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Do you like the Stonecutters song? How about "See My Vest"? Were you impressed when Bart Simpson and Michael Jackson sang a birthday song to Lisa? How do you feel about the celebrity-laced barn-burner "We're Sending Out Love Down the Well"? Do you like the stage musicals of "Checking In," or "Stop the Planet of the Apes! I Want to Get Off!"? I'm personally fond of the song about Spirngfield's brothel, "Spring in Springfield," a throwback to bawdy farces of the 1930s. And who could forget when Lyle Lanley led the entire town in a musical number about a monorail? Or when Homer, Apu, Seymour Skinner, and Barney formed a barbershop quartet to perform "Baby on Board"? 

Point being "The Simpsons" has featured many, many original songs in its 850-year tenure on television, and that doesn't even count the hit record "The Simpsons Sing the Blues" from 1990. Many of the...

Larry Wilmore says “finally.” Greg Grunberg says “Mazel tov! Writers Strike Deal!!!”

Bill Wolkoff promises not to picket Dancing with the Stars.

The Writers Guild has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its strike after nearly five months, and needless to say — the members have thoughts, lots of happy thoughts. And it’s all spilling out on social media.

Here’s a roundup of their reactions so far:

Billy Ray: “To all my fellow writers— You earned this. You saved our profession. Now let’s continue to stand w the actors. And IATSE. And the Teamsters. And labor everywhere. That’s how we’ll save America.”

Wolkoff: “Day 146. It gives me great pleasure to say we will Not be picketing Dancing With The Stars tomorrow! I really can’t wait to watch the premiere on Tuesday, because we did it!

Exclusive: Charlie Hall has booked a trio of TV and film projects with HBO Max and Disney .

Hall is currently in production for Jordan Weiss’ NewLine/HBOMax feature, Sweethearts, opposite Kieran Shipka and Nico Hiraga. He will portray the character of Simon, a hometown hero who was the star of his high school football team, but unfortunately, he was a big fish in a small pond.

The romantic comedy tells the story of two first-year college students who decided to stick with their high school sweethearts and now have to pull a “Turkey Dump” and break up with them over “Drunksgiving” – the one chaotic night before Thanksgiving in their hometown that puts their codependent friendship to the test.

Sweethearts is written by Jordan Weiss and executive producer Dan Brier; Weiss will also direct. Erik Feig and Jessica Switch are producing and Julia Hammer and Samie Kim Falvey...

Exclusive: A new student will be enrolling at Essex College. Mitchell Slaggert has joined the cast of Mindy Kaling’s HBO Max series The Sex Lives of College Girls as a new series regular for the upcoming second season.

Slaggert will join returning series regulars Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp, and Alyah Chanelle Scott in the half-hour dramedy.

Created by Kaling and Justin Noble, College Girls follows the lives and affairs of four roommates attending New England’s prestigious Essex College. Slaggert will play Jackson, a transfer student, arriving at Essex College after two years at a big party school. He is a former Division I athlete with natural confidence and a depth that begins to show over time.

Noble serves as showrunner and executive produces with Kaling along with Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein, and Matt Warburton. The series is produced by Kaling International in...

Exclusive: Ravi Patel (Wonder Woman 1984), Eric Edelstein (Creepshow) and Johnny Jay Lee (NCIS: Los Angeles) are set as series regulars in CBS comedy pilot Rust Belt News, from The Simpsons writer and The Mindy Project exec producer Matt Warburton. They join previously announced cast members Rich Sommer, Lauren Lindsey Donzis, Jayma Mays, Bailey Gavulic, Bentley Green and Angel Laketa Moore.

Written by Warburton and directed by Jeff Blitz, the project is set in a small Ohio town where the local newspaper goes out of business, leaving the ambitious, angsty reporters of the high school newspaper as the only people left to report on scandals, dig up corruption, and generally polish the rust off this rust-belt community.

Patel plays Dale, an emotionally needy principal at a working-class Ohio high school.

Edelstein portrays Joe, a goodhearted single father who takes a job as a night janitor at his daughter’s high school...

Exclusive: Rich Sommer (The Dropout), Lauren Lindsey Donzis (Punky Brewster), Jayma Mays (United States of Al), Bentley Green (Snowfall), Angel Laketa Moore (Atypical) and Bailey Gavulic (Fear The Walking Dead) are set as series regulars in CBS comedy pilot Rust Belt News. Additionally, Jeff Blitz (American Auto) has been tapped to direct and executive produce the single-camera comedy pilot from The Simpsons writer and The Mindy Project exec producer Matt Warburton.

