"Fresh Off the Boat" (six seasons) — February 21, 2020
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" He's also appeared in ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat.
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"Fresh Off the Boat" gives culture shock a comedic twist.
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Representatives for Roseanne and Fresh Off The Boat declined to comment.
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He spoke in a clipped Indian accent—fresh off the boat.
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" This week, Nahnatchka Khan discusses her ABC sitcom, "Fresh Off the Boat.
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Constance Wu, who starred in Fresh Off the Boat, agreed with Dunham.
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But we never really considered not bringing back Fresh Off the Boat.
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Fresh Off The Boat airs Tuesdays at 8 pm Eastern on ABC.
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Or Constance Wu in Fresh Off The Boat (where Wong is a screenwriter).
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Constance Wu, Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
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Despite some progress made on the small screen — thanks, "Fresh Off the Boat"!
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Randall Park, Ian Chen, and Constance Wu on ABC's 'Fresh Off the Boat.'
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His elder son, Hudson Yang, plays Eddie on ABC's Fresh Off the Boat.
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Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu wrote a lengthy tweet decrying the trailer.
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Randall Park, from Fresh Off the Boat, will play Flarsky's boss in the newsroom.
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That's short for "fresh off the boat," a phrase used to joke about immigrants.
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Fresh Off the Boat has been renewed — and Constance Wu isn't happy about it.
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Six Words Fresh Off the Boat, edited by Larry Smith, hits shelves Sept. 5.
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Constance Wu admitted she was upset at having to return to Fresh Off The Boat.
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Today, star Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat) shared the film's first teaser on Instagram.
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Locklear's Fresh Off the Boat episode, "The Gloves Are Off," airs Tuesday at 9 p.m.
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"Fresh Off the Boat" returns for its fifth season and remains its funny, mischievous self.
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Rather, it's a challenge that Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat) rises up to meet.
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The crucial difference between Fresh Off The Boat and other sitcoms is that even when Fresh Off The Boat indulges in typical sitcom tropes, they very often emerge from more unexpected sources, simply because — to be frank — the Huangs are not your typical sitcom family.
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Meanwhile, N. and I head to bed to watch The Goldbergs and Fresh Off the Boat.
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"Fresh Off the Boat" also stars Randall Park, who has not publicly responded to Wu's comments.
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About a couple of years before I got Fresh Off the Boat, I was really broke.
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Constance Wu is explaining her thoughts about the renewal of her show Fresh Off the Boat.
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I moved to New York in January of 1983, fresh off the boat from Salina, Kan.
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For comparison, "Fresh Off The Boat" pulls in 3 million to 4 million viewers per episode.
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The first three seasons of Fresh off the Boat are currently available to stream on ABC.
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In 2015, Blaise earned a recurring role as Nicole on the ABC comedy Fresh Off The Boat.
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Fresh Off the Boat actress Chelsey Crisp and writer-producer Rhett Reese are now husband and wife.
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ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat," based on his memoir of growing up Taiwanese-American in Orlando, Fla.
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The success of Fresh Off the Boat has helped pave the way for inclusion throughout the industry.
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" An earlier version of this article misstated Ali Wong's status with the series "Fresh Off the Boat.
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Constance Wu is opening up about her negative comments following the renewal of Fresh Off the Boat.
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"Fresh Off the Boat" takes on illegal immigration in a story centered on the 1996 presidential election.
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Fresh Off the Boat (2015) is about an immigrant Asian family trying to make it in suburban Florida.
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Nahnatchka Khan, the show runner of "Fresh Off the Boat" on ABC, is taking questions from Times readers.
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"Fresh Off the Boat," adapted from a memoir by the iconoclastic food personality Eddie Huang, premiered last year.
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Shows like Master of None and Fresh Off the Boat treat immigrant families' experiences with humor and poignancy.
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He has had credits on Fresh Off The Boat, Orphan Black, Slasher and Bad Blood among other series.
