Edward Charles Egerton “Ed” Weeks is an English actor, comedian, writer and producer. He plays Dr. Jeremy Reed on the Fox (now Hulu) comedy series The Mindy Project.
Hannah Mackay is a British television comedy producer. Most recently she produced the final series of Peep Show for Objective Productions. Prior to that she script edited two series of Toast of London and three series of Fresh Meat.
The Mindy Project co-star Ed Weeks has partnered with the comedy series’ creator, executive producer and lead Mindy Kaling for a comedy project, which has landed at ABC with a script commitment plus penalty.
Co-written by Weeks and Hannah Mackay (Peep Show), the untitled single-camera comedy centers on liberal lesbian couple Laurel and Marisa who move with their teenage son to Laurel’s conservative hometown in Kansas to find that their assumptions about Middle America might just be wrong. Weeks, MacKay, Kaling and 3 Arts’ Howard Klein executive produce. Universal TV, where Kaling inked a big writing, producing and acting deal this past summer, is the studio.
Under the pact, Kaling also has a high-profile single-camera sibling comedy comedy at NBC with a put pilot commitment, which she is writing/exec producing with The Mindy Project executive producer Charlie Grandy. Kaling is repped by CAA and 3 Arts.
This is the second consecutive sale at ABC for Weeks and Mackay. Last season, their comedy about a lesbian lothario and her cautious, straight male best friend, went to pilot starring Tattiawna Jones and Andy Ridings.
Weeks is repped by WME, United Agents, and attorney Jared Levine. Mackay is repped by CAA, attorney Jared Levine, and in the UK by Independent Talent Group.
The Mindy Project’s fifth season currently airs on Hulu.
ABC Buys Lesbian-Straight Relationship Comedy From ‘Mindy Project’s Ed Weeks | Deadline | Nov 9, 2015
The Mindy Project co-star Ed Weeks has sold a project as a writer, half-hour comedy Wing Person, which has been set up at ABC.
Co-written by Weeks and fellow Brit Hannah Mackay (Peep Show), Wing Person is the story of the co-dependent relationship between a lesbian lothario and her cautious, straight male best friend. Anne Brogan, Val Ames, Melanie Stokes and Siobhan Bachman are executive producing for London-based Kindle Entertainment.
Weeks stars as Dr. Jeremy Reed on The Mindy Project, which is now in its fourth season on Hulu. He’s also set to guest star on Showtime’s House Of Lies as Daniel Hathaway, a dapper auction-house CEO who tries to bid on Jeannie (Kristen Bell).
Weeks is repped by WME, United Agents, and attorney Jared Levine. Mackay is repped in the UK by Independent Talent Group.