Asian Americans and TV
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Posted Monday 10/19/20 at 1:47PM EDT
Mulan's Jimmy Wong calls out The Boys and Umbrella Academy for featuring prominent Asian characters in near-silent roles
“Least favorite acting thing I’ve noticed during pandemic binge watching: incredibly sexy and good looking Asian actors playing characters with...
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Posted Thursday 10/15/20 at 2:19PM EDT
Hulu to adapt Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown, a novel about an Asian-American actor struggling against clichéd roles and stereotypes
Yu is expected to write the TV adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel that he released in January.
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Posted Saturday 10/10/20 at 4:24AM EDT
Monsterland's Trieu Tran was stunned that, as an Asian-American, he landed a fleshed-out leading role
“When I was reading the script, I’m like, ‘Man, I finally get to play a fleshed-out character with an arc,”...
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Posted Saturday 10/03/20 at 7:13AM EDT
Warrior fought to be a show revolving around Asian characters
The Asian characters are the most important ones on the Cinemax series inspired by Bruce Lee's writings, and they are...
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Posted Monday 9/14/20 at 3:14PM EDT
Tzi Ma among the stars of Lifetime's first Asian-American holiday movie
A Sugar & Spice Holiday will also star Jacky Lai, Tony Giroux and Lillian Lim in the story of a...
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Posted Wednesday 9/02/20 at 11:28PM EDT
A CBS police drama is in the works revolving around two Chinese-American detectives
The Bay is described as The Good Wife meets NYPD Blue, centering on "two newly partnered Chinese-American detectives who strive...
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Posted Monday 8/03/20 at 2:08PM EDT
Lifetime announces its first Christmas movie revolving around an LGBTQ romance
The Christmas Set-Up arrives one year after Lifetime featured a same-sex kiss for the first time in the Christmas movie...
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Posted Thursday 7/30/20 at 5:59AM EDT
Did Good Morning America's Amy Robach mistake Asian-American comedian Kristina Wong for Ali Wong?
Robach interviewed Kristina Wong on Good Morning America's GMA3: What You Need to Know on Tuesday, discussing the comedian's Auntie...
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Daredevil's Peter Shinkoda: Former Marvel TV boss said "nobody gives a sh*t" about Asian people
Shinkoda, who played the villainous Nobu Yoshioka on the Marvel Netflix series, made the allegation against former Marvel Television head...
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Posted Wednesday 7/08/20 at 2:50AM EDT
Netflix is releasing a documentary short on the impact of The Baby-Sitters Club character Claudia Kishi
The Claudia Kishi Club, premiering Friday, features Asian-American creatives paying tribute to the "iconic, stereotype-busting" character, who's played by Momona...
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Posted Thursday 7/02/20 at 2:50AM EDT
Revisiting Survivor's 2006 "race wars" season
Survivor: Cook Islands premiered to controversy in fall 2006 by dividing 20 castaways into four tribes by race and ethnicity:...
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Alison Brie is "truly sorry" for voicing BoJack Horseman's Vietnamese-American character
"In hindsight, I wish that I didn't voice the character of Diane Nguyen," Brie wrote on Instagram of the Vietnamese-American...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg reiterates his regret over hiring a white actress to play a Vietnamese character
Bob-Waksberg revisited his evolution on the Diane Nguyen character, played by Alison Brie, in a late-night Twitter thread on Tuesday...
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Tina Fey has a problematic history with race that goes beyond 30 Rock's blackface
When Fey apologized and pulled four 30 Rock episodes on Monday over their use of blackface, some pointed out that...
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Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 7:07PM EDT
Amazon picks up Asian-American comedy Nancy Wu Done It co-written by Jessica Henwick
Iron Fist and Game of Thrones alum Henwick is teaming with former The Flash writer Kai Yu Wu on a...
