‘Running Point’ Team Teases Season 2 & What’s Next With Isla Gordon’s Love Life – Contenders TV
deadline.comAfter a slam dunk first season, the team behind Running Point — the Warner Bros. Television show loosely based on Los Angeles Lakers owner and president Jeanie Buss’ life and stewardship — is prepping for the next game in the Kate Hudson dramedy vehicle.
During Deadline’s TV Contenders event, executive producer and star Hudson, as well as co-creators and fellow EPs Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz and Dave Stassen (who is also showrunner) joined moderator Antonia Blyth for a conversation about the show’s resonance across age groups and sports affiliation.
The creative team particularly credited Buss and her adviser/partner Linda Rambis, on whom the friendship with co-star Brenda Song is drawn from, for their no holds barred approach to mining their lives. “There’s no limits.
In a comedy like this, there’s a lot of wild stuff, and then they don’t give us parameters. And they’re not scared about what we might do, which, if someone was doing the show loosely based or loosely inspired on me, I’d be pretty protective, which isn’t good for comedy.
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