Casting News: Mindy Kaling Joins Running Point, Slow Horses Season 7 Adds 5, And More

Mindy Kaling is stepping in front of the camera on Netflix's "Running Point," joining Season 3 of the Kate Hudson-led comedy in a recurring role, TVLine has learned.

Kaling, who co-created and executive-produces the series, will play Divya, "the outspoken, confident CEO of a popular gambling app," per the official character breakdown. "Much like Isla (Hudson), she's proudly the first female leader in her male-dominated field. Their similarities end there, with Divya becoming a thorn in Isla's plans all season." (Hudson will also make her television directorial debut with the Season 3 premiere.)

Production on Season 3 is currently underway in Los Angeles; a release date has not yet been announced.

• Apple TV's "Slow Horses" has added the following five actors to Season 7: Varada Sethu ("Andor"), Ethan Moorhouse ("MobLand"), Tuppence Middleton ("Death by Lightning"), Merab Ninidze ("Homeland"), and Joshua McGuire ("The Gold"); character details have not been disclosed. Additionally, James Callis will return as Claude Whelan in Season 7 — an adaptation of Mick Herron's "Bad Actors," wherein Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) and his team are "on the hunt to find and neutralize a mole at the heart of British Government before they can bring down the state," per the official logline.
• Michael Urie ("Shrinking"), Sutton Foster ("Younger"), Lamorne Morris ("New Girl"), O-T Fagbenle ("The Handmaid's Tale"), and series scribe Zavior Phillips have joined Season 2 of HBO's Steve Carell-led comedy "Rooster" as guest stars. Details about their respective roles are being kept under wraps.
• Gwyneth Paltrow ("The Politician") is set to star in "The Apology," an A24 thriller that has received a two-season, straight-to-series order at Netflix, Deadline reports. Written by Joe Murtagh ("The Woman in the Wall"), the series "follows Evelyn (Paltrow) and Caleb Amspoker ,whose son was murdered 18 years ago in a cold case that gripped the nation. When a stranger suddenly appears and confesses, justice finally seems possible — until they learn the killer may get off with a reduced sentence. Faced with that unbearable truth, Evelyn and Caleb decide to take matters into their own hands."
• Mary-Louise Parker ("Weeds") has joined Julia Garner, Lewis Pullman, and Maddie Hasson in Apple TV's "Guilty Creatures" in a recurring role, Deadline reports. Based on Mikita Brottman's true-crime book, the thriller is set against a backdrop of sex and murder in the Florida Panhandle, exploring "the psyche of a torrid romance and subsequent act of murder between two young, adulterous but God-fearing lovers" and "the emotional toll of living as killers for 18 years." Details about Parker's character have not been disclosed.