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Actress Tiya Sircar stars in the new Netflix film Good Sam and also appears in the NBC comedy The Good Place. Needless to say, there is plenty of “good” in her life. A Texas native and the daughter of Indian immigrants, Sircar’s journey to Hollywood was very, as she puts it, “pragmatic”. Many children of immigrants…

Netflix has set May 16 for the premiere of Good Sam, a feature based on the mystery book series of the same name by Dete Meserve, starring Tiya Sircar. Kate Melville is directing from a script by Meserve and Teena Booth. The film follows intrepid TV news reporter Kate Bradley (Sircar) who is assigned to uncover the…

EXCLUSIVE: Tiya Sircar, who currently recurs on NBC’s The Good Place, has been tapped as the lead in Good Sam, a Netflix feature based on the mystery book series of the same name by Dete Meserve. Kate Melville is directing from a script by Meserve and Teena Booth. The film follows Intrepid TV news reporter Kate…

From Zach Braff and Matt Tarses–the team that brought you Scrubs–comes a new ABC single-camera comedy Alex, Inc. Inspired by the podcast StartUp, it stars Braff in the role of radio journalist Alex Schuman, who quit his job to start his own company and podcast his way through the experience. "This is inspired by a…

Tiya Sircar (The Good Place) has landed a series-regular role opposite Zach Braff in ABC comedy pilot Start Up, from Sony TV and Davis Entertainment. Written by Matt Tarses based on Alex Blumberg's podcast, Start Up is about all the things that happen — the good, the bad and the ugly — when Alex (Braff), a guy in his…

Tiya Sircar has booked a heavily recurring role opposite Kristen Bell and Ted Danson in The Good Place, NBC's new 13-episode straight-to-series comedy series from Parks & Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator Mike Schur. The Good Place centers on Eleanor (Bell), a woman from New Jersey who comes to realize that…

Tiya Sircar has booked a series regular role on NBC's untitled royal family comedy pilot (aka Dumb Prince) written by Charlie Grandy and executive produced and directed by Amy Poehler. The comedy is set in the country of Modaria, known for the manufacture of mopeds and tiny cars, where the Faber family has ruled for…

Tiya Sircar has been cast as one of the leads in CBS' How I Met Your Mother spinoff How I Met Your Dad, replacing Krysta Rodriguez. In the vein of the original series, HIMYD tells the story from a female point of view, that of Sally (Greta Gerwig), and revolves around a new group of friends in New York. Sircar will…