Written by Warburton, the project is set in a small Ohio town where the local newspaper goes out of business, leaving the ambitious, angsty reporters of the high school newspaper as the only people left to report on scandals, dig up corruption, and generally polish the rust off this rust-belt community.

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Sommer will play Caleb, a jaded former journalist whose love of writing is reignited when he is recruited by Mack to help start an underground newspaper.

“Call Me Kat” actress Schuyler Helford’s teen-parenting comedy “Unplanned in Akron” has received a pilot order at CBS.

Written by Helford with Emily Wilson (“The Conners”) supervising, the multi-cam project follows two teenagers navigating parenthood in the best way they know how. With a little help from their friends and parents, they’ll learn that mistakes in life don’t have to derail your life – that no matter what age you are, taking care of a child is no joke – but sometimes, you just gotta laugh (or cry) your way through it.

Helford is co-executive producing the potential series. Wilson is an executive producer along with Samie Falvey and Erik Feig for PictureStart, and Chris Mills and Chris Emerson for Authentic.

“Unplanned in Akron” hails from CBS Studios.

The project marks the fourth comedy pilot order at CBS this development season. The others are “Rust Belt News” from Matt Warburton,...

CBS is going back into the vault for one of its latest comedy pilots.

The network has ordered two comedy pilots – Sober Companion, a project that previously went to pilot starring Justin Long, and The Hug Machine, directed by Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone.

Sober Companion is exec produced by Jane The Virgin creator/exec producer Jennie Snyder Urman.

The multi-camera comedy, which comes from CBS Studios, was originally set up at Fox in 2014 with Long in the title role and Nick Frost as the co-lead. However, the project, which was originally written by Urman and David Rosenthal, didn’t make it past the pilot stage and has now been retooled through a female lens.

The Long role – he played Jeremy in the original – has turned into Eliza, a hot-mess alcoholic who owns a bar with her uncle in New Orleans, but is forced to get her life together when...

The Simpsons writer Matt Warburton is working on a new comedy pilot for CBS titled Rust Belt News, based around a small Ohio town newspaper. According to Variety, the single-camera sitcom revolves around the ambitious but angsty reporters of a high school newspaper who are the only people in town left to report the news when the local newspaper goes out of business. Together these young newshounds must dig up the scandals and corruption plaguing their rust-belt community. Warburton, who served as a writer and producer on The Simpsons from 2001 to 2012, will write and executive produce the series. Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo of Alloy Entertainment are also on board as executive producers. Warner Bros. Television will produce. In addition to The Simpsons, Warburton was the showrunner and exec producer for all four seasons of The Mindy Project. He continues to be a frequent collaborator with Mindy Kaling, having written...

CBS has given a pilot order to “Rust Belt News,” a comedy written and executive produced by Matt Warburton.

The single-camera series is set in a small Ohio town where the local newspaper goes out of business, leaving the ambitious, angsty reporters of the high school newspaper as the only people left to report on scandals, dig up corruption and generally polish the rust off their rust-belt community.

Along with Warburton, executive producers include Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo on behalf of Alloy Entertainment. Warner Bros. Television is the studio.

Warburton began his career as a writer on “The Simpsons” from 2001 to 2012, also serving as a co-producer, producer, supervising producer and co-executive producer during his time on the show. He served as showrunner and executive producer of Mindy Kaling’s “The Mindy Project” for all four seasons, and continued working with Kaling afterwards, writing and producing on her shows “Champions” on NBC,...

CBS is moving on to its comedy pilots.

The network has ordered a pilot for Rust Belt News, a single-camera comedy from The Simpsons writer and The Mindy Project exec producer Matt Warburton.

The project is set in a small Ohio town where the local newspaper goes out of business, leaving the ambitious, angsty reporters of the high school newspaper as the only people left to report on scandals, dig up corruption, and generally polish the rust off this rust-belt community.

Warburton, who also worked with Mindy Kaling on a number of series including Never Have I Ever and The Sex Lives of College Girls, will write and exec produce. Alloy Entertainment’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo will also exec produce the comedy, which comes from Warner Bros Television.

The pilot order comes after Alloy founder Morgenstein renewed his deal at the studio and promoted longtime head of television Girolamo to EVP.

Shortly before midnight Wednesday, March 11, Brittany Barkholtz, a therapist in St. Paul, was having trouble sleeping. By the time she’d gone to bed, Donald Trump had attempted to reassure the country with a sullen prime-time address, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson had announced they’d tested positive for the coronavirus, Harvey Weinstein had been sentenced to 23 years in prison and the NBA had suspended the rest of its season after a Utah Jazz player had also tested positive for Covid-19.

