Mindy Kaling and Max Greenfield will partner up to adapt Tess Sanchez’s “We’ve Decided To Go In A Different Direction” into a series at Warner Bros. Television.
The bestselling book of essays reflects on her time as a Hollywood casting director as well as the industry turmoil that prompted her role to be eliminated and for her to pivot her career while navigating her marriage and family commitments.
“We’ve Decided To Go In A Different Direction” was first published by Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery in 2025, with a foreword written by Sanchez’s husband, Greenfield.
Sanchez is attached to executive produce the series, which doesn’t have a distributor attached, alongside Greenfield and Kaling. The search for a creator and writer for the comedy series is underway.
Greenfield and Kaling first collaborated on “The Mindy Project,” in which Greenfield appeared in two episodes, but more recently have partnered on Warner Bros. TV-produced “Running Point,” which Kaling co-created with Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen.
Sanchez headed up casting on “The Mindy Project,” which is where she and Kaling first worked together. But years before that, she was behind the casting of “New Girl,” which gave Greenfield his big break as Schmidt.
Sanchez was the VP of talent and casting at the WB starting in 2007, where she had a major hand in shaping the cast of classics like “Felicity,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Supernatural.”
She moved over to Fox in 2009, and there, served as EVP of casting, where she developed hits like “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “9-1-1” and “The Mindy Project.”
Greenfield has starred in a suite of TV series and films since “New Girl,” including Netflix’s “Don’t Say Good Luck,” but has only been attached as a producer on “Fist Fight” and “The Gentlemen’s League.”
Beyond “The Mindy Project” and “Running Point,” Kaling has been behind series including HBO Max’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever,” Hulu’s “Not Suitable Work” and NBC’s “Champions.”
