‘The Good Place’s Ted Danson & Mike Schur Re-team For New Netflix Comedy

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Ted Danson is teaming up again with ‘The Good Place’ creator Mike Schur in a brand new comedy for Netflix, based on the documentary ‘The Mole Agent’.

Charles (Danson), a retired man, gets a new lease on life when he answers an ad from a PI and becomes a mole in a secret investigation. The currently Untitled Mike Schur/Ted Danson comedy series is based on the documentary ‘The Mole Agent’.

The doc, which was a 2021 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary feature, follows a private investigator who hired an elderly gentleman to go undercover at a nursing home after he was approached by a client who alleged that her mother was being mistreated by the staff.

Ted Danson is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actor known for an array of exceptional performances, most memorably for his portrayal of Boston bartender Sam Malone on NBC’s multi-award-winning and iconic comedy ‘Cheers’, which ran for 11 seasons and won three Emmys as Best Comedy Series. More recently, Danson starred in the acclaimed NBC comedy ‘The Good Place’, for which he was nominated for his 14th Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor and received a Critics Choice Award for his role as “Michael”. Danson also played himself in the quintessential comedy ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’, and has starred in series such as ‘Damages’, ‘CSI’, ‘Fargo’, and ‘Mr. Mayor’ among others.

Michael Schur created the wonderful (and Geektown favourite) series ‘The Good Place’ along with co-creating ‘Parks and Recreation’, ‘Rutherford Falls’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’. He is also an Executive Producer of the brilliantly funny ‘Hacks’ and ‘Master of None’. Prior to ‘Parks and Rec’, Mike spent four years as a writer-producer on ‘The Office’. His first TV writing job was at Saturday Night Live, where he spent seven seasons, including three as the producer of “Weekend Update” with Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon.

Schur and Morgan Sackett (Fremulon) and David Miner (3 Arts Entertainment) are executive producers. Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibañez are executive producers for Micromundo Producciones. Julie Goldman and Christopher Clements are executive producers for Motto Pictures. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, serves as the studio.

The currently Untitled Mike Schur/Ted Danson Comedy Series does not yet have a premiere date (or a title!) but we’ll let you know when we hear more!