Unable to sleep, Barkholtz popped onto social media and...

Norman Lear accepted Variety’s Creative Conscience Award Tuesday night at the publication’s annual Showrunners Dinner. The award honors Lear for his work promoting important causes both inside and outside the entertainment industry.

Lear, who appears on the current cover of Variety, recently renewed his overall deal at Sony Pictures Television.

Speaking at the Showrunners Dinner at Eveleigh in West Hollywood, Lear revealed the secret to how he keeps on working at 97.

“It amazes me to hear me described as 97 years old and that in three years I cross 100. But here’s another absolute fact I’d like to tell you, and that is I’ve always believed — that laughter adds time to ones life,” he said.

The legendary TV producer has been bringing laughter into people’s homes for decades, whether it be with his classic sitcoms like “The Jeffersons” and “All in the Family,” or with his...

Warning: obviously there are spoilers ahead for Hulu's Four Weddings and a Funeral!

It's all there in the title: someone's going to die when a show is called Four Weddings and a Funeral. Hulu's adaptation of the classic 1994 British rom-com spreads out its storylines over the course of 10 episodes, rather than a single two-hour movie, but the premise and format of the title remain the same. So who's the unlucky character in this iteration?

Four episodes in, we find out. The "funeral" in the title is for Quentin (Tom Mison), the perpetually drunk husband of posh ice queen Gemma (Zoe Boyle). Although none of the characters are exact replicas of those in the original film - in fact, it's surprisingly difficult to draw any sort of real character parallels between the original cast and this crew of characters - Quentin's death is definitely a shout-out to the storyline of the original.

If your biggest criticism of romantic comedies are that they end after a scant two hours, prepare to be charmed — hard — by Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral.

The new series, from The Mindy Project‘s Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton, is very much in the spirit of the 1994 British movie from which it gets its name. But the characters and situations are different, and the action unfolds over a TV season (the first four episodes of which began streaming today). In a moment, we’ll want to know what you thought of the premiere episode, “Kash With a K.

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the first seven episodes of Hulu’s “Four Weddings and a Funeral.”]

Rom-coms are dead, so they say. (And say.) The time-honored genre now threatens to become a never-ending obituary, but Mindy Kaling saw it differently: By subverting the cliches, she could turn Richard Curtis’ classic “Four Weddings and a Funeral” into a fresh and unexpected Hulu series.

Some things are familiar: Kash (Nikesh Patel) walks from the altar and finds himself at a crossroads. His father encourages him to explore an arranged marriage through the family’s mosque. So far, so prosaic: an arranged-marriage storyline, played for laughs.

However, these laughs don’t stem from a sense of “other-ing” the characters, a leering mean-spiritedness that can mar rom-coms. Kash’s burgeoning relationship is earnest, and organic — a key distinction for the trope-allergic young audiences whom streaming services attract.

Beyond the business motivations of adapting familiar IP, diversifying its cast and their storylines is a clever and strategic creative move.

Network: Hulu.

Episodes: Ongoing (hour).

Seasons: Ongoing.

TV show dates: July 31, 2019 — present.

Series status: Has not been cancelled.

Performers include: Nathalie Emmanuel, Zoe Boyle, Guz Khan, Sophia La Porta, Harish Patel, Nikesh Patel, John Reynolds, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Brandon Mychal Smith, and Andie MacDowell.

TV show description:

Based on the 1994 British film by Richard Curtis, the Four Weddings and a Funeral TV show adaptation comes from creators Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton. The series follows four American friends, Maya (Emmanuel), Craig (Smith), Ainsley (Rittenhouse), and Duffy (Reynolds), as they reunite for a wedding.

Maya works as the communications director for a New York senatorial campaign. Struggling through a heartache, when she gets a wedding invitation from...

Turning a universally beloved British romantic comedy into a TV series centered on a cast of American characters… piece of (wedding) cake, right?

Hulu’s new adaptation of Four Weddings and a Funeral — premiering this Wednesday on the streamer — has some huge shoes to fill, and executive producer Tracey Wigfield (an Emmy winner for her work on 30 Rock) admits to being “a little nervous” when she first signed on. After rewatching the original 1994 Hugh Grant/Andie MacDowell film, Wigfield remembers thinking, “‘Why are we even doing this? This feels like a death mission!'” But rather than try to remake a classic,...

What makes romantic comedies successful?

