Mindy Kaling’s NBC Project Is Headed to Fox
This is why actress/blogger/best-selling author Mindy Kaling is not getting her own Office spin-off: Vulture hears Fox is just about ready to order a pilot for a half-hour comedy written by and starring Kaling as an OB/GYN. The project was originally developed at NBC via Kaling’s overall deal with Universal Television, the Peacock’s studio arm. But NBC network brass decided to pass on the concept, putting the show on the open market. Fox, which has had success this season with the female-focused New Girl, pounced on the chance to develop the show. Universal will still produce. Zooey and Mindy, hanging together on Tuesday nights? To quote the poets Ingram and McDonald: “Ya mo be there.”
Mindy Kaling, who is the best, will write, executive produce, and voice a character for a new “animated comedy project” for NBC, Deadline reports. Parks and Recreation producer Alan Yang will helm a similar project. The Office and Parks and Rec executive producer Greg Daniels (also a King of the Hill co-creator) will executive produce both programs.
Her series is said to be about a team of female high school volleyballers.
Every year what I want to do completely changes. Now that the book has come out, I’m like, I love writing a book. A year ago it wasn’t something I thought maybe I could do. Now I’m thinking it would be fun to write a young adult novel, a funny one. But every actress in Hollywood has a children’s book out, right? Some actress will come out with, “Little Benny Has Celiac Disease” because it’s something they’re dealing with so they have to have a giraffe character with celiac’s. Let me be the one actress who isn’t doing “The Indian Girl Dealing With Being an Indian Girl.” If I did a young adult book, I’d want to do more like “Harriet the Spy.”
“It’s very hard to complain about someone saying you’re in Tina Fey’s immediate family. But I do think it’s a little unfair that there’s never any debate about whether there’s room for Will Ferrell, Steve Carell and Aziz Ansari. But with women, it’s like, OK, Kristen Wiig is having a moment now, we’re done, we’ll put the rest of them on the backburner. And that’s just ridiculous.
“If I wanted to appear modest, I feel like the thing to do would be to actually think about that question for a while as if the answer weren’t on the tip of my tongue. But I think all writers always have the answer. I’m most proud of a Michael Scott moment in the episode called “The Injury,” in which he’s talking to the camera about burning his foot on the George Foreman grill (he’s making bacon while he’s in bed). He says: “I like waking up to the smell of bacon—sue me.
~ Mindy Kaling, regarding the line she’s especially proud of having written. (
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I love your idea of remaking “Ghostbusters” with a female cast starring you, Emily Blunt, Taraji Henson, and Natalie Portman. Who would be your Stay Puft Marshmallow Man?
That T-Mobile girl in the pink dress. Every guy I know has a crush on her—she’s pretty and pristine and not edgy at all. She looks like the best girlfriend. Either her or a bottle of coconut water. Wherever I go, there’s a bottle of coconut water.
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