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Lilly Singh made her transition from online to linear in the best way possible — by premiering the very first episode of her new NBC late-night show A Little Late with Lilly Singh on YouTube before it aired on television. Taking over the 1:35am timeslot, previously held by Last Call With Carson Daly, Lilly Singh not…

Tennis icon John McEnroe has signed on to narrate Never Have I Ever (formerly known as the Kaling/Fisher Project), Netflix’s coming-of-age comedy series from Mindy Kaling, The Mindy Project co-exec producer Lang Fisher and Universal TV. McEnroe confirmed in an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers that he will…

In today’s TV landscape, the term “limited series” is a fluid concept (see Big Little Lies). That said, when Four Weddings and a Funeral co-creator and executive producer Mindy Kaling and showrunner Tracey Wigfield were asked at TCA if the Hulu adaptation of the beloved romantic comedy would follow suit with the…

EXCLUSIVE: Poorna Jagannathan (The Night Of) has landed a series regular role opposite Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in Mindy Kaling’s forthcoming Netflix comedy series. Co-created, co-written and executive produced by Kaling and The Mindy Project co-exec producer Lang Fisher, who also serve as showrunners, the Kaling/Fisher…

Mindy Kaling’s comedy-of-age Netflix comedy series has found its lead. Newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has been cast in the lead role of Devi following a worldwide open casting call for the untitled series from Kaling, The Mindy Project co-exec producer Lang Fisher and Universal TV. Ramakrishnan of Toronto was selected…

Mindy Kaling wrote Hulu's miniseries adaptation of Four Weddings and A Funeral, premiering on the streaming service this summer. Kaling was in a Conversation With Nancy Meyers at the Produced By Conference, and Meyers asked Kaling about her adaptation. Kaling may be the biggest fan of the movie directed by Mike…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney franchises like Avengers: Endgame and Aladdin have feasibly conquered the summer box office, leaving a string of recent female comedies — Long Shot, The Hustle and Booksmart — as collateral damage. However, Amazon Studios is hoping that its $13 million Sundance acquisition Late Night becomes an…

EXCLUSIVE: Mindy Kaling’s comedy Late Night, which she stars in, wrote and produced, will now go wide in theaters June 14 instead of June 7. Those in New York and Los Angeles will still be able to see the Amazon Studios film in its exclusive run June 7. The film played like gangbusters at Sundance, where Amazon…

Mindy Kaling was just 24 when she became both the first woman and the first person of color to join the writing staff of The Office. 14 years later, this January, her production company Kaling International sold the film she wrote, Late Night, in a record deal with Amazon at Sundance. She also just had her newest film…

EXCLUSIVE: A spirited auction has ended with Universal winning the rights to an untitled comedy pitched around town by Mindy Kaling, Priyanka Chopra and Dan Goor. Kaling will write with Goor and she will potentially direct. Its a two-hander star vehicle for Kaling and Priyanka Chopra that takes place in America and…

Netflix has given a 10-episode series order to a semi-autobiographical comedy-of-age comedy from The Mindy Project creator/exec producer Mindy Kaling, 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 pact with Warner Bros…

Mere seconds pass before several people are fired in this first trailer for Amazon Studios’ Late Night, with Emma Thompson as a monstrous boss and talk-show host doing the head-chopping. The assistant-firing Murphy Brown at her most ruthless was compassion incarnated compared to Thompson’s Katherine Newbury. Late Night…