The outline of a meet-cute moment, a sudden realization that the potential couple cannot be together, a sweeping grand gesture, and a moving speech proving their love true while rendering the obstacle bunk generally delivers the goods.

The whole shebang also has to feel accessible to viewers even when it's otherwise far-fetched, and that's notably done through characters so well-written they appeal to a little piece of everyone.

Inserting yourself into the story is crucial; after all, what fun is it if you can't imagine yourself playing one of the parts?

Four Weddings and a Funeral comes from Mindy Kaling. You know her best for creating and starring in The Mindy Project. She knows her way around humor and romance.

Surely, appealing to a broader audience drove her adaptation of the classic film, Four Weddings and a Funeral, into a series with a diverse cast.

At the end of July, Hulu is dropping its new romantic comedy series Four Weddings and a Funeral, a modern-day update on the Oscar-nominated 1994 film starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell. The show comes from the minds of Mindy Kaling, Matt Warburton (The Simpsons) and Tracey Wigfield (Great News) and stars Nathalie Emmanuel, Brandon Mychal Smith, Rebecca Rittenhouse, John Reynolds, Nikesh Patel, and Zoe Boyle.

The new series deftly tells the stories of a group of American friends living in London as they navigate the titular four weddings and a funeral - plus London social life, political scandals, upheavals at work, and a reality show called Love Chalet.

However, there has been some criticism of the fact that while the film had a same-sex couple at its heart, the show does not appear to have any such couple (or even any main characters who are homosexual), something that might seem...

On Friday, Four Weddings and a Funeral stars Nathalie Emmanuel, Nikesh Patel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, and Brandon Mychal Smith, and executive producers Tracey Wigfield, Matt Warburton, and Mindy Kaling took the stage during Hulu's portion of the Television Critics Association summer press tour to

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In today’s TV landscape, the term “limited series” is a fluid concept (see Big Little Lies). That said, when Four Weddings and a Funeral co-creator and executive producer Mindy Kaling and showrunner Tracey Wigfield were asked at TCA if the Hulu adaptation of the beloved romantic comedy would follow suit with the popular HBO limited series and get a second season, they didn’t say yes…and they didn’t say no.

“Is that up to us?” Kaling said Friday, laughing, about the possibility of the series going beyond the “limited series” realm. “We’re still editing Episode 10!”

Wigfield chimed in saying that if the audience demanded it, a second season would be a possibility. Even so, she said they “wrote it as a complete story” that was a fulfilling 10-episode series. Whether it goes beyond that is up in the air. “Anything can be anything,” she said.

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After many were ready to proclaim their untimely death, romantic comedies have resurrected with a vengeance. “Crazy Rich Asians” was a cultural and box office sensation, and Netflix has struck gold with a series of low-stakes movies that subsequently created an entire cottage industry that runs on earnest charm and flirty banter. Combine that burgeoning success with Hollywood’s beloved “everything old is new again” ethos and it was probably only a matter of time before we got something like Hulu’s “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” a shiny new adaptation of one of the most iconic romantic comedies of all time.

The limited anthology series from Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton — the team behind “The Mindy Project,” a sitcom love letter to the rom-com genre — isn’t a reboot of Richard Curtis’ 1994 film. It rather just uses its premise of a group of friends weathering four weddings and a...

Hulu’s “Four Weddings and A Funeral” begins the exact same way as the 1994 film, with a madly panicked “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.” dash out of the house by someone who egregiously overslept.

But from that point forward, Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton’s show takes on a life of its own. The titular four weddings and a funeral will happen, of course, and there are plenty of homages to the rom-com classic sprinkled throughout the show, but the story that unfolds bears little resemblance to the Hugh Grant-Andie MacDowell dorks-in-love Best Picture nominee.

Interior decorator Ainsley (Rebecca Rittenhouse), school teacher Duffy (John Reynolds), and finance whiz Craig (Brandon Mychal Smith) are a trio of Americans that wind up moving to London after college graduation; the action opens when their pal, Maya (Nathalie Emmanuel) arrives to join them on the other side of the pond. Kaling’s...

What’s going on trailer-wise this week? We’ve got: a first look at an A-list Agatha-Christie-style whodunnit; a peek at the upcoming Wu-Tang Clan biopic series; a preview of an old rom-com favorite given a new twist or three; the trailer for the latest Jumanji romp; and an animated secret agent who looks and sounds a lot like Will Smith (at least until he’s turned into a … well, read below). It’s your trailers-of-the-week round-up.

