Let’s get the statistics out of the way right at the top, shall we?

About one in 10 couples who live together in the UK are interracial, a figure up 35% since the last British census in 2001. There are almost one million mixed race children being raised by interracial parents across the country. There’s even an interracial married couple living in cosy domesticity in Kensington Palace as we speak. (That’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, for those of you in the cheap seats.)

The numbers are about the same over the pond in the US and are particularly high among newlyweds: one in every six new marriages were interracial in the States in 2015.

But this reality for so many people – including myself, the product of an interracial marriage – is not represented nearly enough on screen. There aren’t even interracial emojis, although a campaign spearheaded by Tinder in February sought to redress that.

Thanks to Mindy Kaling, interracial relationships are about to get more common on TV