¨The Mindy Project¨is a Hulu series that aired on Hulu from 2012 until 2017 and lasted for three successful seasons.
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- The Mindy Project is an American romantic comedy television series.
- It was created by and starring Mindy Kaling.
- It began airing on Fox in September 2012.
- It finished its run of six seasons on Hulu in November 2017.
- The series was co-produced by Universal Television and 3 Arts Entertainment.
- The Mindy Project was cancelled by FOX on May 6, 2015. It was picked up by Hulu a week later.
- Mindy Kaling named her character Mindy Lahiri after acclaimed Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri.
- Chris Messina (Danny Castellano) played a small role in You’ve Got Mail (1998), a film that is frequently mentioned by Mindy (Mindy Kaling) and Danny throughout the show.
- The role of Dr. Jean Fishman was written specifically for Niecy Nash.
- Chris Messina missed the shooting of four consecutive episodes in season four, because he was busy filming Live by Night (2016).
- Nevertheless, he did guest voices in each episode.
- Various actors and actresses in the show have appeared in The Office (2005), including Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, Ellie Kemper, Anna Camp, Kelen Coleman, Zoe Jarman, Ed Helms, Timothy Olyphant, Beth Grant, and Paul Lieberstein.
- In the show, Mindy mentions numerous times how she’s from Boston, Massachusetts. In real-life, Mindy is from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Also, Mindy plays a gynecologist, while in real-life, her late mother was a gynecologist.
- The nightime establishing shots of the fictional “St. Brendan’s Medical Center”, are actually shots of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, even though the show is set in New York City.
- Dan Hedaya and Rhea Perlman played a former couple on Cheers (1982).
- Beth Grant (Beverly) and Garret Dillahunt (Jody Kimball-Kinney) appeared in No Country for Old Men (2007).
- Originally titled “It’s Messy”. The chosen title of the show was meant to be tentative.
- Many of the shows guest stars, including B.J. Novak, Ellie Kemper, Ed Helms, and Paul Lieberstein appeared on The Office (2005)
- Chris Messina (Dr. Danny Castellano) and Jenny O’Hara (Dot), Danny’s mother’s best friend, appeared in Devil (2010).
- Two stars of the 90’s sitcom Wings made appearances on The Mindy Project: Tim Daly and Steven Weber.
- Mindy Kaling and Beth Grant appeared in The Office (2005) season four, episode nine, “Local Ad”.
- There is a running gag that Beverly’s real identity might be ‘Susan Robinson’.
- Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon appeared in A Wrinkle in Time (2018).
- The series was nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy.
- Kaling originally developed the pilot for NBC, which had aired The Office. They passed before Fox swooped in and picked up The Mindy Project for 24 episodes in 2012.
- The Mindy Project was only one of a few TV shows in history to have as its star and be run by a woman of color.
- The show was originally called It’s Messy.
- Kaling decided to set the show in a gynecologist’s office because her mother, Swati, was an OB-GYN.
- Ed Weeks’ British accent almost didn’t make it to the small screen.
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