Seth Rogen‘s new Hollywood satire collection The Studio was impressed by The Workplace, it has been revealed.
The present, which premieres this week on Apple TV+, sees the actor play an government referred to as Matt Remick, who’s promoted to be the top of the fictional Continental Studios because the movie business undergoes big modifications.
Talking to The Guardian, Rogen defined that they used The Workplace as a touchstone for the present, notably the boss dynamic.
“We talked rather a lot about The Workplace, which I really like, and the way the boss is essentially the most tragic determine on the present,” he mentioned. “Simply since you’re on the prime of the facility construction, it doesn’t imply you’re much less relatable or humorous.”
Rogen additional famous that, in contrast to The Studio‘s tackling of Hollywood, The Workplace wasn’t conceived as a “love letter to the paper business”, although was cautious to not fall into self-indulgence together with his present.
“We took nice care to verify the comedic premise itself was relatable to anybody watching,” he added.
“I believe folks with common workplace jobs have that feeling of, ‘Oh! There’s a presentation I helped on and the individual giving it isn’t going to acknowledge I helped on it!’”
The collection was created by Rogen, Evan Goldberg and others, and likewise options Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders and Kathryn Hahn, whereas stars together with Charlize Theron, Zoë Kravitz, Martin Scorsese, Olivia Wilde and Zac Efron have cameos.
In a five-star evaluation, NME mentioned: “Alongside an impressively starry solid of A-listers, they ship a 10-part self-loathing love letter to the biz that simply may be the sharpest, funniest present of 2025 up to now.”
In the meantime, final month Rogen admitted he didn’t take note of the net response after James Franco mentioned his friendship with Rogen was over final yr.
Elsewhere, The Workplace is set to get a brand new Peacock spin-off collection, which is rumoured to be titled The Paper and is ready in a dying Midwestern historic newspaper.
