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Rainn Wilson<\/span><\/strong> recently reflected on the fate of The Farm<\/span><\/strong>, the canceled spin-off of The Office<\/span><\/strong> centered on Dwight Schrute<\/strong>. In a new interview, he explained that NBC\u2019s programming shift caused the project\u2019s rejection before it aired. He also stressed that the series could have brought major success to the network.<\/p>\n Speaking on The Last Laugh podcast<\/a>, Rainn Wilson explained that NBC\u2019s new regime at the time \u201cwanted to do big, bright, flashy, splashy shows that were multi-cams and going back to Friends kind of thing,\u201d adding, \u201cThey were just not interested at all in Office spinoffs at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n He noted, \u201cHad they taken The Farm, they\u2019d probably have another billion dollars in the bank. Even now, all the people that have seen The Office 20 times, they\u2019re going to watch The Farm at least once or twice.\u201d Wilson explained that the spin-off appeared as a backdoor pilot in the ninth and final season of The Office. NBC declined it before the episode aired. He confirmed in a 2012 tweet that the show would not move forward.<\/p>\n Reflecting on the situation, Wilson said, \u201cWould it have been as good as The Office? No. No way. Not even close. Would it have been good? Would it have been solid? Would it have been a good solid comedy? Yeah, it would have, and we would\u2019ve done some really cool stuff. And I think they really missed out.\u201d<\/p>\n Wilson also addressed the broader legacy of The Office. He said NBC \u201cnever really got the show\u201d until years after it ended in 2013, when streaming viewership on Netflix revealed its long-term popularity. He added that certain episodes were \u201cjaw-droppingly kind of horrific,\u201d citing the \u201cBenihana Christmas\u201d storyline.<\/p>\n Wilson explained, \u201cIt\u2019s a show based around clueless, insensitive, racist, sexist people that kind of mirrors the United States in a lot of ways,\u201d and acknowledged that a new version would need to be \u201cvery, very different\u201d in today\u2019s environment. (via Deadline<\/a>)<\/p>\n The post Rainn Wilson on Why The Office\u2019s Dwight Spin-off Was Axed<\/a> appeared first on ComingSoon.net – Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rainn Wilson recently reflected on the fate of The Farm, the canceled spin-off of The Office centered on Dwight Schrute. In a new interview, he explained that NBC\u2019s programming shift caused the project\u2019s rejection before it aired. He also stressed that the series could have brought major success to the network. Rainn Wilson opens up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2015903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[369669,24075,341864,333080],"class_list":["post-2015902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dwight-schrute","tag-nbc","tag-rainn-wilson","tag-the-office"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rainn-Wilson-on-Why-The-Offices-Dwight-Spin-off-Was-Axed.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rainn Wilson opens up on The Office\u2019s Dwight spin-off getting axed<\/h2>\n