The latest adaptation of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's mockumentary comedy launches everywhere except the U.S. on Oct. 18.

The trailer for the highly anticipated Australian version of The Office is here and we have thoughts. So many thoughts, it warranted an article.

Following the glorious paper trail blazed by The Office UK and US, Prime Video has just dropped its first trailer of the Aussie iteration to hit screens in October.

The Office Australia's bland, lifeless trailer feels like they're trying to parody the US hit instead of doing something new.

However, that is not the issue I have with the trailer for the Australian The Office. The issue is that the trailer plays up the Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute characters (and the Andy Bernard character?

We’ve had The Office UK. We’ve had The Office US. And now, The Office Australia will be heading to screens this autumn, too.First dreamed up in 2001 by British comedian Ricky Gervais, the premise of The Office is simple: staff in the department of a soulless paper company (or packaging company) have to contend both with the banality of their day-to-day job and with their overly demanding boss.

The upcoming show is the 13th adaptation of the global hit franchise, originally created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant

Felicity Ward takes over as Hannah Howard, the new managing director of Flinley Craddick. The trailer begins with Ward’s character making an announcement, “As of today, we are all back in the office full-time,