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Hulu previewed its revamped version of rom-com Four Weddings and a Funeral with a breezy, snarky first trailer. Mindy Kaling and writer Matt Warburton (Community, The Mindy Project) co-wrote the pilot for the upcoming miniseries based on the 1994 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant.

The clip follows Maya (Nathalie Emmanuel), a political communications director from New York who flies to London for a friend’s wedding. There, she reconnects with three old friends and becomes entangled in their personal crises — from reignited love affairs to social and political scandals.

Four Weddings and a Funeral is coming to Hulu later this month, and it looks like a charming dramedy that is sure to be a hit.

The series is an anthology drama, with the first season spanning ten episodes.

Instead of the binge model adopted by various other Hulu originals, Four Weddings and a Funeral will unspool weekly from July 31.

It follows "four American friends — Maya, Craig, Ainsley, and Duffy — who reunite for a fabulous London wedding."

"But after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil, they must weather a tumultuous year of romance and heartbreak."

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"Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused, and of course, there are four weddings...and a funeral."

It is based on the 1994 movie of the same name.

When Missandei plummeted from that wall during the final season of “Game of Thrones,” audiences didn’t know she’d be resurrected so quickly — and in the form of a romantic comedy on Hulu. If only Daenerys had known her friend would be back so soon, and leading her very own Mindy Kaling show, maybe the finale of “Game of Thrones” would have turned out better for everyone.

The actress is now flexing her comedy chops in a series based on the classic 1994 romantic comedy starring Andie MacDowell and Hugh Grant, “Four Weddings and a Funeral.” Written by Richard Curtis and directed by Mike Newell, the original follows a group of clever friends over five social occasions as one reluctant couple falls in love.

This latest iteration was created by Kaling with Matt Warburton, her executive producer on “The Mindy Project” and a longtime writer/Ep on “The Simpsons.” Where...

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get our first good look at Four Weddings and a Funeral.

The Mindy Project‘s Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton are behind the anthology drama, which will premiere Wednesday, July 31, on Hulu; Season 1’s 10 episodes will roll out on a weekly basis.

Based on the 1994 Hugh Grant rom-com of the same name, Four Weddings and a Funeral follows a group of American friends who reunite for a wedding in London. But after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil, they must weather a tumultuous year of romance and heartbreak.

Hulu debuted the first trailer for Mindy Kaling’s “Four Weddings and a Funeral” TV adaptation on Monday, and it’ll make you believe in love and friendship again.

Watch the preview via the video above.

“Game of Thrones” star Nathalie Emmanuel is No. 1 on miniseries’ call sheet — a role that was originally booked by Jessica Williams, but ultimately got recast. Brandon Mychal Smith, Zoe Boyle, Jennie Jacques, Harish Patel, Guz Khan, Rebecca Rittenhouse and John Reynolds will follow Emmanuel’s lead. “Four Weddings” also locked down a connection to the original film, with Andie MacDowell appearing as a guest star.

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The show will follow four American friends — Maya (Emmanuel), Craig (Smith), Ainsley (Rittenhouse) and Duffy (Reynolds) — who reunite for a London wedding, but must weather a tumultuous year of romance and heartbreak after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil.

George Lopez, Andie MacDowell and Alex MacNicoll have joined Frank Grillo in the modern day western “No Man’s Land,” sources tell Variety.

“The Quad’s” Jake Allyn, who co-wrote the script with David Barranza Ibanez, will also star. Conor Allyn will direct.

The story, which is inspired by the real-life “no man’s land” between the U.S.- Mexico border on the Rio Grande and the U.S. “hard border” fences to the north, centers on a father-son vigilante patrol that is thrust into chaos after the son, Jackson Greer (Allyn), accidentally kills an immigrant boy. When his father (Grillo) tries to take the blame, Jackson flees south on horseback, becoming a gringo “illegal alien” in Mexico. Pursued by Texas Rangers and Mexican federales, Jackson embarks on a pilgrimage to seek forgiveness from the dead boy’s vengeful father (Jorge Jimenez), only to fall in love with the...

Exclusive: A spirited auction has ended with Universal winning the rights to an untitled comedy pitched around town by Mindy Kaling, Priyanka Chopra and Dan Goor. Kaling will write with Goor and she will potentially direct. Its a two-hander star vehicle for Kaling and Priyanka Chopra that takes place in America and India. The deal was closed before the WGA-Ata talks broke down this evening.

We heard that numerous suitors chased this one, including Legendary, Sony, Netflix and Amazon Studios, latter of which made the splashy Sundance Film Festival deal for Late Night, the comedy that Kaling scripted and stars in with Emma Thompson.

