are they really doing remakes of the office and the wire?

[Derka 6227]

i’ve seen both of those things online this week. please tell me that neither of these things is true.

[Parliament 14260]

You got a link or something?  My guess is it’s clickbait BS.

[Pato del Muerto 52508]

They already did a remake of the office

[Scary Stranger 1715]

The office thing is a different company/cast but the same formula. 

[Sbbruin 21858]

1 minute ago, Scary Stranger said:

The office thing is a different company/cast but the same formula. 

Yeah, it's based on a struggling smaller town newspaper.

[mdmost 43004]

The closest we'll get to a Wire remake is We Run This City. If Simon isn't attached, it's not the Wire. His deal with HBO is over. 

[Michael Knight 12985]

did they really reboot derka yet again?

[Red Five 40860]

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a45301863/the-office-reboot-release-date-trailer-details/

[Pato del Muerto 52508]

56 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

Yeah, it's based on a struggling smaller town newspaper.

Isn’t that Ricky gervais’ job in his Netflix show?  Time is a flat circle. 

[billfromlaketravis 11510]

The Office reboot appears to be real. Or as real as casting announcements. 
 

Im optimistic-ish. Getting Greg Daniels back is huge, and other showrunner worked on the brilliant Nathan for You. 

[irishtexan 11521]

So they've got an Irish guy in his early 40s and an Italian woman in her mid-50s to lead a cast working at a "historic Midwestern newspaper". OK. 

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5393]

There's no need to reboot the wire, the wire is just as, if not MORE relevant today than it was when it released. Just re-air the original if you have to.

[ultimaton 2981]

33 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

So they've got an Irish guy in his early 40s and an Italian woman in her mid-50s to lead a cast working at a "historic Midwestern newspaper". OK. 

Hopefully they hired people that have heard of acting, so they can pretend to be people other than themselves, otherwise this thing could be in trouble!

[Pato del Muerto 52508]

4 minutes ago, ultimaton said:

Hopefully they hired people that have heard of acting, so they can pretend to be people other than themselves, otherwise this thing could be in trouble!

Or maybe it’s set in the 1840s?

[gofuckyourself 8333]

Yep to both, as a mash-up. Undercover sting in Scranton to take down Prison Mike.

[HornOnTheBayou 8931]

2 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

Yep to both, as a mash-up. Undercover sting in Scranton to take down Prison Mike.

I'm in for the scene where Creed has to negotiate with Vondas over the price of a ream of cardstock.

[Deej 76814]

Will the reboot cover Jim being drowned in Town Lake by Nicole, after moving to Austin? If so, I'm in..

[Neonmoon 38129]

I’m always for more content. It could suck. In fact, it’s probably likely it sucks. But there’s always a chance it could be good, which benefits everyone. Is anyone mad Dune got rebooted? Battlestar Galatica? Batman? True Grit? Yes, Red Dawn sucked. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory blew. Road House was laughable. Who cares. 

[bschoolprof 6262]

I tried watching Abbott Elementary once and it was basically the office at an inner city school. 

[billfromlaketravis 11510]

The Office should have ended with the Season 7 finale Goodbye, Michael. Heartfelt, touching, and the scene with Michael and Pam in the airport would have been a Casablanca like walk off. 

Instead we got 2 very uneven seasons that damn near ruined the show. I believe there was a movement in the writers room for Pam to leave Jim for the documentary cameraman. That would have definitely ruined the show. The finale was solid because it was largely Dwight and Jim based and they brought back Steve Carrell. 
 

The Farm in Season 9 was a back door pilot for the Dwight spinoff that NBC passed before the episode aired. Not a great episode, but promising. I feel like  we got robbed of more shows in The Office universe. The Farm’s writer blamed the spinoff getting shelved on Comcast, but let’s be honest, Seasons 8 and 9 sucking killed the spinoff. 

I’m very OK with a The Office reboot, and I’ll keep an open mind. 

[billfromlaketravis 11510]

I haven’t heard or seen shit on a The Wire reboot. Simon is too smart to touch it. We Own This City was awesome, and should be Simon’s last trip to Baltimore. 

[ztejas 43466]

They decided that there weren't enough brutally fucking uninteresting and insipid 20 and 30 somethings in this current generation and as a result we needed to reboot The Office for this next generation.

Edited June 4 by ztejas

['stache 21818]

8 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

I tried watching Abbott Elementary once and it was basically the office at an inner city school. 

And Parks and Rec was The Office in small city government (Leslie’s character in the first season felt like an imitation of Michael Scott’s pure cringe but didn’t work and they changed the character which helped enormously). Both are (were) pretty good. Not sure why this one is being produced as an official “spinoff.” Sounds like the only thing tying them together is the documentary company? I guess as a newspaper it opens the door for a bunch of cameos from Dunder Mifflin people. Sounds lame as fuck.

Edited June 4 by 'stache

[Michael Knight 12985]

4 hours ago, 'stache said:

And Parks and Rec was The Office in small city government (Leslie’s character in the first season felt like an imitation of Michael Scott’s pure cringe but didn’t work and they changed the character which helped enormously). Both are (were) pretty good. Not sure why this one is being produced as an official “spinoff.” Sounds like the only thing tying them together is the documentary company? I guess as a newspaper it opens the door for a bunch of cameos from Dunder Mifflin people. Sounds lame as fuck.

Probably because they are desperate for viewers to save their dying streaming service