Stassen

Created by Mindy Kaling, with her “Mindy Project” co-star Ike Barinholtz and producer David Stassen, “Running Point,” which premieres Thursday on Netflix, is an adorable workplace family sports comedy set around a fictional Los Angeles basketball team, the Waves.

“We’d be shooting all day and we’d be working so hard, and she’d have big speeches and stunts, and she’d come up to me at like 8 o’clock at night and say, ‘We’re going to the best sushi in L.A. after we wrap, are you in?’” says co-creator David Stassen.

Stassen also says that Hudson was able to bring her specific knowledge of an elite corner of Los Angeles to the production.

“We had a lot of concession vendors walking back and forth,” Stassen remembers.

When his delegate was reported to have received 638 votes in the primary, more than half as many as went to the perennial candidate Harold Stassen, Mr. Kitman demanded a recount.