Kate Hudson is about to star in Mindy Kaling‘s upcoming Netflix comedy collection set within the entrance workplace of an expert basketball workforce, Selection has discovered.
The untitled collection was ordered straight-to-series at Netflix in June 2021. The streamer has given the collection a ten episode order.
The official logline states, “When a scandal forces her brother to resign, Isla Gordon (Hudson) is appointed President of the Los Angeles Waves, probably the most storied skilled basketball franchises, and her household enterprise. Formidable and infrequently missed, Isla should show to her skeptical brothers, the board, and the bigger sports activities neighborhood that she was the appropriate selection for the job, particularly within the unpredictable, male-dominated world of sports activities.”
Hudson is greatest recognized for her movie work, although she has been in a number of tv reveals throughout her profession. Most just lately, she starred within the second season of the Apple TV+ drama collection “Reality Be Advised.” She additionally appeared in a number of episodes of the hit Fox musical collection “Glee,” amongst different reveals. In movie, Hudson gained a Golden Globe and obtained an Academy Award nomination for her position as Penny Lane in “Virtually Well-known.” Her different movie roles embrace “The right way to Lose a Man in 10 Days,” “Bride Wars,” “Deepwater Horizon,” “Marshall,” “Music” (which earned her one other Golden Globe nomination), and “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller.”
She is repped by CAA, Untitled Leisure, Full Protection Communications, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Kaling serves as co-writer and government producer on the collection together with frequent collaborators Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen, with Stassen additionally serving as showrunner. Elaine Ko was initially hooked up to jot down, government produce, and showrun, however she is not concerned with the venture.
Hudson will government produce along with starring. Jeanie Buss, president of the Los Angeles Lakers, can even government produce together with Lakers government director Linda Rambis in addition to Howard Klein of three Arts. Jordan Rambis will produce. Warner Bros. Tv, the place Kaling and her Kaling Worldwide banner are beneath an total deal, will produce.
