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"The Office is to end after its upcoming ninth season, it has been announced. Showrunner Greg Daniels confirmed that he is planning an &amp;quot;exciting&amp;quot; end to the NBC comedy.  &amp;quot;This year feels like the last chance to... make an artistic ending for the show,&amp;quot; he told reporters. &amp;quot;This will be the last season of The Office, and we&amp;#039;re planning a big exciting last season. &amp;quot;All questions will be answered this year. We&amp;#039;re going to see who&amp;#039;s behind the documentary.&amp;quot; Talking about what fans can expect in the ninth season, he said: &amp;quot;We will be doing more [character] arcs, and more drama in the Jim and Pam storyline. &amp;quot;We are planning some big surprises. I&amp;#039;m guessing the show will feel more like Dunder-Mifflin from before the Sabre merger [when former showrunner Paul Lieberstein took over].&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;Considering we are still NBC&amp;#039;s highest-rated scripted show, with a cast of 17 all-stars, any decision about a series finale will be made for creative reasons only.&amp;quot; A Dwight (Rainn Wilson)-based spinoff series The Farm is also currently in the works. Jake Lacy recently joined the cast of The Office as a series regular for its ninth season. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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