Kaling has an option to direct this film. She will write it with Dan Goor, who is co-creator and exec producer of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He is producing with Kaling’s Kaling International, Chopra’s Purple Pebble Pictures, 3Arts’ Howard Klein and Goor. Klein produced...

Save the date, Hulu subscribers: You are cordially invited to view the streamer’s Four Weddings and a Funeral series adaptation, which will premiere on Wednesday, July 31.

Season 1 of the anthology dramedy will span 10 episodes, which will roll out on a weekly basis.

Based on the 1994 Hugh Grant rom-com of the same name, Four Weddings and a Funeral centers on four American friends who reunite for a fabulous London wedding. But after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil, they must weather a tumultuous year of romance and heartbreak. Per the official logline, “relationships are forged and broken,...

Hulu has set July 31 for the launch of the 10-episode Four Weddings and a Funeral series.

The series will e available weekly beginning Wednesday July 31 and stars Zoe Boyle, Nathalie Emmanuel, Guz Khan, Sophia La Porta, Harish Patel, Nikesh Patel, John Reynolds, Rebecca Rittenhouse and Brandon Mychal Smith. The pilot script is written by Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton.

The series is executive produced by Mindy Kaling, Tracey Wigfield, Richard Curtis, Matt Warburton, Jonathan Prince, Howard Klein of 3Arts Entertainment, Charlie Grandy, Tristram Shapeero and Charles McDougall (Ep. 1 & 2). The series is produced by MGM Television and Universal Television, with MGM serving as the lead studio.

Here’s Hulu’s synopsis: “Four American friends reunite for a fabulous London wedding. But after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil, they must weather a tumultuous year of romance and heartbreak. Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned,...

Everybody wants to be in business with Mindy Kaling. On Wednesday, Netflix announced that it was ordering to series a TV show based on Kaling’s childhood experiences. Per the official description, the as-yet-unnamed series created by Kaling and Lang Fisher will center on “the complicated life of a modern-day first generation Indian American teenage girl.”

Massive streaming services from Disney, Apple, and WarnerMedia have yet to be unveiled, but at the moment, this series now gives Kaling a significant project at three major platforms. Back in January, Amazon Studios picked up Nisha Ganatra’s “Late Night,” a film that Kaling wrote and co-stars in alongside Emma Thompson, John Lithgow, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Ryan, Paul Walter Hauser and Reid Scott. Kaling also has a longstanding relationship with Hulu, after it helped revive “The Mindy Project” following its three-season Fox run. One of the first high-profile series to be revived by a streaming service,...

Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow) and Ashley Madekwe (Salem) are set to recur on Four Weddings and A Funeral, the Hulu limited series inspired by the British romantic comedy, executive produced by Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton. Tommy Dewey (Casual) also has been tapped for a guest role.

Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral, from MGM Television and Universal TV, with MGM serving as the lead studio, revolves around four American friends — Maya (Natathalie Emmanuel), Craig (Brandon Mychal Smith), Ainsley (Rebecca Rittenhouse) and Duffy (John Reynolds) — who reunite for a fabulous London wedding. But after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil, they must weather a tumultuous year of romance and heartbreak. Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused, and of course, there are four weddings… and a funeral.

Mison will play Quentin, Madekwe is Julia and Dewey is Ted.

Add a few more place settings to the seating chart: Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow), Tommy Dewey (Casual) and Ashley Madekwe (Revenge) are joining Four Weddings and a Funeral, TVLine has learned.

Mison will play Quentin and Madekwe will play Julia. In addition, TVLine has confirmed that Dewey — who showed up in Four Weddings executive producer Mindy Kaling’s Instagram Story from the set earlier this week — will play Ted on the Hulu series. All are guest-starring roles.

Nathalie Emmanuel stars in the series adaptation of the 1994 rom-com as Maya, an American who joins her friends in London for a wedding...

Exclusive: Brandon Mychal Smith, who just signed on for a lead role in Hulu’s series adaptation of Four Weddings and a Funeral, has signed with ICM Partners. Smith also plays Sam Dresden on You’re the Worst, which kicks off its fifth and final season on Fxx in January. It just wrapped shooting.

On the big screen, his credits include playing Little Richard opposite Chadwick Boseman in the James Brown biopic Get On Up, in addition to the Melissa Leo starrer The Most Hated Woman in America and Dirty Grandpa.

The romantic comedy series Four Weddings and a Funeral is heading into production now for a 2019 debut, with Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton writing and executive producing. From MGM Television and Universal TV, with MGM serving as the lead studio, the series revolves around four American friends — Maya (Nathalie Emmanuel), Craig (Smith), Ainsley (Rebecca Rittenhouse) and Duffy (John Reynolds...

