Nisha Ganatra’s star continues to rise. The director is currently filming her first pilot, and now comes word that she’ll helm “Late Night,” a Fox 2000 comedy starring Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson that’s written by the former. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.

“Late Night” sees Thompson playing a late-night host who’s in danger of losing her long-running talk show right when she hires her first female writer (Kaling).

“Paul Feig was previously attached to direct but exited due to scheduling conflicts,” THR writes.

Ganatra made her feature directorial debut with 1999’s “Chutney Popcorn,” a dramedy about a lesbian who offers to serve as a surrogate for her infertile sister. “Transparent,” “Girls,” and “Better Things” are among her TV credits, as is Kaling’s own series “The Mindy Project.” The pilot Ganatra is working on is TNT’s “Highland,” an hourlong comedic drama centering on two Korean-American families that’s written by and starring Margaret Cho.

“Looking back, I can see [directing] was always an interest, but my parents were first generation immigrants from India,” Ganatra has said. “My mom came from a pretty small village in the North. My Dad was from Mumbai, but somehow the major film industry presence there didn’t really enter his consciousness. So, film was not a career option. It didn’t even exist for them in the realm of possibility,” she observed. “Looking back, I think I was always trying to make a video for that history presentation, so I did have an interest, but it took me so long to discover that this was even an option.”