The Paper Season 2 Premiere Date and First Look
Peacock has announced that The Paper Season 2 will begin streaming on the service on Wednesday, September 9, 2026. All episodes of the second season will drop at launch. You can view the first photo by scrolling down.
The Paper is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. The first season of the series consists of 10 episodes.
Greg Daniels and Michael Koman serve as co-creators and executive producers. Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Howard Klein, Ben Silverman, and Banijay Americas (formerly Reveille) also executive produce.
The series stars Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Tim Key, Ramona Young, Eric Rahill, Duane Shepard Sr., Alex Edelman, and Oscar Nuñez.
In The Paper Season 2, after sweeping the Ohio Journalism Awards, Ned searches for a journalistic crusade, coming for a local private club and jeopardizing the paper, while he and Mare try to figure out their attraction; Esmeralda struggles to find her place; and the staff gradually matures as reporters.
With the new Peacock series, the documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch in the Emmy Award-winning series The Office finds a new subject when they discover a historic Midwestern newspaper and its publisher, who is trying to revive it.
