Critics have hailed the recent Peacock series The Paper as a strong spiritual successor to NBC’s The Office. Like the popular Steve Carell series, producer Greg Daniels’s latest single-camera sitcom captures the light-hearted absurdity of the colorful characters within the context of the struggling newspaper business. But just 31 years ago, director Ron Howard depicted the controlled chaos of the industry in the New York-centric dramedy ironically titled The Paper.