Netflix's A Man On The Inside bowing out after season 3

The final season, now in production, features new guest stars Stephen Root, Annette O'Toole, Bernadette Peters, and Nick Offerman, among others.

Netflix's A Man On The Inside bowing out after season 3

A Man On The Inside, the Ted Danson-led original series about a widower who becomes a PI amid late retirement, will come to an end with its upcoming third season. Based on Maite Alberdi’s 2020 documentary The Mole Agent, Inside follows Charles Nieuwendyk (Danson), whose burgeoning career as a private investigator yields warm-hearted mysteries featuring a host of impressive guest stars. (Think a sweeter, senior-friendly TV version of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, or a lower-budget Only Murders In The Building.) This latest season, now in production in San Francisco, finds Charles embroiled in the intrigues of Coco Van Beck (Bernadette Peters), the “Grand Dame of San Francisco society,” who tasks Charles with weeding out the saboteur disrupting her philanthropic work. 

This knotty yarn will bring into the Inside fold suspicious yet wonderful guest stars like Annette O’Toole as Kitt, Coco’s oldest friend; Christopher McDonald as Coco’s presumably shady third ex-husband, Leland; Diedrich Bader as Mark, a real estate tycoon with a beef with Coco; Nick Offerman as Jack, Coco’s employee who takes “a special interest” in Charles’s investigation; Rachel Dratch as Maud, Coco’s put-upon assistant; and Stephen Root as Charles’s estranged brother Dave, who “has some old scores to settle.” Who’s trying to undo Coco? Charles is on the case!

“[A Man On The Inside] began with a retiree taking a chance at a new life. By answering a help wanted ad and venturing out into the world, Charles Nieuwendyk made his world bigger and proved that life only slows down if you let it,” Mike Schur, the series’ creator and showrunner, said in an announcement. “We are thrilled to be able to conclude his journey with one final chapter, as embodied by the great Ted Danson, who I am legally required to refer to as a ‘National Treasure.’” Danson and his new guest stars join series regulars Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Lilah Richcreek Estrada, Stephanie Beatriz, Eugene Cordero, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sally Struthers, and Mary Steenburgen. 

 
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