TV
Big events: The Great Indoors (Oct. 27, CBS/ Global); Pure Genius (Oct. 27, CBS/Global).
Big picture: Community’s Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) heads to the Great Indoors as a veteran adventure travel writer reassigned to an office job managing the magazine’s semi-useless millennials (i.e. the digital department). Of course, he only communicates in sarcasm, and they only communicate via social media. Co-stars include Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Stephen Fry as the mag’s top boss. Meanwhile, Pure Genius is a new medical drama that combines Silicon Valley, ER and House. Augustus Prew plays tech mogul James Bell, a man on a mission: spending zillions to create the world’s most cutting-edge hospital. Dermot Mulroney plays the requisite controversial, surly but brilliant surgeon.
Forecast: McHale will prove he deserves to be a comic leading man; Pure Genius will prove the public’s addiction to medical dramas is incurable.