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The Office continues to be a popular show with viewers finding it on streaming years after the sitcom ended its nine-season run on NBC.

Office is reportedly in the works, and fans of the show are not happy.Yesterday (September 25) it was announced that the months-long Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike in Hollywood – which has put a halt to work on new shows – will be coming to an end soon after reaching a “tentative agreement”.Speculation has now started to spread about what this could mean for new shows. US late-night talk shows, for example, could be returning to screens as soon as next week, while work on HBO‘s The Last Of Us season two will begin “the second” the strikes come to an end.Now, there are reports that the US version of The Office could be getting a revamp.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-shortlisted Panamanian filmmaker Abner Benaim (Plaza Catedral) is gearing up to direct a feature adaptation of Nemesis, the final bestseller by Philip Roth to be published prior to the famed author’s 2018 passing.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director NBC’s “The Office” ended after nine seasons and 201 episodes in May 2013, about seven years before the COVID pandemic disrupted jobs around the world. In a new interview on “The Drew Barrymore Show” (via Entertainment Weekly), cast member Rainn Wilson said it would’ve been a thrill to do pandemic-themed episodes of the sitcom. Wilson, who starred as Dwight Schrute, was a main cast member on all nine seasons of the show. “It would’ve been so much fun to film ‘The Office’ during the pandemic,” Wilson said. “If we had pandemic episodes, that would’ve been amazing. ‘The Office’ writers were so great — they would’ve been able to spin that in some beautiful ways.”

A 15-year-old has been arrested in last month's shooting at a western Pennsylvania amusement park that wounded three people, including two teenagers. Allegheny County and West Mifflin police said last week that the teenager is being charged as an adult with aggravated assault, reckless endangering and firearms crimes in the Sept. 24 gunfire at Kennywood Park on the opening night of the park's Phantom Fall Fest.

EXCLUSIVE: Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, has partnered with the management and creative content platform Sugar23 to establish the co-branded publishing imprint, Sugar23 Books.

Friends forever! After The Office debuted on NBC in 2005, viewers quickly fell in love with the different dynamics amongst the cast.

1. “Life Force” by Tony Robbins, Peter H. Diamandis with Robert Hariri (Simon & Schuster)2.

1. “Little Blue Truck’s Valentine” by Alice Schertle; art by Jill McElmurry (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)2. “Atomic Habits” by James Clear (Avery)3.

1. “Red-Handed” by Peter Schweizer (Harper)2. “Reminders of Himby” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake)3.

1. “Reminders of Him” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake)2. “Atomic Habits” by James Clear (Avery)3.

Emmy winner Kerry Washington (Little Fires Everywhere, American Son) has signed on to produce and star in Rockaway, Netflix’s film adaptation of the memoir by Diane Cardwell.

1. "The Last Thing He Told Me” by Laura Dave (Simon & Schuster)2.

The man in question was Prince.The controversial Irish singer tells the story of how they got to this point, among many other anecdotes from a bizarre and incredible life in her new memoir, “Rememberings,” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 1).O’Connor, now 54, delves deep into the good, bad and the sad (her mother abused her terribly as a child, once locking her in her room with no food and then leaving for the weekend). She also includes the downright silly aspects of her life, including an

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has agreed to acquire Houghton MifflinHarcourt's Books & Media consumer publishing unit for $349 million in cash. The deal, unveiled on Monday,covers 7,000 book titles, including such popular backlist titles as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and other books by J.R.R.

Rupert Muroch’s News Corp said Monday it will acquire the Books & Media segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for $349 million in cash and merge it with HarperCollins amid ongoing consolidation in the book publishing business.

NEW YORK -- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is selling HMH Books & Media, which includes titles by J.R.R.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNews Corp clinched a deal to acquire Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s books and media segment for $349 million in cash, planning to combine the publisher with its HarperCollins Publishers subsidiary.The Rupert Murdoch-controlled company said it expects the deal to close in the second quarter of calendar 2021, subject to to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.The HMH Books & Media backlist of more than 7,000 titles include “The Lord of the

NEW YORK -- An upcoming edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy will include paintings, drawings and other illustrations by the British author for the first time since it was published in the mid-1950s.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Thursday that the new version will come out Oct.

One of the first novels about the pandemic will be a collaborative effort, with Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Celeste Ng among the writers.

Barack Obama (Crown)6. “Atomic Habits” by James Clear (Avery)7.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe speechwriter who helped President Barack Obama pen his stirring address memorializing the victims of the Charleston church massacre will release a memoir about his time working in the White House.Sugar23 Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media, has acquired “Grace: A President, His Speechwriter, and Ten Days in the Battle for America” by Cody Keenan, one of the 44th president’s chief wordsmiths.

Barack Obama (Crown)4. “The Scorpions's Tail” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central Publishing)5.

Sinéad O’Connor has announced a new memoir titled Rememberings. The book is slated to hit shelves on June 1 next year via Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books and Media.According to a press release, the memoir will detail O’Connor’s childhood growing up in an abusive Dublin household, her subsequent escape through music and more.“This is my story, as I remember it.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s upcoming novel Yes, Daddy, set in a nightmarish scenario in the Hamptons, has landed at Amazon Studios for development.The streamer is working on an adaptation of the book, which is set to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in June 2021, with Patrick Moran’s PKM Productions and Little America director Stephen Dunn writing and directing.The book follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright

1. “Disloyal” by Michael Cohen (Skyhorse Publishing)2. “Dog Man: Grime and Punishment” by Dav Pilkey (Graphix)3.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmWhen Oliver Stone interviewed for a Deadline The Film That Lit My Fuse timed with the release of his memoir Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game, the three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker gave Deadline permission to provide our readers with a few passages from the book that was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.A dishy coming of age of a filmmaker tale, Chasing the

NEW YORK -- The author and educator Kleaver Cruz has traveled the world asking the same question: “What does Black joy mean to you?” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Monday that Cruz has adapted his “Black Joy Project" into a book of the same name. “Black Joy Project,” which does not yet have a release date, will combine images and essays into what Cruz has called the vital use of joy as a path to resistance.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has gone back to his roots for Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game. Just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book is a personal reminiscence, the coming of age of a great filmmaker.

Also Read: 'Friends' Is HBO Max's Most-Viewed Show Since LaunchBorrell is a journalist based in Los Angeles whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, National Geographic, The New York Times, and Outside. Borrell’s narrative non-fiction book proposal for “The First Shot” was sold at auction to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.CAA represented the television sale of Borrell’s “The First Shot” on behalf of the Waxman Agency.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticNan A. Talese, President, Publisher and Editorial Director of her eponymous Doubleday imprint, will retire at the end of the year, bringing an end to one of publishing’s most celebrated careers that also included stints at Random House, Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin.Since starting her Nan A.

By Nellie Andreeva

NEW YORK -- Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and career diplomat who during the impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump offered a chilling account of alleged threats from Trump and his allies, has a book deal.

NEW YORK -- Former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, the career diplomat who during the impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump offered a chilling account of alleged threats from Trump and his allies, has a book deal.