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Jessica Huang on "Fresh Off The Boat" Jessica (Constance Wu) is the mom we need at the moment.
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Ms. Wu stars in "Fresh Off the Boat," which returned to ABC for its third season this week.
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There hadn't been another until the current ABC series "Fresh Off the Boat," for which Ms. Wong wrote.
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Like the Huangs in "Fresh Off the Boat," Wu's family were virtually the only Asians in their town.
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Wong has previously been a writer and consultant on Fresh Off the Boat, Eddie Huang's autobiographical sitcom on ABC.
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Previously: Damon Lindelof of "The Leftovers," Alex Gansa of "Homeland," Nahnatchka Khan of "Fresh Off the Boat" and more.
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Randall Park – Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) Best Actress in a Comedy Series Kristen Bell – The Good Place (NBC)
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He is joined by history-making director Jordan Peele, Fresh off the Boat actress Constance Wu, and Riz Ahmed.
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Edison perfected the incandescent bulb in 1879, five years before he hired the fresh-off-the-boat Serbian immigrant.
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And Yang mentions an example closer to home: his son, Hudson, one of the stars of Fresh Off the Boat.
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On Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) and Jane the Virgin (The CW), in Superstore (NBC) and The Night Of (HBO).
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Constance Wu – Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Tituss Burgess – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)
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" The Taiwanese-American actress has earned critical praise for her role as Jessica Huang on ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat.
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There are currently only two ongoing North American shows featuring all-Asian casts — Fresh Off the Boat and Kim's Convenience.
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The fictionalized versions of Evan and Emery Huang, portrayed on "Fresh off the Boat" by Ian Chen and Forrest Wheeler.
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" I first encountered Wu four years ago, when I tuned in to the début episode of "Fresh Off the Boat.
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It looks like six seasons of Fresh Off the Boat, Netflix rom-com queen Lana Condor, and yes, Keanu Reeves.
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Wu previously denied that her cryptic tweets were due to the Fresh Off the Boat renewal in a follow-up tweet.
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ABC's sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, about a Taiwanese immigrant couple raising their sons in Orlando, creates a very different effect.
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And the dads we do see, like Randall Park's Louis Huang in Fresh Off The Boat, are not manly or sexy.
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Locklear recently appeared in an episode of Fresh Off the Boat and in the TLC scripted series Too Close to Home.
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Randall Park is clarifying his costar Constance Wu's negative comments about the renewal of their hit series, Fresh Off the Boat.
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"Fresh Off the Boat," the ABC sitcom, fell short of Ms. Kelly's special, but not by much, with 4.2 million viewers.
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Fresh Off the Boat is a terrific family sitcom, but its value to our cultural landscape goes beyond being tremendously funny.
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Still, ABC has several comedies like "black-ish" and "Fresh Off the Boat" that are not afraid to address contemporary issues.
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Following the renewal of ABC's Fresh Off The Boat back in May, lead actress Constance Wu sent out some confusing tweets.
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Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu is the latest to speak out, questioning the awards show in a series of tweets.
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Compare that to Fresh Off The Boat, which portrays the experiences of a Taiwanese-American family without bogging them down with stereotypes.
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I did actually know that Constance had another opportunity, that had Fresh Off the Boat not gone forward, she would have pursued.
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Fresh Off the Boat, Black-ish, Speechless, The Goldbergs, Modern Family, and, yes, Roseanne are acclaimed and popular because they aren't interchangeable.
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She officially signed on earlier this month, after figuring out her schedule since she also appears on ABC's Fresh Off The Boat.
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Comedian Ali Wong and 'Fresh Off the Boat' actor Randall Park will play the romantic leads of Netflix's 'Always Be My Maybe.
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He's since held several supporting comedic roles such as Dr. Allen Hu in "BoJack Horseman" and Gene in "Fresh Off The Boat."
