You’ve not got long to get one last binge in
Netflix is about to lose one of its most-loved and most-watched series in the UK, with the US version of The Office leaving the platform at the start of 2023.
The American adaptation of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s iconic BBC comedy has been one of Netflix’s most successful licensed titles for years, but British subscribers will soon have to say goodbye to Michael, Jim, Dwight and Pam.
This comes just over two years after the show was removed from the platform in the US in a huge blow to Netflix. A Nielsen report in 2018 revealed that subscribers clocked up more minutes watching The Office than any other series.
Even Friends didn’t come close to matching the popularity of the show, which ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013.
The removal from Netflix has been expected since June 2019 when NBC, the network that aired The Office, announced it would be moving the show exclusively to its own streaming service, Peacock, for five years.
This came into effect from 1 January 2021 meaning The Office won’t be back on Netflix, in any territory, until at least 2026.
What’s On Netflix reports that The Office will also be removed from Netflix in the following countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.
In these countries, it will be removed one day earlier, on 31 December 2022.
So you have just three weeks revisit declaring bankruptcy, running away from responsibilities, pretzel day, the turn tables, Michael Scarn, the prison dementors, bears, beets, and Battlestar Galactica.
And if all of that is still unknown to you, then what are you waiting for?!
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- QUIZ: The hardest US Office quiz you’ll ever take
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- Ricky Gervais’ brilliant response to claims US Office is better than British version
