Asian Americans and TV
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Posted Wednesday 4/04/18 at 5:25PM EDT
Why did Roseanne take an "unnecessary jab" at Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat?
Last night's episode contained what one critic called a "snide dismissal" of Roseanne's fellow ABC comedies, which Dan Conner called...
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Posted Friday 3/30/18 at 9:30PM EDT
Actors of South Asian descent are all the rage this pilot season
New Girl's Hannah Simone starring as The Greatest American Hero on ABC and CBS' Pandas in New York, which revolves...
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Posted Friday 3/16/18 at 10:02PM EDT
TV's new class of "Sexy Asian hunks" are putting Asian male stereotypes to rest
"There is an undeniable new class of handsome Asian male actors dominating TV right now," says Greta Lee, pointing to...
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Posted Thursday 3/15/18 at 5:20AM EDT
Darren Criss is half-Filipino, plays a half-Filipino serial killer but says it would be "unfair" to identify as Asian-American
The Assassination of Gianni Versace star admits in a wide-ranging interview with Vulture that he has the "luxury of being...
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Posted Wednesday 2/28/18 at 12:25AM EST
UCLA's diversity report finds that minorities are still underrepresented on TV
The Los Angeles Times, reporting on the annual study, notes that "overall, people of color remained underrepresented, considering they were...
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Posted Tuesday 2/20/18 at 9:05PM EST
Fixer Upper's Joanna Gaines: I was teased as a child for being Asian
“If you haven’t heard my story, my mom is full Korean and my dad is Caucasian,” she says.
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Posted Tuesday 2/06/18 at 11:36PM EST
Why Fresh Off the Boat aired an episode that was about 50% in Mandarin
Jeff Chiang says of writing tonight’s episode: “Working as a TV writer, I never thought there would be a primetime...
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Posted Tuesday 1/30/18 at 8:39PM EST
BoJack Horseman creator confronts the “whitewashing” of white actors voicing minority characters on his show
Raphael Bob-Waksberg recently discussed with a Twitter follower why the Vietnamese-American character of Diane Nguyen was voiced by white actress...
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Posted Thursday 1/25/18 at 9:04PM EST
Female Indian-American reboot of The Greatest American Hero gets an ABC pilot pickup
The new Greatest American Hero follows a 30-year-old Indian-American woman from Cleveland who takes on the William Katt role.
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Posted Friday 1/19/18 at 10:48PM EST
Why is The Assassination of Gianni Versace interested in killer Andrew Cunanan’s sexuality but not his Asian heritage?
Darren Criss, whose mother is Filipino and father is white, portrays Cunanan, who is the product of a Filipino father...
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Hank Azaria: The Simpsons will “definitely address” criticism over the Apu character
Azaria didn’t say if The Simpsons reached out to comedian Hari Kondabolu to discuss Apu after his The Problem with...
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Posted Thursday 12/14/17 at 9:52AM EST
ABC and CBS earned good grades for Asian-American representation, NBC got a C+
In a new report card from the Asian Pacific American Media Coalition, ABC scored the highest mark, a B, thanks...
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Posted Tuesday 11/21/17 at 9:19PM EST
King of the Hill’s Asian character Kahn Souphanousinphone stood in stark contrast to Apu from The Simpsons
While Apu has been getting grief in the new documentary The Problem with Apu, The Outline points out that Mike...
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Posted Tuesday 11/14/17 at 10:11PM EST
A family drama with an all-Asian cast is in the works at NBC
The potential Los Angeles-set “multicultural soap” is described as a “modern-day Anastasia,” revolving around a family-owned Korean electronics corporation that...
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Posted Wednesday 11/08/17 at 9:32PM EST
Fox developing Model Minorities, an Indian-American comedy
Fresh Off the Boat co-executive producer Sanjay Shah is writing the potential series that is described as a “stereotype-busting comedy...