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In November 2019, ABC announced the cancellation of "Fresh Off the Boat," saying the already-filmed sixth season would be its last.
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Even network TV produced refreshing stuff with The Good Place, Blackish, Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Fresh off the Boat, and Superstore.
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Fresh Off the Boat actress Constance Wu spoke to Entertainment Weekly about how important it is to see Asian actors in contemporary roles.
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In a lengthy tweet posted on Friday, the Fresh Off the Boat actress criticized upcoming film The Great Wall, which stars Matt Damon .
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Plot Two young Chinese-Americans spend an evening with an immigrant "fresh off the boat" in a comedy about heritage, assimilation and shame.
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Previously: Alex Gansa of "Homeland," Nahnatchka Khan of "Fresh Off the Boat," Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould of "Better Call Saul" and more.
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But given broadcast TV's record on inclusion, "Fresh Off the Boat" leaves a significant wake, even if the journey wasn't always smooth sailing.
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Minnesota-born Gould was fairly fresh off the boat in Shanghai when he journeyed up the Yangtze to Wuhan for the first time.
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He's a chef and restaurateur, author of the book "Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir " and the host of "Huang's World " on Viceland.
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ODAAT's tone is reminiscent with current sitcoms like Blackish and Fresh off the Boat but pushes out a fresh narrative through its characters.
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But if you've heard Wong's poop jokes or seen an episode of Fresh Off the Boat, you know we're in for a real treat.
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Constance Wu, who seemed rather unenthused at Fresh Off the Boat getting another season, has inspired other celebrities to react in the same way.
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Like many people, the star of Crazy Rich Asians and Fresh Off The Boat has faced harassment from random, faceless people on the internet.
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The budding country singer is no earnest teenager fresh off the boat to Nashville, and that's part of the reason why she's so interesting.
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WHAT'S WORKING ABC's lineup of comedies with diverse casts like "black-ish" and "Fresh Off the Boat" continues to give the network an identity.
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" On the bridge-burning article he wrote for New York Magazine about how ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" sanitized his childhood: "That's Kendrick, 'Control.
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The dark edge of "Fresh Off the Boat" is mostly gone in the new book, replaced with an acceptance of calm in his life.
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"Fresh Off the Boat" is the first Asian-family show in history, not counting "All-American Girl," in 1994, which ended after one season.
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In 2015, there were more minority leads on television, and Asian Americans starred in popular shows like Fresh Off the Boat and Dr. Ken.
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Constance Wu has been killing it on Fresh Off the Boat for five seasons, but after Crazy Rich Asians, now she's a movie star.
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" Wu is now back on the Fresh Off the Boat set and assured the cast and crew "could not be more lovely and supportive.
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It's a big question for a family sitcom to tackle — and one Fresh off the Boat doesn't brush off by trying to answer definitively.
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Mandarin Chinese speakers feature heavily in both Netflix's horror prequel The Cloverfield Paradox and a new episode of the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat.
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Inspired by chef Eddie Huang's memoir of the same name, "Fresh Off the Boat" explored his upbringing as a Taiwanese-American raised by immigrant parents.
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Nahnatchka Khan, the creator of Fresh Off the Boat, has just signed a first-look deal with the streaming giant for her future feature films.
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Then he landed the lead in "Fresh Off the Boat" and recommended Wong for a job, even though she had no experience writing for sitcoms.
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The episode of the week for May 14 through 20 is "This is Not Us," the season three finale of ABC's Fresh Off The Boat.
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Actress Constance Wu was less than happy that her sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat" was renewed, but ABC says it's not kicking her off the show.
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Fans are confused over tweets from Constance Wu that come on the same day ABC renewed her series Fresh Off the Boat for a season 6.
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Most recently, he played Gavin Landers on the latest season of American Vandal and has had roles in Grey's Anatomy, Fresh Off The Boat, and Shameless.
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And even with the introduction of series such as ABC's Fresh Off The Boat in recent years, Asian Americans still remain marginalized and tokenized on-screen.
