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Ted Danson Loves That His New Show ‘Man on the Inside’ Explores Aging (Exclusive)

Ted Danson stars in Netflix's series, 'A Man on the Inside,' playing retired professor and widower Charles who lands a gig as an undercover private investigator in a senior living facility. Here, he talks to PEOPLE about the role and why he loves how the series explores important topics.

In Netflix's new series, A Man on the Inside, Danson, 76, plays Charles, a retired professor who loses his wife and discovers a new hobby as a private investigator’s assistant, infiltrating a senior living facility to help solve a case. "We get to explore aging, all those things that, in this country, sometimes we're afraid to talk about, memory loss, everything, we broach with a tenderness and a seriousness still contained in a kind of light-hearted, joyful way," the Cheers star continues. "In my case, you get to follow Mike Schur's beautiful words and pretty much just react to the amazing actors that he's hired, and your job becomes more and more easy," says Danson, who starred as Michael on The Good Place.

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