As it approaches Christmas,Netflixhas decided to buck their usual trend of cancelation and give everyone the perfect gift, renewing theTed Danson-led comedy seriesA Man on the Insidefor a second season. The exciting announcement comes courtesy of the streaming giant, who took to X/Twitter to declare, “The heartwarming comedy series from Mike Schur and starring Ted Danson is set to return in 2025!”
Released in its entirety on November 21, and created by Michael Schur,A Man on the Insidestars the Cheers and Curb Your Enthusiasm star as retired professor Charles, who “feels life has nothing new in store for him. A year after his wife’s passing, he’s become stuck in his routine and grown distant from his daughter Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis). But when he spies a classified ad from private investigator Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada), he’s inspired to roll the dice on a new adventure. Charles’ mission: to go undercover inside the Pacific View Retirement Home in San Francisco and solve the mystery of a stolen family heirloom,” the official description reads.
The series has been a huge hit for the streamer,landing at the top of the chartsand achieving a near-perfect score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. Michael Schur declared his excitement about the return toNetflix Tudum, jovially calling Danson a “young up-and-comer" and heaping praise on Netflix and the team that helped bring the show to life.
“We are thrilled to make another season of A Man on the Inside, starring young up-and-comer Ted Danson. From our partners at Netflix and Universal TV to the writers, cast, and crew, it’s a truly exceptional team of talented and lovely people, with one notable exception (young up-and-comer Ted Danson, who’s kind of a nightmare).”
Michael Schur Would Happily Write ‘A Man on the Inside’ for Years to Come
Before getting the official greenlight forA Man on the InsideSeason 2, creator Michael Schur revealed that he has been planninganother adventure for Ted Danson’s Charles. He teased that a second series could shed some light on one of the most mysterious characters from Season 1. He said toTHR:
“You don’t learn anything about the private detective, really. There’s a scene in the documentary early on where Sergio is talking to his daughter, and they have a very brief conversation, but that’s all you see of her. It felt like a bunch of files on a desktop — ‘Oh, I can click on that and open it up, and I’ll bet there’s a lot of interesting stuff inside.’ So it both had a wonderful tone and a bunch of really good themes and interesting ideas, and also, I felt like there was a lot of stuff that I could expand on and explore.”
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“I felt sorry for my new friend, Larry David.”
Schur, who also worked with Danson on theacclaimed comedy seriesThe Good Place, is eager to work with the comedy superstar for the foreseeable future, even saying that he would be more than happy to keep writingA Man on the Insideall the way through to 2025.
“But before the season was even over, we had started saying [a second season] could be this, could be this, and trying to figure out how it would be different and how it would be the same. He can’t go undercover at Pacific View anymore. Obviously, that ship has sailed. But what you have at the end of the season is a 76-year-old man with a new lease on life and a new sense of purpose and a new kind of fledgling career as an undercover detective. … You have a lot of building blocks for future seasons.
A Man on the Inside
