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The Great Indoors - Joel McHale, Stephen Fry, Shaun Brown, Christine Ko, Susannah Fielding, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse By Allison Gilbert As most transplant Angelinos know, moving Great Indoors, which is set in the wonderful interacting with someone you’ve engaged in across the country can be difficult. There are the Windy City. I find many joys in working on a arguments with over the price of a Chicago dog logistical aspects: packing all your belongings, show set in my hometown. The backdrops of in a professional setting. The show has tracked finding affordable movers, convincing your our set feature some of my favorite views of characters’ movements across the city, giving mother that the Black Dahlia murder was the city, including some of the most beautiful me the pleasure of seeing my favorite characters probably a one-off instance and not very likely buildings that so often get left out of Hollywood traipsing across my favorite corners of Chicago. to happen to you. But the hardest part of moving representations of Chicago. The set for Eddie’s Chicago’s culture informs the world of The thousands of miles away is saying goodbye to bar strongly resembles the dive bars of my Great Indoors, as it explores Chicago’s piano your hometown. In my case, that means saying post-college years, right down to the “Wrigley bars, the woods and nature surrounding the city goodbye to Chicago. Chicago is, in my highly Field This Way” sign at which I scoff at every and the affordability, or lack thereof, of Chicago biased opinion, the greatest city on the face of opportunity. (Go, Go White Sox). rental real estate. the Earth, and leaving it was not easy. As my Perhaps most exciting is how Chicago’s There are aspects of Chicago no television westbound plane flew out of Midway airport, I culture is incorporated into the world of our show could reflect. Cameras simply cannot stared out the window and took in my favorite show. Not only did we include the legendary capture things like the inherent mistrust of all skyline one last time, wondering how long it Wiener’s Circle hot dog stand into two local politicians, a deep-seated hatred of Indiana would be before I would see it again. episodes, but also an actual Wiener’s Circle or the ever-present scent of hot dog water in the The answer, it turned out, was not long. employee was cast to play the potty-mouthed air. And there are traits that I feel are imperative For, as luck would have it, I got a job on The employee. There is an inexplicable joy in Continued on page 3 1 PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

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to any documentation of Chicago that simply do not make sense to non-natives, and therefore cannot be included in the show. This can be tricky for me as the self-proclaimed Chicago Cultural Consultant (a sad little title I gave myself). For instance, there was a heated debate in our writers’ room over whether Chicagoans

PHOTO: Michael Yarish ©2016 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved ©2016 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. Yarish Michael PHOTO: would call sugary, carbonated beverages “pop” or “soda.” I lost, but know this, if I die at my desk, let “it’s called pop” be my epitaph. At the end of my sometimes eighteen hour day, I could not be happier than to help bring a little piece of my city to the masses. Chicago may be one of the largest cities in the country, but it is often dwarfed by New York when it comes to TV representation. Other times, news coverage too often reflects the darkest, most

violent stories of Chicago, particularly my All Rights Reserved Monty Brinton ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. PHOTOS: beloved South Side, rather than the resilience, humor and joy reflected in the characters ofThe On Monday, Feb. 6, CBS Entertainment Diversity, CBS Entertainment Communications and CBS Great Indoors each week. Home may be where TV Studios hosted an exclusive screening of the new CBS comedy Superior Donuts. Invited guests the heart is, but for me, it seems home is where Chicago is. And, luckily enough, I’ve found a participated in a live tweet during the east coast feed and enjoyed stand up performances by Jermaine little slice of home right here on Stage 2. Fowler, David Koechner, Maz Jobrani, Rell Battle and Darien Sills-Evans. Dee’s FlowersFlowers

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