'The Office'' reboot a 'goal' for NBC streaming platform, but don't hold your breath

'It is my hope and goal that we do an 'Office' reboot,' Bonnie Hammer, Chairman of Direct-to-Consumer and Digital Enterprises for NBCUniversal, said.

"Apart from the fact that I just don't think that's a good idea, it might be impossible to do that show today and have people accept it the way it was accepted 10 years ago," Steve Carell toldin October 2018."The climate's different. I mean, the whole idea of that character, Michael Scott, so much of it was predicated on inappropriate behavior... There's a very high awareness of offensive things today — which is good, for sure.

Rumors of a reboot have been going on for a long time, so much so Carell even joked about it in his opening monologue when he hostedThe Office

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