The Office Spinoff

The Office Spinoff, The quirky workplace TV comedy “The Office” may spin off one of its main characters. Deadline Hollywood reported that the proposed show would see Rainn Wilson’s Dwight Schrute, who was dismayed at being passed over for the job of Dunder Mifflin office manager last year, living at his family’s beet farm and bed-and-breakfast. The show could include multiple generations of his family struggling to survive and stay together.

Deadline said that if all goes well, the new show could be launched in early 2013. “The Office,” based on the British mockumentary of the same name created by comic Ricky Gervais, has been a critical and ratings success for NBC for eight years, winning Emmys, acting and writing awards.

But ratings have slipped by about 1 million regular viewers since the departure last year of lead actor Steve Carell, who portrayed manager Michael Scott.