Kate Hudson and Mindy Kaling Team Up on Netflix’s Running Point

By Angelina Mazza  |  January 21, 2025 | 4:04pm
Photos courtesy of Netflix
TV News running point
Kate Hudson and Mindy Kaling Team Up on Netflix’s Running Point
Listen to this article

Kate Hudson is trading meet-cutes for courtside drama. Netflix announced that Running Point, a new sports comedy from Mindy Kaling (Never Have I Ever, The Sex Lives of College Girls), Ike Barinholtz, and David Stassen, will premiere Feb. 27, 2025. Hudson—beloved by rom-com fans for How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and recently celebrated for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery—stars as Isla Gordon, an ambitious underdog who becomes president of the Los Angeles Waves basketball team after her brother steps down amid scandal.

The series follows Isla as she navigates her family’s skepticism and the pressures of proving herself in the male-dominated world of professional sports. Running Point draws inspiration from real-life Lakers co-owner Jeanie Buss, who serves as an executive producer alongside Linda Rambis, the team’s manager of special projects. This is the second recent series about the Buss family, following HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, which dramatized the rise of the Lakers in the 1980s. Other producers include Hudson, Howard Klein, and Jordan Rambis.

Joining Hudson in the ensemble cast are Max Greenfield (New Girl) as Isla’s fiancé, Brenda Song (Dollhouse) as the Los Angeles Waves’ chief of staff, and Scott MacArthur (The Mick) and Drew Tarver (The Other Two) as Isla’s brothers. The series also features Jay Ellis (Insecure), Fabrizio Guido (Mr. Iglesias), Justin Theroux (The Leftovers), Toby Sandeman (The Game), and Chet Hanks (Your Honor) as players, staff, and others within the Waves’ orbit. As with any Mindy Kaling project, I have to ask: Who will play the B.J. Novak insert?

All 10 episodes of Running Point will premiere Feb. 27 on Netflix.

 
Join the discussion...