{"id":2268,"date":"2005-09-22T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T02:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2268"},"modified":"2005-09-22T19:28:36","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T00:28:36","slug":"big_desi_tv_wee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/22\/big_desi_tv_wee\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Desi TV Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This American television season-premiere week&nbsp;for some reason has been filled with an unprecedented number of desis.&nbsp;Not including the various desis&nbsp;already appearing as regulars on television series, the week began with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002237.html\">Indira Varma<\/a> on Rome, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002164.html\">Toral<\/a> on the apprentice, and relative newcomer <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0997689\/\">Maulik Pancholy<\/a> on the new Showtime series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sho.com\/site\/weeds\/home.do\">Weeds<\/a>, which airs Monday&#8217;s at 10 pm.&nbsp;&nbsp; Pancholy, who was previously seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/homevideo\/hitch\/index.html\">Hitch<\/a>, and appeared as various generic brown characters in a handful of sitcoms (including&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0207889\/\">Jack and Jill<\/a> and the hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0115396\/\">Tracey Takes On<\/a>), scored a recurring guest role on Weeds, which stars Mary-Louise Parker and Kevin Nealon. A bit early to say, but could Pancholy be the next Kal Penn?<\/p>\n\n<p><br \/>Incidentally, Pancholy is starring in the off-Broadway play, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.india-awaiting.com\">India-Awaiting<\/a>, which opens for previews on October 15, 2005 at the Samuel Beckett Theater.<\/p>\n\n<p>See Manish&#8217;s previous post on Pancholy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001998.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This American television season-premiere week&nbsp;for some reason has been filled with an unprecedented number of desis.&nbsp;Not including the various desis&nbsp;already appearing as regulars on television series, the week began with Indira Varma on Rome, Toral on the apprentice, and relative &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/22\/big_desi_tv_wee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}