Spader, who appeared in last season’s finale and more this year as the oddball boss Robert California, won’t be back next year.
As previously reported, Spader’s ambitious character won’t be long for his mid-level Dunder Mifflin job. As series regular/executive producer Paul Lieberstein said: “He’ll have been hired over the summer as the new manager, but within hours, got himself promoted. Within days, he took over the company” as the new Sabre CEO. All of which means that The Great Office Boss Mystery will continue, since Robert California won’t occupy Michael Scott’s vacated office for long.
James Spader, who appeared on the seventh-season finale of the hit comedy, will be joining the show as Robert California, who takes over as boss of the entire Dunder Mifflin operation.
The Office may have found a new boss: James Spader is negotiating with NBC to join the hit comedy next fall — but not merely as the manager of the Scranton branch.
