‘The Mindy Project’ Adds ‘Glee,’ ‘Gossip Girl,’ ‘MadTV’ Stars

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The Mindy Project‘s medical use is staffing up.

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The arriving Fox comedy has combined stars from MadTV, Gossip Girl and Glee to a ranks, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The Office‘s Mindy Kaling stars as a young, new alloy who’s training to navigate her personal and veteran life and a hurdles that come between her query to find Mr. Right — or Mr. Right Now and has combined dual array regulars and one repeated role, fasten co-stars Chris Messina and Ed Weeks.

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Glee‘s Stephen Tobolowsky will play Dr. Marc Schulman, a avuncular conduct of a series’ medical use Shulman and Associates, who enjoys waxing philosophical — generally if his recommendation gets a younger staff (looking during you, Mindy!) to leave him alone. Tobolowsky recurred on Glee as Sandy Ryerson, a former conduct of New Directions before Matthew Morrison’s Mr. Schuester took over.

Tobolowsky (Innovative Artists, Framework Entertainment) replaces The West Wing‘s Richard Schiff, who guest starred in a commander as an unnamed alloy who oversaw a practice. 

Joining Tobolowsky as a array unchanging will be Gossip Girl‘s Amanda Setton, who will play Shauna Dicanio, a tenacious, Jersey-born bureau manager during Schulman and Associates who collects delinquent studious bills as if she were a annuity hunter. The CornerStone Talent Agency-repped singer played Penelope Shafai on some-more than 30 episodes of a CW array from 2008-12.

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Lastly, MadTV‘s Ike Barinholtz (who also happens to be an executive story editor on Mindy) will recover as Morgan Tookers, a new masculine helper during a practice, who was hired notwithstanding a miss of grave education — and tact, personal hygiene.

Morgan is a rehabilitated ex-con vital in Queens with his best friend, who also happens to be his 80-year-old grandmother and has his possess singular philosophies on life with his heart is always several sizes incomparable than his brain. He’s fiercely constant to his co-workers, and he creates it his personal goal to assistance them find adore and happiness. Barinholtz is repped by UTA and Principato-Young Entertainment.

Mindy Project, co-starring Anna Camp and Zoe Jarman, premieres Sept. 25 on Fox.

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