Showing 136 - 150 of 178 articles tagged "Asian Americans and TV"

• Posted Tuesday 9/11/18 at 9:05PM EDT

  ABC developing Chinese-American comedy pitched as "Lazy Rich Asians" from Rick and Morty's Emmy-winning "Pickle Rick" writer

  Jessica Gao, who won an Emmy over the weekend for writing Rick and Morty's famous "Pickle Rick" episode, is developing...

• Posted Tuesday 8/21/18 at 10:26PM EDT

  You can watch Crazy Rich Asians' stellar cast all over TV

  Of course, Constance Wu, star of the groundbreaking Asian-American film, can be seen on Fresh Off the Boat.

• Posted Monday 8/13/18 at 9:39PM EDT

  Fresh Off the Boat becomes the first Asian-American sitcom to reach syndication

  The ABC comedy will make its UPtv debut with a Labor Day marathon.

• Posted Saturday 8/04/18 at 2:51AM EDT

  Which TV show has less regard for Asian manicurists, Claws or Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?

  Both shows fail to delve into the realities of Asian-immigrant nail salon workers, says Inkoo Kang.

• Posted Friday 7/13/18 at 11:36PM EDT

  Sandra Oh's Killing Eve Emmy nomination is a "bittersweet joy" for actors of Asian descent

  "It isn’t simply the Emmy committee’s fault that it has taken this long—this year is the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards—for...

• Posted Thursday 7/12/18 at 5:29PM EDT

  Sandra Oh reacts to her historic Emmy nomination as the first Asian leading woman for Killing Eve

  "You want to know what? Let’s celebrate it, man," said Oh, the first person of Asian descent to be nominated...

• Posted Thursday 7/12/18 at 5:29PM EDT

  More people of color were nominated for Emmys this year than ever before

  According to TV Guide's tally, 38 people of color were nominated in the top categories, form Lin-Manuel Miranda to Sandra...

• Posted Friday 6/22/18 at 11:17AM EDT

  AMC renews The Terror for a second season set in a World War II Japanese-American internment camp

  Season 2 of the anthology series will revolve around “an uncanny specter that menaces a Japanese-American community from its home...

• Posted Wednesday 5/30/18 at 1:00AM EDT

  American Experience delves into "The Chinese Exclusion Act"

  The new PBS documentary by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu, premiering Tuesday night, is a sobering examination of the act...

• Posted Friday 5/25/18 at 7:45PM EDT

  Racial jokes on network sitcoms too often reinforce stereotypes instead of subverting them

  There is nothing wrong with jokes about race, says Yoonj Kim, who spent a week in March studying every network...

• Posted Wednesday 4/18/18 at 11:16PM EDT

  Roseanne's jab at Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat was "a dog whistle so strong that it might have brought Lassie back from the dead"

  According to Emily Nussbaum, that one controversial joke about "all the shows about black and Asian families" explains Roseanne.

• Posted Saturday 4/14/18 at 12:07AM EDT

  Asian-American Bob's Burgers writer shares the aftermath of criticizing a Roseanne joke

  Kelvin Yu, who also appears on Master of None, went viral with his tweets slamming Roseanne for a joke taking...

• Posted Wednesday 4/11/18 at 5:05AM EDT

  Sandra Oh on experiencing racism: "I’m not going to not say that it’s not there, because it is"

  The Killing Eve star opened up to Vulture about the long search for the perfect project, which she says was...

• Posted Friday 4/06/18 at 10:24PM EDT

  It's simply not true that Roseanne is a rare comedy that tackles politics and the working class

  ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey, in explaining last week why Roseanne in the wake of Trump's victory, said "we had...

• Posted Friday 4/06/18 at 4:27AM EDT

  Bob's Burgers writer: Here's why Roseanne's joke about Fresh Off the Boat and Black-ish was so offensive

  Kelvin Yu addressed the controversy over Tuesday's episode in a nine-tweet thread.