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New Show Comes at Important Time for Asian Americans April 09, 2021 Olivia Liang plays Nicky Shen in a new series from The CW called "Kung Fu," April 7, 2021. (Kailey Schwerman/The CW via AP) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:06 0:00 New actors just starting off will sometimes claim to have many different skills to be considered for roles in films. The thinking is simple: an actor with more skills should have more offers. But one Chinese American actor set a clear limit early in her career. Olivia Liang made a promise to herself. She would “never learn martia...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Greg Berlanti accepts the 'Patron of the Artists Award' onstage during SAG-AFTRA Foundation's 4th Annual Patron of the Artists Awards at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on November 7, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SAG-AFTRA Foundation/TNS) Review: Strangely drawn to Asian American stereotypes, ‘Kung Fu’ stumbles out of gate Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, (TNS) What’s in a name? The potential to make new deals out of old intellectual property, for one. “Kung Fu,” which premieres Wednesday o...

Kung Fu, is making it’s series premiere TONIGHT (April 7)! The brand new series, from CW super producer Christina M. Kim, is a re-imagining of the 1970s series of the same name, but this time, features a female Asian lead, which is pretty groundbreaking for a primetime network show. It also features an almost all Asian cast. The show is premiering in Riverdale‘s Wednesday night time slot as it goes on a brief hiatus. Here’s a synopsis: A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen ( Olivia Liang), to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an...

Kung Fu, is making it’s series premiere TONIGHT (April 7)! The brand new series, from CW super producer Christina M. Kim, is a re-imagining of the 1970s series of the same name, but this time, features a female Asian lead, which is pretty groundbreaking for a primetime network show. It also features an almost all Asian cast. The show is premiering in Riverdale‘s Wednesday night time slot as it goes on a brief hiatus. Here’s a synopsis: A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen ( Olivia Liang), to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an...