Champions TV show on NBC, pictured: (l-r) Charlie Grandy, Executive Producer; Yassir Lester, Andy Favreau, J.J. Totah, Mouzam Makker, Anders Holm, Fortune Feimster, Pearlena Igbokwe, President, Universal Television. (Trae Patton / NBCUniversal)

Although they haven’t issued an official release, NBC has set the Champions TV series premiere date. The new comedy from Mindy Kaling and and Charlie Grandy debuts on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 8:30pm ET/PT.

Kaline and Grandy write and executive produce Champions, which stars Anders Holm and Andy Favreau. The cast also includes J.J. Totah, Mouzam Makkar, Fortune Feimster, Yassir Lester, Ginger Gonzaga, and Robert Costanzo. NBC revealed some details about Kaling’s guest starring turn, at the TCA Winter Press tour. The co-creator, who gave birth to a daughter last month, was a wee bit too busy to attend the event.  

Deadline reports:

On her new NBC comedy series, Champions, co-creator Mindy Kaling is continuing to do triple-threat duty as EP, writer and co-star. She’ll play Priya, an old high school girlfriend of Vince (Anders Holm) who reveals to him that he has a teenage son and needs to share custody of him. This sends Vince and his brother Matthew’s (Andy Favreau) single lives into a tailspin.

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Champions executive producer Charlie Grandy, who co-pens the series with Kaling, told reporters at TCA today that her character is in “four or five episodes. She has a big part toward the end of the first season.” While we hear Priya on the phone with Vince, she provides a significant amount of parent talk while her character is in Cleveland.

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Champions executive producer Charlie Grandy, who co-pens the series with Kaling, told reporters at TCA today that her character is in “four or five episodes. She has a big part toward the end of the first season.” While we hear Priya on the phone with Vince, she provides a significant amount of parent talk while her character is in Cleveland.

What do you think? How do you like the sound of the Champions TV show? Do you plan to check it out, when it premieres on NBC?