Netflix is showing great faith in Mindy Kaling. The streamer has handed out a 10-episode series order to a semi-autobiographical comedy-of-age comedy from The Mindy Project creator/exec producer. The project is also executive produced by The Mindy Project co-exec producer Lang Fisher and Universal TV where Kaling had been based for a decade and a half before recently signing a big deal with Warner Bros. TV.
Kaling also serves as a showrunner on the project which is about the complicated life of a modern-day first-generation Indian American teenage girl, inspired by Kaling’s own childhood. Kaling co-created & co-wrote the series with Lang Fisher.
Kaling has had an impressive rise and it only seems to be getting better. Kaling landed her first TV staff-writing job on the first season of NBC/Uni TV’s The Office. She became a rising star, ascending to an executive producer on the Emmy-winning series where she also played customer service representative Kelly Kapoor. She went on to create, executive produce and star in the praised Uni TV comedy The Mindy Project, which ran for six seasons, three on Fox and three on Hulu.
Kaling’s feature Late Night, on which she serves as producer, writer, and star opposite Emma Thompson, made a strong debut at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Amazon Studios for a record-breaking North American distribution deal. She was last seen on the big screen in Ocean’s 8 and recently finished production on a mini-series adaptation of the popular film Four Weddings and a Funeral for Hulu which she served as a writer and executive producer.
