The office ended in 2014, it's been six seven years now. Last year pam and angela's office ladies started on Earwolf podcast network. In a week, Kevin's an audio history of the office starts. Two live podcasts about a show that's been off air for what is going to be a decade now. Here we must ask, how many podcasts can a show support. Official podcasts I mean, because there must be a very large number of fan podcasts...I remember listening to three (3) different fan podcasts about 30 rock years after it went off air and 30 rock was nowhere near as popular as the office.
I'll propose it's more than two. I'm willing to bet if the participants are willing to put money into it, there could be at least one possibly one more. Four podcasts for a show that's been long off air. It's how much people love the show and what a relaxing low stress place it takes you to that makes people so comfortable with it. You could even create, I bet, two separate weekly audio comedies out of the show, take it from where it last left in addition to the four podcasts and people would keep consuming. There's not too much drama there's not that many worries, besides the annoying intro there's no loud noises. Things don't change much, actions don't have devastating consequences, there aren't too many visual jokes and those that are mostly visual are also supported solidly by the audio.
In any case, the reason they're releasing the new podcast is that Spotify saw how the office ladies were killing it with the podcast, they started from nowhere and they're not particularly talented voice artists, and vaulted to the top of the pod charts general pod rankings even with not much marketing. Because people love the office so much and because of Angela and Pam they're up there. The show's great but it's not coming from nowhere. The listeners are rewarding the content producers with their attention, it's upto the creators if they want to capitalize on that.
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