Mike Schur reveals the biggest ‘mistake’ he sees fellow TV creators make

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“The Office,” and creating “Parks and Recreation,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “The Good Place,” enters the world of retirement homes for his new Netflix show, “A Man on the Inside.” It’s based on the documentary “The Mole Agent.”The show touches on “a lot of themes that I have been thinking about, as I think many people have: aging in general,” Schur, 49, told The Post. “My parents are [the main character] Charles’ age, roughly speaking, and so were many of my friends’ parents.

And then, the theme of loneliness, which I think is a really big issue in the country and the world right now.”Premiering Wednesday, Nov 21, “A Man on the Inside” follows Charles (Ted Danson) a lonely widower and retired professor who gets a new lease on life when he’s tasked with becoming an undercover spy in a retirement home, much to the bewilderment of his adult daughter, Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis). “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star Stephanie Beatriz rounds out the cast as Diddi, who runs the retirement facility, while Sally Struthers plays Virginia, a fellow resident who has a crush on Charles.

The show is the latest of Schur’s work to center on a zany cast of characters in a hyper-specific setting. “I think a mistake that people make sometimes in trying to develop a show is that they say, ‘I want to do a show on the International Space Station.

Wouldn’t that be cool?’ And it sounds cool, but then you’re like, ‘well, who cares where it is? Who are the people? What are they talking about?