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You couldn't make The Office today. This is because television is a dead medium. If they tried to make The Office today it would be named like, "The Paper" and it would have been running since 2025 on Peacock but you wouldnt have even heard of it because who has any idea what's running on "Peacock".

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Now if it was up to me, sir, I tell ya, I'd watch all o' those shows. The movies. The musicals. You know what I mean. The comedies. But my wife, ya see, she likes the Columbo. Only the Columbo, you understand. So that's what we watch. You gotta keep a good woman happy, so we just watch the Columbo.

It’s entirely possible there’s been a near analog to The Office on Tubi or Pluto or whatever for the past dozen years and no one has ever heard of it because who knows if b-tier streaming tv shows are even required to make money.

They'd have a 10 ep season where Michael Scott doesn't appear until the 9th, and doesn't cause trouble with his insensitivity until the last 5 minutes of the finale. 3 years later we get season 2 and they introduce Jim...with limited screen time because the actor was busy filming batman.