# The Great Indoors (2016)

> An old-school adventure reporter is promoted to run a team of millennials in his magazine's digital department.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/59116

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 22
- Episode runtime: 21 min
- Status: Canceled
- Genres: comedy
- Created by: Mike Gibbons
- Network: CBS
- Cast: Joel McHale, Stephen Fry, Susannah Fielding, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Shaun Brown, Christine Ko, Chris Williams, Deborah Baker Jr.
- TMDB rating: 6.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5485566/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: breezy, witty, light, good-natured

## What critics say

Audiences found the single-season workplace sitcom about a veteran adventure reporter managing millennials at a magazine's digital department weak and it was not renewed.

## Synopsis

The Great Indoors (2016-2017) is a US multi-camera workplace sitcom created by Mike Gibbons for CBS. Joel McHale plays Ashley Jack Gordon, a seasoned adventure reporter whose world is upended when he is made the boss of a group of millennials in the digital department of a print magazine. The engine of the show is his struggle to adapt his old-school instincts to a team that lives online, chasing clicks, trends and deadlines while he clings to traditional reporting. Stephen Fry plays Roland, a veteran figure whose presence adds dry, wry counterpoint to the chaos, and Susannah Fielding plays Brooke among the younger staff whose friction and camaraderie drive many episodes. Each episode is a self-contained 21-minute comedy built around a modern media problem, a office mishap or a generational misunderstanding. The single season ran 22 episodes before the show was canceled. The tone is light, breezy and gently absurd, with an emphasis on warm banter and the comedy of mismatched sensibilities. Fans of The Office (US) and Ghosts will find resonance in its ensemble of quirky coworkers and its good-natured look at workplace change. Its audience rating was modest, and the series remains a brief, easygoing sitcom about a magazine office in transition.

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