From 'The Office' to the Post Office

Steve Carell became a huge star by helping turn the American version of the TV series The Office into a staple of NBC's Thursday-night lineup. But Carell is leaving the show at the end of this season. So what's next?

According to Deadline Hollywood's Michael Ausiello, the answer is another kind of office: the post office. Ausiello reports that NBC has bought a new half-hour sitcom developed by Carell based on his years as a letter carrier in Littleton, Mass. Apparently, the series will center on a group of small-town twenty-somethings who frequent the local post office. (Who does that any more?) Its tentative title is The Post-Graduate Project.

"Carell has referred to his experience as a mailman in interviews," writes Ausiello, "saying that he quit after a few months because his boss told him he was not very efficient."

(Hat tip: Atlantic Wire)