“Brown Girls” has been given a pilot order from Freeform, the network behind “Pretty Little Liars,” “The Fosters,” and “Switched at Birth,” Deadline reports. The multi-camera comedy hails from writer-producers Shilpi Roy (“Hipsterhood”) and Nastaran Dibai (“According to Jim”), and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.

Roy and Dibai penned the pilot for “Brown Girls.” The project “centers on the relationship between Rimmi, an Indian-American aspiring beauty vlogger, and Devi, a young woman who has recently emigrated from India,” writes Deadline. “Brought together by family, Rimmi and Devi instantly clash over their different views on modern life and love while slowly realizing they both have something to learn from one another.”

Dibai will executive produce “Brown Girls” alongside Kaplan, Tracy Katsky, and Dana Honor, and Roy will co-executive produce. Mark Cendrowski (“The Big Bang Theory”) is in negotiations to direct. Roy has experience directing — her credits include web series and shorts — so if the pilot gets greenlit it seems likely that she’ll sit in the director’s chair at some point.

“We love this odd couple comedy not just because it is a sophisticated, funny show but we are thrilled to tell a story about part of the American experience that isn’t really on TV today,” said Freeform’s Karey Burke.

The TV landscape doesn’t include many stories about Indian-Americans, and the medium remains overwhelmingly white. Research conducted by Dr. Martha Lauzen and The Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film found that 71 percent of female characters on broadcast network programs in the 2015–6 season were white, 17 percent were black, five percent were Latina, five percent were Asian, and two percent were of some other race or ethnicity.