A first look at the upcoming The Office spinoff, The Paper, is finally here. "Several years ago, a documentary crew filmed the story of Dunder Mifflin [and] now they've found a new subject," a title card on a Thursday, August 7, trailer reads. The Office, based on the popular British series of the same name, aired for nine seasons from 2005 to 2012 and chronicled the lives of employees at a paper factory via fictitious documentary. The Paper, told in a similar way, examines the staff at a dying newspaper in the Midwest titled the Toledo Truth Teller. "My name is Ned Samson.