Is The Office's Dwight Schrute about to have his own TV show?

Good or bad news depending on your perspective if you are an NBC The Office fan. Roger Friedman is reporting that Dwight Schrute (aka Rainn Wilson) could get a spin off TV show from the mothership:

When I ran into Rainn Wilson, the actor who plays Dwight on the show, at Sunday night’s post-Tony party, he actually brought up the idea, then seemed a little surprised he’d said it out loud.

But Dwight is to "The Office" what Frasier once was to "Cheers," so the idea isn’t that preposterous.

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Friedman points out that Ben Silverman, the new guy running NBC's programming is also the dude who brought The Office to the network from the UK. He needs to fix the networks sagging rating quickly, so why not grab someone from the hit show and spin them off?

Would this ruin The Office though?

Perhaps the show could feature clips of a young Dwight Schrute. Like this one?

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