Hannah Mackay (“Peep Show”) and Ed Weeks (“The Revolting World of Stanley Brown”) are teaming up for a single-camera comedy about a liberal lesbian couple. The project is being produced by Mindy Kaling, who co-stars with Weeks in “The Mindy Project.” Kaling is also the creator and executive producer of the Hulu series. This new, untitled project “has landed at ABC with a script commitment plus penalty,” Deadline reports.
The show centers on “Laurel and Marisa who move with their teenage son to Laurel’s conservative hometown in Kansas to find that their assumptions about Middle America might just be wrong,” Deadline writes.
Mackay, Kaling, Weeks, and 3 Arts’ Howard Klein are serving as executive producers. Universal TV is the studio behind the project. Back in June, Kaling signed a multi-year deal with Universal TV that sees her acting, producing, and writing.
Kaling recently scored a put pilot commitment from NBC for a new single-camera sibling comedy she created with “Mindy Project” EP Charlie Grandy. The two penned the project.
Variety notes that this new project marks the “second consecutive sale at ABC for Weeks and Mackay. Last season, their comedy about a lesbian lothario and her cautious, straight male best friend, went to pilot starring Tattiawna Jones and Andy Ridings.”
Mackay is currently Objective Fiction’s Head of Scripted. She oversees comedy and drama development.
Kaling has been incredibly busy as of late. She recently sold the rights of an untitled film she wrote to Fox 2000. The comedy centers on a respected, long-time late-night talk show host (Emma Thompson) and the first female writer she hires (Kaling). The premise has been described as “The Devil Wears Prada” meets “Broadcast News.” Kaling is signed on to star in “Ocean’s Eight,” the all-female, star-studded “Ocean’s 11” reboot, and will play “Mrs. Who” in Ava DuVernay’s Disney film “A Wrinkle in Time.” Season 5 of “The Mindy Project” is currently airing on Hulu.