"A Man on the Inside" star Ted Danson on aging: "Don't slow down, just keep going, keep living your life"

Sitting down to talk about his new TV show, Ted Danson admits he is nervous. Why? "Because I want people to see it, I really do," he said. "I think it's an important conversation."

It's strange to think of Danson as nervous about anything, but in this case, it's not hard to see why: his latest project means a lot to him, about a subject that touches everyone. In the new Netflix series "A Man on the Inside," Danson is a recently-retired widower without much to do, until he answers an ad from a private investigator, and becomes a mole inside a nursing home.

Like a lot of TV series, the premise seems a little far-fetched, but this one's true: it's based on "The Mole Agent," a 2020 documentary about a real-life 83-year-old who goes undercover in a Chilean nursing home looking for signs of patients being mistreated. What the documentary found was a group of elderly people fighting loneliness and loss with heart and humor.