Work Scoop: James Spader's the Boss, But Who's the Boss?

James Spader With Michael Scott from the Office's paper company, Season 8 might find two new males take control of Dunder Mifflin. Once the NBC comedy returns, we'll learn that James Spader's eccentric Robert California has rapidly moved in the ranks of Dunder Mifflin - now he's Boss. Such as the expect the series to get rid of its awkward and endearing charm. "Spader has a lot of an identical energy to Steve Carell," co-executive producer Mindy Kaling informs TVGuide.com. "Everything he states is funny." James Spader joins Work California brings out both best, and worst, within the Dunder Mifflinites by simply being the large guy on the small campus. "He always feels as though the alpha male within the room, that is really exciting, especially because everybody on our show is funny by having an alpha male," co-executive producer B.J. Novak states. "He's very intelligent, almost too intelligent. He's an intellectual, and we have never had an intellectual within the Scranton office before therefore it is very funny to listen to him speak with people." Fittingly, Dwight (Rainn Wilson) will sense danger through the new boss. "Dwight is very torn around Robert California because, on one side, Dwight really wants to be an alpha male, however, Dwight admires simply an alpha male who'll put him in the place, that is what Michael Scott ended up being to him," Novak states. "So Dwight is torn between loyalty and competition." With Robert set as Boss - although executive producer Paul Lieberstein states they'd enjoy having Robert's former competition, Nellie Bertram, return once Catherine Tate finishes a run inside a play - there it's still a vacancy for that managing slot at Dunder Mifflin. The 3 front-runners? Darryl (Craig Robinson), Dwight and Andy (Erectile dysfunction Helms), Novak states, adding: "Individuals grew to become the 3 leading candidates within our minds if this came time for you to shoot." But how about Jim? "Everybody concurs Jim will be the best manager," he states. "And Jim continues to be offered the manager job before, but Jim is not about his job. Jim works to possess a great existence aware of Pam [Jenna Fischer] and the family." Jenna Fischer's pregnancy to become written in to the Office For whomever needs to fill Scott's footwear, Novak states the cast is onboard using the producers' decision. "The entire cast is rallying for this choice inside a really awesome way," he states. "The truly amazing factor about how exactly it's playing out to date is it triggers everybody. This individual being the boss gives great comedy and drama to each other character." Spader is not the only real new face visiting Work this year, either. On Monday, NBC boss Robert Greenblatt stated more stars could be joining the show this year. Novak revealed to TVGuide.com the producers aspire to feature fresh faces from the field of comedy. "I believe you want to bare this show exciting and up-to-date with people the main thing on comedy, a lot more than you want to achieve to celebrities,Inch he stated, observing that Betty Kemper and Kaling were unknowns prior to the Office demonstrated people the things they could do. "You want to find more and more people like this. We'll possess a couple of large names once they easily fit in very well, the way in which we did within the finale this past year with Ray Romano and Jim Carrey. So we'll perform some of this, however for lengthy-term, we actually want to grow new stars." Work finale: Who ought to be the new boss? Despite all the new changes Season 8 might find, Lieberstein declines feeling pressure to complete anything crazy to maintain audiences tuning in. "I believe that might be detrimental towards the show. We still need to stay in keeping with office existence. What we should do best is small office tales, and so i think we must keep doing that." Still, Lieberstein notes: "We always felt pressure, despite Steve." Work premieres Thursday, Sept. 22 at 9/8c on NBC.