Yahoo News Mindy Project is ending with a sixth and final season
The Mindy Project has survived six seasons and being cancelled once before, but the end is now sadly near.
Five years after the Emmy Award-nominated sitcom debuted on Fox - and two years after it jumped to streaming service Hulu - Mindy Kaling will call time after a new string of episodes air this autumn.
Hulu's head of content Craig Erwich made the official announcement on Wednesday, telling Entertainment Weekly: "It has been an honour and a joy to work with Mindy and the entire creative team behind The Mindy Project.
"This series has been part of Hulu since we launched the service and, thanks to Mindy's incredibly unique voice and vision, has remained one of our most popular and beloved series over the past five years.
"While we can't wait to see what Mindy has in store for what will undoubtedly be a fantastic sixth and final season, we know The Mindy Project will live on as fans will continue to watch, discover and re-live all of the best moments from the complete series on Hulu."
Season five rather shockingly left off with Mindy tying the knot with boyfriend Ben, but will she actually end up happy in this final season?
"We're really excited about this last season," Mindy Kaling teases. "I think the timing is exactly right. What's weird is, Mindy is married at the end of the season 5 finale, but she has never been married in the series, so that's incredibly fun for a character who's been obsessed with [marriage] and has come close many times, and seeing her disavow it for a while after her disastrous breakup with who she thought was her soul mate.
"And now she's married! The final season is the final time - it's the best time - to confront what that reality is for her. And really, we've put her through the ringer. It's hard. I'm a romantic at heart. I believe that marriage is like, a sacred relationship, and I really like it, but I'm also single myself, so I see every side of it. It's going to be really fun to explore."
As she approaches the task of wrapping up the sitcom that fans are so passionate about, Mindy assures us that she's thought long and hard about where she'd like to see her character end up.
"I've always had an image in my mind of what would be in the last five minutes of the finale, but I don't know what the explanations are for it," she explained. "I've seen something for her character, but I don't know what it would mean about marriage or not-marriage, if that makes any sense. I haven't figured that part out yet.
"But I want to do something surprising. I want to do something that feels good but also makes you feel like when you leave the character, that she's learned something in these past six years - for someone who doggedly doesn't want to learn. She's actually, unwittingly become kind of better."
The Mindy Project is available on Hulu in the US. E4 previously aired the series in the UK.
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