‘Promised Land’ Joins ‘The Chosen’ on Prime Video

NBC’s “The Office” is a hard act to follow.

Just ask the folks behind “The Paper,” Peacock’s semi-“Office” spinoff. The new series earned a second season, but it’s hardly rocked the zeitgeist like the Steve Carell series did in the 2010s.

Folks who crave that “Office” brand of humor have a clever new series to follow. Clever and wildly unexpected, to be precise.

“The Promised Land” is like “The Office” meets The Bible. The story features similar documentary-style confessions, wink-wink asides and comedy beats that tell stories in a fresh and funny way.

The show debuted on YouTube last year and drew a big enough crowd to get the attention of a major streaming platform – Prime Video.

The show’s first season bows on Amazon’s streaming service Nov. 15. And more is on the way. Prime Video already features the global sensation “The Chosen” as well as “House of David.”

“The Promised Land” offers a very different take on the Old Testament.

The series recently crossed the 1 million views mark for each episode on YouTube with more than 150M cumulative impressions since the pilot’s debut.

The show’s first season stars Wasim No’Mani (“The Chosen,” “SEAL Team”) as Moses, the Michael Scott-like head of the series. Co-stars include Shereen Khan (“The Studio”) as Miriam, Majed Sayess (“FBI,” “Barry”) as Aaron and Tryphena Wade (“The Geechee Witch,” “The Case of the Christmas Diamonds”) as Zipporah.

The first season comes courtesy of creator/writer/director Mitch Hudson. He shared in a YouTube promotional video that he’s working on season 2 at the moment, but he can’t share more about when it will debut.

Hudson has worked as an assistant director on “The Chosen” since 2018.