10 Things you didn’t know about The Mindy Project

1. Chris Messina (Danny Castellano) plays a small role in the romantic comedy You've Got Mail, which is frequently mentioned by both Mindy and Danny throughout the show.
2. After being cancelled by Fox on 6 May 2015, The Mindy Project was picked up by Hulu just a week later in a move that had been expected.
3. Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, Ellie Kemper, Anna Camp, Kelen Coleman, Zoe Jarman, Ed Helms, Timothy Olyphant and Beth Grant have all appeared in The Office.
4. Despite being set in New York, the night shots of St. Brendan’s Medical Centre are actually shots of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia. This is more obvious in some shots, which actually include Philadelphia City Hall in the background topped with the statue of William Penn.
5. Mindy Kaling plays a gynecologist while, in real life, Mindy's late mother was a gynecologist.
6. Mindy Kaling named her character Mindy Lahiri after acclaimed Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri.
7. Chris Messina (Dr. Danny Castellano) and Jenny O'Hara, who plays Dot, Danny's mother's best friend, were both in the 2010 movie "Devil".
8. The role of Dr. Jean Fishman was written specifically for Niecy Nash.
9. In the show, Rhea Perlman and Dan Hedaya play Danny Castellano’s divorced parents. Perlman and Hedaya also played ex's Carla and Nic Tortelli on Cheers.
10. Beth Grant (Beverly) and Garret Dillahunt (Jody Kimball-Kinney) both appeared in No Country for Old Men (2007).