Sports may not be this writers thing, but am I excited for a basketball drama that comes from the mind of Mindy Kaling and stars Kate Hudson? Hell yes. Take my time and money.
While we’ve known about the series for a bit, we haven’t had a name, but the good thing is, now we do.
The series is entitled, Running Point.
Kate Hudson stars in the the series as “Isla Gordon” and will executive produce. In the show Hudson will play, “the only sister in a family of competitive brothers” who has been “overlooked and under-appreciated her whole life.”
For Isla, “when a scandal forces her brother to resign, she is appointed President of the Los Angeles Waves, one of the most storied professional basketball franchises, and her family business. Ambitious and often overlooked, Isla will have to prove to her skeptical brothers, the board, and the larger sports community that she was the right choice for the job, especially in the unpredictable, male-dominated world of sports.”
In addition to Hudson, also starring in Running Point are Brenda Song, Drew Tarver, Scott MacArthur, Fabrizio Guido, Toby Sandeman, Chet Hanks, Max Greenfield, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Roberto Sanchez, Uche Agada and Dane DiLiegro.
There will be 10 episodes of the show, with David Stassen serving as showrunner. The show will be written by Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Netflix’s Never Have I Ever), Ike Barinholtz (History of the World, The Mindy project), and David Stassen (History of the World, The Mindy Project). All three serve as EP’s also.
