Mindy Kaling's new sports comedy with Netflix and Warner Bros. Entertainment is making waves at Pepperdine University — but not for a good reason.

Any time you throw out words like “ Kate Hudson ,” “new Netflix comedy show,” and “ Mindy Kaling ,” people are going to be eager to see what’s up. Enter Running Point, the half-hour series led by Hudson and co-created by Kaling,

While the pilot is promising because the premise is interesting, and Kate Hudson is pitch-perfect for the lead role, it’s not a stand-out premiere. The series launched on Netflix on Thursday. The show begins when Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson) steps in to run the fictional basketball franchise,

The "Running Point" creator Mindy Kaling said Jeanie Buss, the owner of the LA Lakers, approached her to make a TV show about her life five years ago.

There are plenty of great sports movies available to stream on Netflix right now, but what about sports comedy series? Mindy Kaling is one of the creators of the new Netflix show Running Point, which just hit the 2025 TV schedule.

Kate Hudson and Mindy Kaling team up in Netflix basketball office comedy "Running Point," which is fun and funny, if something of a lightweight.

Pepperdine University claims that the studios infringed on its trademarks with the fictional basketball team in the new comedy series.

Netflix has a huge lineup of titles set for next month, including a new original series from Mindy Kaling and Den of Thieves 2.

Mindy Kaling talks about using a poster of Seth in The Sex Lives of College Girls, creating Running Point about the Lakers basketball team despite being a massive Celtics fan and her daughter's critiques of her red carpet dresses.

The “Office” alum appeared in the second episode of “With Love, Meghan,” where the pair bonded over growing up as “latchkey kids.”