The Workplace Australia Confirmed For Prime Video In October

You cringed at David Brent. You got here to like Michael Scott. (Or, the good undercover agent Michael Scarn.) Now, prepare to satisfy Hannah Howard – the newest nightmare boss in a brand new tackle The Workplace. The legendary comedy sitcom – which originated with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Service provider’s 2001 mockumentary sequence within the UK, and spawned the mega-smash US model in 2005 – is now delivering a model from Australia, able to ship audiences to the company tradition of Down Beneath. The sequence – formally titled The Workplace, however certain to be often known as ‘The Australian Workplace’, or ‘The Workplace Australia’ as soon as it arrives – is coming to Prime Video within the UK from 18 October.

This time, The Workplace received’t happen at a paper firm like Wernham Hogg or Dunder Mifflin – it’ll be set at Flinley Craddock, a packaging firm the place main cuts are about to threaten the workforce. It’s as much as Hannah Howard (performed by Felicity Ward, who popped up in The Inbetweeners 2, and lately featured on Richard Osman’s Home Of Video games) to try to preserve every little thing collectively. With an eight-episode run, this one seems to be set to function extra just like the UK iteration fairly than the prolonged seasons of the US model.

Right here’s the official synopsis: “Hannah Howard is the managing director of packaging firm Flinley Craddick. When she will get information from Head Workplace that they are going to be shutting down her department and making everybody earn a living from home, she goes into survival mode, making guarantees she will’t preserve as a way to preserve her ‘work household’ collectively. The employees of Flinley Craddick indulge her and should endure Hannah’s outlandish plots as they work towards the inconceivable targets which have been set for them.”

Does the world want one other model of The Workplace? Will it dwell as much as the opposite English-language variations (there are world takes on The Workplace aplenty, although none as well-known because the US and UK takes)? It’s exhausting to say – however actually, all of it comes right down to the writing and the characters. Bear in mind, the The Workplace US actually got here into its personal on Season 2, and sprang into one of the beloved reveals ever to grace the field. Right here’s hoping the Australian model earns a handful of Dundies.