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In its first season in particular, Fresh Off the Boat drew similar praise for its willingness to showcase an Asian experience not often seen on-screen.
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Much like modern network TV shows like Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat have combined hilarious, realistic stories with educational moments, so too does Brujos.
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We already knew Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu would be starring in the movie, but we didn't know who the male lead would be.
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Finally, showrunner of Fresh Off the Boat Nahnatchka Khan called out studios in Hollywood for not creating programming for a diverse audience that doesn't feel represented.
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Apparently, they're unaware of the blockbuster-sized audience flocking to Empire, the groundbreaking storytelling of Being Mary Jane, or the ratings generator Fresh off the Boat.
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The stand-up comic Ali Wong and the "Fresh Off the Boat" lead Randall Park cooked up this romantic comedy, which the pair also star in.
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But 2015 was her breakout year, thanks to her role in ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat," the first Asian-American-led network sitcom in twenty years.
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"When I first got 'Fresh Off the Boat,' I noticed that all the parts I was being offered afterward were what I call 'suits,' " she said.
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Would the race have been hurt by including ABC's Fresh Off the Boat or CBS's Mom or NBC's The Carmichael Show or Fox's Brooklyn Nine-Nine?
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Eddie Huang was never one to shy away from his distain for Fresh Off the Boat—a televised adaptation of his memoir by the same name.
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For as good as she is on TV's Fresh Off the Boat, Crazy Rich Asians' lead Constance Wu has always been a movie star waiting to happen.
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" Wu wrote that working on Fresh Off the Boat is "pleasant" several times, before saying, "But in general, I've always sought artistic challenge over comfort and ease.
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This means Fox owns the streaming rights to shows it produces for other networks like This Is Us on NBC and Fresh Off the Boat on ABC.
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Taking Flight will be adapted by Fresh Off the Boat writer Camilla Blackett from DePrince and Elaine DePrince's memoir Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina.
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Interestingly, "Last Man Standing" will now be in the same time slot as "Fresh off the Boat" on Friday nights, so they'll be competing against each other.
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Random observation: If it weren't for "Fresh Off the Boat," would this have been the first time a character called a loved one "yobo" on American television?
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Previously: Nahnatchka Khan of "Fresh Off the Boat," Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould of "Better Call Saul," Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields of "The Americans" and more.
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Previously we heard from Alex Gansa of "Homeland"; Nahnatchka Khan of "Fresh Off the Boat"; and Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould on "Better Call Saul," among others.
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And the television show "Fresh Off the Boat," and the memoir off which it is based, have sought to explore and dispel the misconceptions the title breeds.
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Gomez's career has included appearances on "The Drew Carey Show," as well as "Fresh Off the Boat" ... and he spent 6 years on the show "Cougar Town."
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Sure, it's a pat conclusion to a much larger issue, but Fresh Off The Boat is still a family sitcom, and so that's the order of things.
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At the end of the day, Fresh Off The Boat is still one of the few shows — sitcom or otherwise — that could address this issue at all.
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It's tough for anyone on the '90s-set family comedy Fresh Off the Boat to steal the spotlight from Constance Wu's perfectly spiky performance as Jessica Huang.
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She blazed a trail for other comedians to follow: There wouldn't be an Ali Wong without Margaret Cho; and there certainly wouldn't be a Fresh off the Boat.
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The 29–303 season gave audiences Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat on ABC, Empire on Fox, and Jane the Virgin on the CW. Progress inched along.
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While broadcast networks were garnering attention for shows like "Black-ish" and "Fresh Off the Boat," there were complaints about the lack of similar quality programming on cable.
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The only other nearly all-Asian show on network TV right now is ABC's Fresh Off the Boat, a sitcom about a Taiwanese immigrant family living in Florida.
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Actress Constance Wu made headlines this week after she responded rather unhappily to news that her ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat had been renewed for another season.
