Created by Greg Daniels (Parks and Recreation, King of the Hill), The Office premiered on NBC in March 2005, and the sitcom lasted for nine seasons with its final season premiering in May 2013. Recently, there has been an emergence of rumors regarding revival of the sitcom. According to ScreenRant, actor Craig Robinson (Killing It, Hot Tub Time Machine), who played Darryl Philbin in the series, has spoken about the possibility of a revival and whether or not he would be interested in participating.
As ScreenRant notes, Robinson stated, “I heard that there was something going on. It has been mentioned to me. If it does [happen], I would love to reprise Darryl at some point, but right now I don’t know, nor do I think so.”
Rumors of a reboot of The Office began in the fall of 2023. Daniels explained in November 2023 that, if anything were to happen, it would not be a traditional reboot.
According to ScreenRant, Daniels stated, “I don’t like to think of anything as a reboot, you know what I mean? Because I feel like we ended that story beautifully. The characters had closure. I would never want to redo that same show with a different cast, because I think we got the luckiest cast, the best cast ever, in TV, to do that show. So the notion of a reboot is not of interest.”
He continued, “The notion of maybe something like the way The Mandalorian is a new show in the Star Wars universe, you know what I mean? Something like the notion of this documentary crew doing a documentary about a different subject. That, I think, could be intriguing and creative. But I don’t even know what you would call that. I don’t know if that’s like a sister show or something. I don’t know what the term is. But it doesn’t feel like ‘reboot’ would be the appropriate term for that.”
Although Daniels and now Robinson have spoken about the possibility of a revival of The Office, no official plans have been revealed.