Did Crazy Rich Asians have an impact on TV development season?

Vanity Fair

"A rush of broadcast-network development announcements last summer and fall suggested that the post–Crazy Rich Asians party was in full, jubilant swing," says Joy Press. "There was Exhibit A, a legal series produced by Hawaii Five-0’s Daniel Dae Kim, to be written by Warren Hsu Leonard; Ohana, a family epic written by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen that would be told from the perspective of Pacific Islanders; Kung Fu, a Chinese-American-focused drama by Albert Kim; and a comedy from Rick and Morty writer Jessica Gao, whimsically nicknamed Lazy Rich Asians." But as she noted, none of the dramas made it "through the gauntlet of network development season." Still, Gao's comedy and Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan's The Emperor of Malibu remain in contention for next season's broadcast schedule. Meanwhile, HBO is developing the dark comedy KTown, its first scripted series revolving around Asian-Americans, set in Los Angeles' Koreatown.