claim: NBC confirmed in September 2017 that the cast of 'The Office' would reunite for a new season.
origin: On 5 September 2017, the web siteÂ Pagez.comÂ published an article claimingÂ that the cast of the hit NBC showÂ The OfficeÂ would return for a new season in 2018: < CONFIRMED: The Office US is returning in 2018! Last week we heard the news that NBC bosses have given writers the go ahead to create a new season of The Office US. Today, we hear the news that writer,Â Mindy KalingÂ is ready to write.Â This week has been full of Office news ever since starÂ Jenna FisherÂ posted an old un-shot episode script on Instagram. Calling out the crew to get back together and shoot!Â > This article is based on two other posts â€” An April Foolâ€™s Day joke onÂ Medium.comÂ and an Instagram post from actress Jenna Fischer â€” neither of which â€œconfirmedâ€ that the cast of The Office would reunite for a new season of the hit NBC show. Fischerâ€™s Instagram post, for instance, was posted in February 2017, not â€œthis weekâ€ as alleged by this September 2017 article. Although Fischerâ€™s idea stirred up some fan interest in a reunion, neither NBC nor the showâ€™s creators have announced plans to create new episodes. Â The rest of theÂ Pagez.comÂ article is based on an April Foolâ€™s Day Joke published onÂ Medium.com.Â In fact, the author of theÂ PagezÂ article plagiarized an entire paragraph from the joke article on Medium. Hereâ€™s a comparison of text from the joke article on Medium (left) and the fake news article on PagezÂ (right): Pagez.com later retractedÂ their claim: < TheÂ other dayÂ we reported that The Office US would be hitting our screens again in 2018. Well, we were wrong. We all make mistakes and it seems that we got fooled by an April Fools joke from earlier this year. After our writers read theÂ original articleÂ they got so excited they just had to tell everyone. They went ahead and published the story. So blame them. Not me.Â > However, there is a real (albeit slight) possibility that NBC could reboot the hit series.Â NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt toldÂ DeadlineÂ in August 2017 that the network frequently talks about bringing backÂ The OfficeÂ (with a different cast), but added that a new season was not currently in the works: < There had been a lot of chatter the past few weeks about NBC potentially bringing back Emmy-winning comedyÂ The Office,Â with Greg Daniels â€” who developed and ran the U.S. version of the British series â€” at the helm and possibly a new cast. While Iâ€™d heard some optimism around town that a newÂ OfficeÂ may be in the offing, NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt did not indicate that a deal is in the works. â€œWe often talk aboutÂ The Office, Iâ€™ve talked to Greg four times over the past few years. Itâ€™s always, â€˜maybe some day but not nowâ€™,â€ Greenblatt said in an interview with Deadline during NBCâ€™s portion of theÂ TCAÂ press tour. â€œThere is certainly an open invitation but we donâ€™t have anything happening right now. If he wants to do it, I would do it.â€ >