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Punam Patel & Matt Rogers Join Vanessa Bayer’s Showtime Comedy Pilot ‘I Love This For You’

EXCLUSIVE: Punam Patel, who starred in Netflix comedy Special, and Matt Rogers, host of HBO Max's dog-grooming competition series Haute Dog, have joined I Love This for You, Showtime's comedy pilot written by and starring Vanessa Bayer. If picked up to series, the pair would appear as series regulars. Cybill Shepherd…

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Kumail Nanjiani, Kal Penn And South Asian Leaders Blast David Perdue; Mobilize Georgia AAPI Voters In #MyNameIs Campaign

During October, in the throes of the general election, Senator David Perdue deliberately mispronounced and mocked Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ name. This raised many eyebrows. Including members of the Asian community — particularly the South Asian community. In response to Perdue’s disrespectful behavior, South…

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‘Atypical’s Nik Dodani, Kal Penn, Maya & Meena Harris Return With ‘Brown And Down: The Sequel’ To Rally South Asian Voters For Georgia Runoffs

Atypical actor Nik Dodani and m Kamala Harris sister Maya Harris and niece Meena Harris have returned for Brown and Down: The Sequel to help motivate the South Asian community in Georgia to register and vote for the upcoming runoff elections. The video, which also features actors Kal Penn, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Manish…

Punam Patel To Co-Star In NBC’s Kenan Thompson Comedy Pilot

EXCLUSIVE: Punam Patel (Kevin from Work) is set as a series regular opposite Kenan Thompson and Andy Garcia in NBC's single-camera comedy pilot The Kenan Show (fka Saving Kenan), from Universal TV. Written by Jackie Clarke and directed by Chris Rock, The Kenan Show centers on a newly widowed dad (Thompson) determined…

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‘So Close’ Casts Punam Patel; Shoniqua Shandai Joins ‘The Greatest American Hero’

Punam Patel (Kevin From Work) has landed a series regular role in NBC comedy pilot So Close, from Hazy Mills. Written by Friends and Will & Grace alum Greg Malins, So Close centers on hopeless romantics Riley & Kyle. At a crossroads in their separate lives, they are close to settling for the wrong partner, unaware…

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‘Brown Girls’: Freeform Comedy Pilot Finds Its Leads In Punam Patel & Hina Abdullah

Freeform and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment have cast Punam Patel, who was a regular on their comedy series Kevin From Work, as a lead in the companies’ latest comedy collaboration, the pilot Brown Girls. Hina Abdullah (The Last Ship) is set as the other lead in the multi-camera comedy pilot written by Shilpi…

JD Pardo Joins ABC Pilot ‘The Jury’; Punam Patel In ‘Toast’

Revolution alum JD Pardo is set as a series regular opposite Jeremy Sisto, Archie Panjabi and Kevin Rankin in ABC's murder trial drama pilot, The Jury. Written by VJ Boyd and Mark Bianculli and executive produced by Carol Mendelsohn, The Jury examines "the ultimate social experiment" that happens thousands of times a…