Maulik!

Maulik! is an upcoming American sitcom created and written by Tracey Wigfield, and starring actor/author Maulik Pancholy of 30 Rock fame that set to premiere on NBC in fall 2021.

Premise
Maulik! follows “a gay single father who trying to raise his 6-year old adopted daughter living in Manhattan's Upper West Side, to balance his duties of running his own restaurant in SoHo, his relationship with his live-in childhood friend, and overbearing cousin who lives next door.”

Main

 * Maulik Pancholy as Maulik Sharma, a openly gay single father and restaurateur, who owns a self-named restaurant and tries to balance his personal and professional life while he lives in apartment building in Manhattan's Upper West Side with his childhood friend Richard and his adopted daughter Nisha to live with him after her birth mother has died.
 * Christopher Jackson as Richard Merriweather, Maulik’s childhood friend and roommate since college who often acts as a voice of reason and cares a lot for Maulik and Nisha. He began working at his own gourmet chocolate business.
 * Elizabeth Alderfer as Wendy Brennaman, Maulik’s young but attractive close friend who worked as a head chef at Maulik’s Restaurant.
 * Telly Leung as Steven Wong, a Chinese-American aspiring actor who employed by Maulik as a server at Maulik’s Restaurant.
 * Swayam Bhatia as Nisha Sharma, Maulik’s six-year-old talented adoptive daughter who is the only child of Maulik’s late friend.
 * Montego Glover as Denise St. James, Maulik’s no-nonsense assistant and right-hand woman at Maulik’s Restaurant.
 * Kunal Nayyar as Ramesh Sharma, Maulik’s famous, but obnoxious cousin with a flashy attitude who live in next-door at his same apartment building.

Recurring

 * Tracey Wigfield as Lena, a assistant chef at Maulik’s Restaurant who shares with Wendy and the other restaurant staff.
 * Alysia Reiner as Ophelia Forrester, Maulik’s good friend and Nisha’s social worker.
 * Jonathan Kite as Charlie, a sarcastic bartender at Maulik’s Restaurant.
 * Sendhil Ramamurthy as Jack Kapoor, Maulik’s handsome boyfriend who begins a romantic relationship with him.
 * Sakina Jaffrey as Gita Sharma, Maulik's soft-spoken, helpful, but critical mother.
 * Tiya Sircar as Sona Sharma, Maulik’s highly devoted and charismatic younger sister.

Title sequence
The show's theme song, "Send Me Somebody (Why Don't Cha)," was written and performed by the late American R&B/Soul singer Gwen Guthrie for her 1988 album Lifeline. The opening title sequence features Maulik is shown dressed as himself in a yellow outfits, singing in front on a background of clouds and a rising sun. The sequence closes with the show's logo in an Stentiga typeface and in an Arial Black typeface in generic caps posted in front of the title.