Hulu’s TV series remake of “Four Weddings and a Funeral” has rounded out its cast, adding “Game of Thrones” star Nathalie Emmanuel in a recasting of the leading role originally set to be played by Jessica Williams. The show also locked down a connection to the original film, with Andie MacDowell signing on for a guest-starring role.

Other new cast members include Brandon Mychal Smith (“You’re the Worst”), Zoe Boyle (“Frontier”), Jennie Jacques (“Vikings”), Harish Patel (“Run Fatboy Run”) and Guz Khan (“Finding Fatima”). They join previously-announced cast members Rebecca Rittenhouse and John Reynolds.

The show will follow four American friends — Maya (Emmanuel), Craig (Smith), Ainsley (Rittenhouse) and Duffy (Reynolds) — who reunite for a London wedding, but must weather a tumultuous year of romance and heartbreak after a bombshell at the...

Hulu’s wedding plans have changed slightly: The streamer’s upcoming Four Weddings and a Funeral anthology has tapped Game of Thrones‘ Nathalie Emmanuel to play the lead role, replacing previously announced star Jessica Williams, according to our sister site Deadline.

Emmanuel will star as Maya, an American who reunites with her friends in London for a wedding, only to have a bombshell revelation at the altar throw their lives into turmoil. Per the official description, “relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused, and of course, there are four weddings…...

Exclusive: Andie MacDowell, star of the hit 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, is set to guest star on the Hulu limited series inspired by the British romantic comedy. She will play a new character in the project, written and executive produced by Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton, which has recast its lead, with Game Of Thrones co-star Nathalie Emmanuel replacing originally cast Jessica Williams.

The romantic comedy series, which is heading into production for a 2019 debut, also has added five new cast members, Brandon Mychal Smith (You’re the Worst), Zoe Boyle (Frontier), Jennie Jacques (Vikings), Harish Patel (Run Fatboy Run), and Guz Khan (Finding Fatima). They join previously cast Nikesh Patel, Rebecca Rittenhouse and John Reynolds.

Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral, from MGM Television and Universal TV, with MGM serving as the lead studio, revolves around four American friends — Maya (Emmanuel), Craig (Smith), Ainsley (Rittenhouse) and...

What is dead may never die, and so it is that “Four Weddings and a Funeral” will see new life courtesy of Hulu. The streaming giant has announced the cast of its new take on Mike Newell’s classic romantic comedy, with Jessica Williams, Nikesh Patel (“Indian Summers”), Rebecca Rittenhouse (“Into the Dark: The Body”), and John Reynolds (“Search Party”) starring in the new limited series. Mindy Kaling is handling the screenplay alongside Matt Warburton, continuing a relationship with Hulu that began when it saved “The Mindy Project” from cancelation.

Here’s the synopsis: “Jess (Jessica Williams), the young communications director for a New York senatorial campaign, receives a wedding invitation from her college schoolmate now living in London. She leaves her professional and personal life behind, in favor of traveling to England and reconnecting with old friends and ends up in the midst of their personal crises. Relationships are forged and broken,...

Hulu’s “Four Weddings and a Funeral” series has set Jessica Williams as its star, one of four names added to the show’s main cast on Friday.

The limited series, written by Mindy Kaling and “The Mindy Project” collaborator Matt Warburton, is inspired by the 1994 romantic comedy about a group of friends whose lives are connected by the five titular events.

Williams will star as Jess, the young communications director for a New York senatorial campaign who leaves her professional and personal life behind when she receives a wedding invitation from her college schoolmate now living in London.

The series has also added Nikesh Patel, “The Mindy Project” alum Rebecca Rittenhouse and John Reynolds to the cast.

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Kaling and Warburton will executive produce the limited series alongside Tracey Wigfield, Jonathan Prince, Howard Klein of 3 Arts,...

Jessica Williams (2 Dope Queens) will lead the cast of Hulu’s limited romantic comedy series Four Weddings and a Funeral Set to co-star in the project, written and executive produced by The Mindy Project creator, executive producer and star Mindy Kaling and executive producer Matt Warburton, are Nikesh Patel (Indian Summers), The Mindy Project alumna Rebecca Rittenhouse (Into the Dark: The Body) and John Reynolds (Search Party).

