Ted Danson is headed again right into a retirement group — however to not clear up a thriller.
The Emmy winner and A Man on the Inside star has joined the forged of an Apple TV comedy sequence starring Elizabeth Banks. Rob Delaney (Disaster) additionally stars.
The at present untitled sequence from creators Liz Heldens and Matt Ward facilities on Heidi (Banks), a not too long ago divorced girl who’s trying to “secure a lively second act for herself and her kids,” the present’s logline reads. That’s derailed to a point when Heidi finds herself “coordinating her father’s retirement community sexcapades,” the place she kinds an alliance with the son of her dad’s girlfriend.
Danson will play Heidi’s dad, he of the aforementioned sexcapades. Particulars of Delaney’s function haven’t been disclosed.
The setting (although not the premise) of the Apple TV sequence echoes that of A Man on the Inside’s first season, by which Danson’s character is employed by a non-public investigator (performed by Lilah Richcreek Estrada) to research a theft inside a retirement group. Netflix ordered a third season of A Man on the Inside earlier this yr; Danson will seem on each exhibits.
Danson’s current credit additionally embody a recurring function on Curb Your Enthusiasm, NBC’s Mr. Mayor and The Good Place and voice work on American Dad. The 2-time Emmy winner is repped by WME, Constellation Media Group and Ziffren Brittenham.
twentieth Tv is producing the Apple TV sequence. Heldens (Will Trent) and Ward (Finest Drugs) govt produce with Banks, Max Handelman and Krissy Wall for Brownstone Productions; pilot director Jonathan Krisel; Quinn Haberman of Heldens’ Egocentric Mermaid firm; and Jason Winer and Jon Radler for Small Canine Image Firm.
