since it was officially announced back in May of 2024, it’s been an open question of how much Peacock’s spin-off of The Office would be trafficking in nostalgia. Obviously, the answer to that, generally, was going to be a lot—you don’t reboot a sitcom with a long life, and a very definitive ending, like this if you’re not looking to harvest some of that sweet, sweet memory candy. But how far would the show go? Would it extend to the series’ casting, throwing alums into the cubicles with stars Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore?
Yes, kind of: Variety confirms today that the untitled spin-off series has now officially added one former Dunder-Mifflin employee to its cast, with news that Oscar Nuñez will be reprising his role as sarcastic accountant Oscar Martinez for the new show. Nuñez is, as far as anybody knows, the only Office cast member who’ll be returning in a serious way for the new series; his role in the show, which has been developed by original series mastermind Greg Daniels, has apparently been in there since the project first began development.
There’s a mild irony to that, in that Nuñez has had one of the more successful post-Office runs out of all his castmates. He may not have started producing his own shows with his name in them, a la Mindy Kaling, or fronted a massively successful podcast like Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey. But he’s also not down in the Cameo mines (or doing whatever that weird crowdfunding thing Leslie David Baker was doing for a while was), having steadily starred in other comedy series like Benched, People Of Earth, and Mr. Iglesias. (None of these did Office numbers, of course, but very few TV shows in comedy history have.) Plot detail about the series (which is also being worked on by Nathan For You‘s Michael Korman) are being kept tightly under wraps—rumors suggest it might center on volunteer reporters for a failing Midwestern newspaper—although it’s meant to exist “in the world of The Office.”