Inspired by the 1994 British romantic comedy film, Four Weddings and a Funeral centers on Jess (Williams), the young communications director for a New York senatorial campaign, who receives a wedding invitation from her college schoolmate now living in London. She leaves her professional and personal life behind, in favor of traveling to England and reconnecting with old friends and ends up in the midst of their personal crises. Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused,...

The upcoming Hulu series inspired by the 1994 film “Four Weddings and a Funeral” has found its main cast.

Jessica Williams, Nikesh Patel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, and John Reynolds have all joined the limited romantic comedy series.

In the series, Jess (Williams), the young communications director for a New York senatorial campaign, receives a wedding invitation from her college schoolmate now living in London. She leaves her professional and personal life behind, in favor of traveling to England and reconnecting with old friends and ends up in the midst of their personal crises. Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused, and of course there are four weddings–and a funeral.

Patel has been cast as Kash, Rittenhouse has been cast as Ainsley, and Reynolds has been cast as Duffy.

Williams broke out during her time on “The Daily Show,” and has since...

One of the 2 Dope Queens is adding Four Weddings and a Funeral to her calendar. Actress-comedian-ex-Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams has signed on to star in Hulu’s forthcoming anthology series based on the 1994 Hugh Grant romantic comedy, TVLine has learned.

Also boarding the Mindy Kaling-shepherded reboot of sorts are Nikesh Patel (Indian Summers), Rebecca Rittenhouse (The Mindy Project) and John Reynolds (Search Party).

Penned by Kaling and fellow Mindy Project Ep Matt Warburton, Four Weddings centers on Williams’ Jess, a young communications director for a New York senatorial campaign who receives a wedding invitation from a college pal now living in London.

Mindy Kaling isn’t just hopeful that Hollywood is changing in the era of #MeToo and Time’s Up — the “Ocean’s 8” star says she’s already noticing a positive shift toward gender parity.

“I’ve seen an enormous amount of change,” Kaling told Variety at the Palisades Village opening gala in Los Angeles, adding, “I’m noticing that even in hiring, that before you used to have to convince people, ‘Hey, the crew need to be like 50% diverse in some way, or ‘The show needs to reflect diversity.’ It used to be convincing people, and now you don’t have to convince people. They know. I don’t know whether it’s fear of being shamed publicly or litigation, but whatever it is, it’s working.”

Kaling didn’t always think the change would come. “Even just transparency of wages, it’s like, whoa, it won’t happen in my daughter’s lifetime.

“Champions” will not return for a second season at NBC.

Universal Television, with whom “Champions” executive producer Mindy Kaling has an overall deal, is said to be looking for a new home for the show. Kaling also has the upcoming “Four Weddings and a Funeral” project for Hulu through Universal Television, but there is no word yet on if Hulu will step in for “Champions” the way it did with Kaling’s previous network comedy “The Mindy Project.”

“Champions” centered on Vince, a washed up high school baseball star who reluctantly gave up his dreams to take over the family gym in Brooklyn. He lived with his sweet, naive younger brother, Matthew, and was on the verge of secretly selling the gym and moving to Florida when an old high school fling, unexpectedly dropped off their 15-year-old son, Michael.

The series struggled to find an audience from the get-go, averaging...

NBC has made a final decision on Champions, opting not to renew the freshman comedy for a second season.

The call came down to the wire, with the options on the cast expiring this weekend. I hear there had been discussions with Netflix about picking up the series.

The streaming giant has international rights to Champions. I’d heard that the Netflix pact stemmed from the close relationship between Champions co-creator/co-star Mindy Kaling and Netflix’s Bela Bajaria, who shepherded Kaling’s The Mindy Project at Universal TV, and that the international rights deal helped seal Champions‘ series order in May 2017.

Netflix will continue to carry the show internationally — it debuted on the streaming platform June 12 — but I hear the Internet network has opted not to pick up Champions for next season. There are still discussions about the show’s future elsewhere though I hear the options on the cast are not being extended,...

Hulu has elevated Brittany Hveem to the role of head of business affairs, where she leads business affairs for all development and production deals related to originals and will manage all aspects of business affairs strategy, policy and procedure.

Hveem previously was business affairs director at Hulu, which she joined two years ago. She continues to report to Chadwick Ho, senior VP and general counsel.

Hulu’s previous head of business affairs, Philip Matthys, left the company late last year to join Apple’s Worldwide Video team in a similar role.

At Hulu, Hveem most recently oversaw efforts for original series orders including: “Looking for Alaska,” a drama series based on the bestselling John Green novel from Paramount Television and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire; “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” a limited series written and executive produced by Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton, inspired by the 1994 British romantic comedy film; “Ramy,...