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Former Greendale Gang member Joel McHale has been cast as the lead in The Great Indoors, CBS’ workplace comedy pilot from Tosh.0 co-creator Mike Gibbons.
The multi-cam sitcom finds McHale playing the longtime star reporter for The Great Outdoors magazine who has climbed mountains, confronted bears, and just generally led a life of excitement and adventure. But when he’s sidelined by an injury, he’s forced to take a desk job in the publication’s digital and social media department, surrounded by a team of millennials who view him as an exotic and ancient oddity from another place and time.
McHale post-Community credits include guest stints in Fox’s X-Files revival and ABC’s Dr. Ken (opposite Community cohort Ken Jeong).
