The Office is officially getting a new Australian remake and people are not convinced it is going to be a resounding success.News of the new Aussie regeneration of the Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant-created sitcom was announced on Monday (August 19), with all eight episodes of the show set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on October 18.The show will star Australian comedian Felicity Ward as the franchise’s first ever female lead, playing Hannah Howard, the managing director of the Flinley Craddick packaging company.It will be the 13th version of The Office around the world, after the huge success of the US version, starring Steve Carell as Michael Scott, having run for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013.Following the announcement, fans of the The Office have been reacting on social media, with some expressing doubt that the new version can live up to its predecessors, and others questioning why it would be happening now, over two decades since the debut of the UK original.VERY australian-TV-industry-coded to poop a The Office remake out 20 years too late pic.twitter.com/u7BmTIJj6I— Jay K Cagatay (@jayktweets) August 19, 2024It took Australia this long to tackle The Office?
https://t.co/wOMsymgUrl— SJWJamesBond Wants Nazis Banned ︽✵︽ Agent of GIRL (@mvbrat91) August 19, 2024If any of you show me even a second of the Australian remake of The Office I’m sending you anthrax in the mail— The One and Only Peter Falk (@thepeterfalk) August 19, 2024i can only assume an australian version of the office will suck— matt (@mattDCLXVI) August 20, 2024Others have complained that the new reboot proves that there are not enough new ideas being commissioned.First Death In Paradise, now The Office.C'mon Australian television executives,.
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