‘A Man on the Inside’ Season 2 Gets Premiere Date, First Pics

Charles Nieuwendyk is back on the case.

Netflix has set a Nov. 20 premiere date for season two of A Man on the Inside, its comedy series starring Ted Danson as Charles, a retired professor who in the first season becomes an undercover agent for a private investigator (Lilah Richcreek Estrada) in a retirement community. The second season will see Charles taking on a new case — but maintaining some ties to the people he met in season one.

The latter fact is evident in the first photos from season two, which show Charles interacting with his friend Calbert (Stephen McKinley Henderson) and the director of the retirement community, Didi (Stephanie Beatriz).

Series creator Michael Schur told The Hollywood Reporter after the first season debuted that he would “sign up for this [show] through 2050” if Netflix wanted it, and that while that season featured a definite conclusion, he and the show’s writers left several doors open for future seasons.

“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,” Schur said. “… 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.”

The new case will take Charles to a college whose president (Max Greenfield) is being blackmailed. The season two description reads, “Who’s making these threats? Does it have something to do with the iconoclastic billionaire Brad Vinick (Gary Cole) and his proposed donation to the school? Charles finds no shortage of possible suspects, but his attention gets diverted by free-spirited music teacher Mona (Mary Steenburgen, Danson’s real-life wife), whose zest for life awakens feelings he thought he’d buried after the passing of his wife. Is he ready to open his heart again at this stage in his life? And more importantly, has he fallen for the very criminal he’s been sent to unmask? Meanwhile, his daughter Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) is inspired by the changes in her father and uncovers a long-ignored passion, while PI Julie (Estrada) embarks on her own journey of growth as she reconnects with an important figure from her past.”

The season two cast also includes Michaela Conlin, Lisa Gilroy, Madison Hu, Sam Huntington, Jason Mantzoukas, Constance Marie, Linda Park, David Strathairn and Jill Talley.

A Man on the Inside is based on the Oscar-nominated documentary The Mole Agent. Schur (The Good Place, Parks and Recreation) is the showrunner and executive produces via his Fremulon production company. Morgan Sackett, David Miner of 3 Arts Entertainment, Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibañez ( of Micromundo Producciones, and Julie Goldman and Christopher Clements of Motto Pictures also executive produce.

More photos from season two are below.