Exclusive: Mindy Project Actor Joins Seth MacFarlane's New Fox Comedy Dads

Michael Ausiello

February 12, 2013 at 7:48 PM

Exclusive: Mindy Project Actor Joins Seth MacFarlane's New Fox Comedy Dads

Mindy Project‘s Tommy Dewey has scored a starring role in Dads, Seth MacFarlane’s new live-action comedy for Fox, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Dads, which has already received a six-episode order, revolves around two successful video game entrepreneurs, Warner and Eli, who find their lives turned upside-down when their nightmare fathers unexpectedly move in with them.

Dewey, who recently wrapped a recurring stint on Mindy Project as a love interest for Mindy Kaling, will play Warner, whose got a life that’s radically different from Eli’s Perpetual Bachelor lifestyle.

MacFarlane serves as an EP on the project alongside his fellow Ted writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild.

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