Netflix has released a trailer for brand new comedy ‘A Man on the Inside’, which re-teams ‘The Good Place’s Mike Schur and Ted Danson, based on the documentary ‘The Mole Agent’, and premiering this November.
Based on the Oscar-nominated documentary, the eight-episode comedy follows a retired man, Charles (Danson), who gets a new lease on life when he answers an ad placed by a private investigator and becomes a mole in a secret investigation of the Pacific View Retirement Residence in San Francisco. Posing as a new resident, he goes deep undercover at a senior living community, building heartwarming new friendships and a stronger bond with his daughter along the way.
The comedy also stars Mary Elizabeth Ellis (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Licorice Pizza, Red One) as Emily, a married mother of three boys who has to adjust when her father, Charles (Danson), makes a surprising late-life career move and becomes an undercover detective; And Lilah Richcreek Estrada (Chicago Med, Four Dads) as Julie, a San Francisco-based private investigator. Julie hires Charles to be her mole and pretends to be his daughter to maintain the ruse at the retirement home.
They are joined by two-time Tony nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences, Dune) as Calbert, a transplant from Washington, D.C., who’s the stoic eyes and ears of the Pacific View community; Two-time Emmy Award winner Sally Struthers (All in the Family, Gilmore Girls, Still Standing) as Virginia, the vivacious life of the party who immediately takes a shine to Charles; Eugene Cordero (Loki, Easter Sunday, The Good Place) as Joel, Emily’s husband, a supportive and exceedingly competent 10th-grade science teacher; Academy Award nominee Margaret Avery (The Color Purple, Being Mary Jane) as Florence, Virginia’s sweet best friend. Florence loves poetry and the Golden State Warriors in equal measure; John Getz (Transparent, Grace and Frankie, The Social Network) as Elliott, Pacific View’s resident lothario. Elliott immediately feels threatened by all the attention Charles gets when he moves in; Four-time Emmy nominee Susan Ruttan (L.A. Law, Sprung, Mom) as Gladys, a glamorous former costume designer from New York who lives next door to Charles at Pacific View; Lori Tan Chinn (Joy Ride, Kung Fu Panda 4, Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld) as Susan, the president of the Pacific View resident council, which she rules with an iron fist; Clyde Kusatsu (Young Rock, Never Have I Ever) as Grant, a Princeton grad at Pacific View who’s deeply concerned with you knowing he’s a Princeton grad; Marc Evan Jackson (Lessons in Chemistry, The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Dead to Me) as Evan, the client who hires Julie to investigate the theft of his mother’s necklace; And Jama Williamson (The Good Place, Parks and Recreation) as Beatrice, the Pacific View activities director who’s never had a bad day in her life.
The man behind the comedy is Michael Schur, who 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’.
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.
‘A Man on the Inside‘ Season 1 premieres Thursday, 21st November 2024 on Netflix UK and worldwide.