They just generally wound up being supporting players in shows led by less seasoned performers.
We still have plenty of those of late, including 82-year-oldHarrison Fordin support of Jason Segel onShrinking.
All that mattered were eyeballs, and what drove subscriptions.
Ted Danson in ‘A Man on the Inside’COLLEEN E. HAYES/NETFLIX
The traditional broadcast networks and basic cable channels have also had notable shows with retirement-age leads in that span.
Dansons Eighties peer Selleck just wrapped up 14 seasons at the helm of CBSBlue Bloods.
(Again, we age differently now.)
And now we haveA Man on the Inside, which debuted shortly before Thanksgiving.
Theres a sense of possibility for him, and for this unlikely but deeply satisfying TV subgenre.
Hopefully, we get lots more like it.
