“The Mindy Project” is getting a makeover when Season 4 picks up on Hulu, and there are going to be some significant changes to the series. “I feel personally – I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to the show”. “She has a kid now and Mindy’s behavior is now, ‘My kid should be a model”.
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The fourth season of “The Mindy Project” will premiere September 15 on Hulu.
“So she’s sort of at square one once the baby pops out”, said executive producer Matt Warburton. It went from being “we’re never going to do this show again” to “we’re going to have more work, we’ll [employ] these people and a crew”.
Speaking at the TCA press tour, Hulu’s head of content Craig Erwich also revealed that all original programming on the service will release one new episode every week.
Although Barinholtz joked this new freedom would lead to “full penetrative sex to open and close the episode”, the creative team promised that the tone of the show would not shift dramatically with the increased creative freedom.
What is still unclear is whether or not the show’s fourth season will be split up into batches of two, because as-is the idea of doing 26 half-hours of a single-camera comedy is completely terrifying within the span of a single TV season.
11/22/63, The Way, The Mindy Project and more will step away from the Netflix style of entire seasons at once.
“I think if we really changed the show too much and made it more risque and put it more on a tilt of stuff you might find on HBO or Showtime, I think we would turn off our core viewers”, said Barinholtz, who stars as goofy nurse Morgan.
“It just wasn’t performing up to a point that we felt we could make good business sense out of it anymore”.
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Explaining that characters on “The Mindy Project” can only change “5 percent at a time”, Kaling teases that some amusing situations are in store when Mindy’s “maternal instinct comes out”. Kaling said she is happy to give them more screen time because she was a supporting player on “The Office” who appreciated when she had more to do. But like an unexpected romantic comedy hero, Hulu appeared and rescued “The Mindy Project“. People always tell me we look alike. They’ll join previously announced guests like Frieda Pinto and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (as Mindy’s husband in an explored future where she never got involved with Danny).
