Starring as an explorer in The Great Indoors

Stephen Fry could follow his comedy parter Hugh Laurie to US success.

The renaissance man, who recently stood down as host of QI, has landed a role in a new comedy series being piloted for the CBS network.

He will play one of the two leads in The Great Indoors alongside Community's Joel McHale, Hollywood website Deadline reports.

McHale plays a character called Joel, a reporter on an adventure magazine founded by Fry's character Antonio, a charismatic international explorer.

The employee-boss dynamic between the pair has been compared to that between Tina Fey’s Liz Lemon and Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock.

The Great Indoors revolves around Joel's struggles as he becomes the boss of a group of youngsters in the digital department of their magazine.

It has been written by  Mike Gibbons, who created the hit clip show Tosh.0 and has been an executive producer on the Late Late Show with James Corden.

The cast also includes Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Shaun Brown and Christine Ko.

The Great Indoors is not Fry's first American pilot, having a role in the Greg Garcia's Super Clyde in 2013, which was not picked up for a series. But he is known to US viewers thanks to recurring roles in Bones and 24: Live Another Day.
 

Published: 16 Mar 2016