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It's no surprise, then, that Netflix has brought the two together in the much-anticipated Always Be My Maybe, directed by Nahnatchka Khan of Fresh Off the Boat.
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The Fresh Off the Boat star revealed she spent the holidays in a weird place in Vulture's oral history of the stripper scam movie, hitting theaters Sept. 13.
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That's why shows like Black-ish (ABC), Fresh Off the Boat (ABC), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox), Superstore (NBC), and so many others remain not just watchable but essential.
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The series finale of "Fresh Off the Boat" finds Eddie (Hudson Yang) ready to head off to college — or not, because he would rather go to culinary school.
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Update, May 11: Constance Wu further clarified tweets that set the internet ablaze with gossip that she was unhappy with ABC's renewal of her sitcom, Fresh Off the Boat.
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The movie will be helmed by Josh Greenbaum, who's directed a few episodes of New Girl and Fresh Off the Boat, and is set to hit theaters next year.
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"We use WhatsApp mostly," Wu, who also plays mom Jessica Huang in the ABC series Fresh Off the Boat, said while on the red carpet for the 2019 Oscars.
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The movie will be helmed by Josh Greenbaum, who's directed a few episodes of New Girl and Fresh Off the Boat, and is set to hit theaters next year.
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It's something she's talked a lot about with Crazy Rich Asians co-star Constance Wu, who became a household name after being cast in ABC's Fresh Off The Boat.
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"If anything, I want 'Fresh Off the Boat' to be remembered as the series that showed people that the experience they hadn't seen before was (still) relatable," Khan said.
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The hip-hop-loving host Eddie Huang, author of the memoir that inspired the ABC sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat," channels Anthony Bourdain in this food-focused travel series.
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Constance Wu has nothing but love for Fresh Off the Boat — but the star recently admitted that she was apprehensive about returning to the set to shoot season 6.
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The episode of the week for April 24 through April 30 is "Hi, My Name Is…," the 20th episode of the second season of ABC's Fresh Off the Boat.
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"We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world," Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu wrote in a widely circulated tweet.
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I was fresh off the boat from Romania, and one of my clients was the agent to all of the '90s supermodels: Gail Elliott, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford.
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I remember this one time in my playground, there I was, a Portuguese immigrant fresh off the boat, and all the girls were in a line braiding each other's hair.
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My last note on the movie: Randall Park (famous for playing the wonderfully dorky dad in Fresh off the Boat) has a truly wonderful turn as a hapless FBI agent.
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The brashness of "Fresh Off the Boat" was an offense mechanism evolved by its author to overcome the barriers put up by Americans, especially white Americans, to recognizing his existence.
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There's little to laugh about through all of this, despite the fact we're technically watching an ABC family comedy along the lines of Modern Family and Fresh Off The Boat.
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We're already seeing an effect with projects like the first star vehicle for the terrific Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu, an adaptation of the book Crazy Rich Asians.
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On "Fresh Off the Boat," at 9, Jessica's competitive personality becomes a problem, while Pat tries to be less of a nice guy on "The Real O'Neals," at 9:30.
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It prompted an Op-Ed in The New York Times by Eddie Huang, the chef, television host and author of "Fresh Off the Boat," which inspired a sitcom on ABC.
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Nahnatchka Khan (the head writer of Park's long-running sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat") directs a movie rooted in the Asian-American experience, but based on a situation that's universal.
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As ABC's sitcom Fresh Off The Boat explored in "Hi, My Name Is…," names can become the linchpin of an ever-pressing, complicated question: What does it mean to assimilate?
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And there are several others who could have been nominated but weren't, like Constance Wu and Randall Park of Fresh Off the Boat, or Gina Rodriguez of Jane the Virgin.
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Now, as Hollywood contends with its embarrassingly monochromatic slate of Oscar acting nominees, "Fresh Off the Boat" is part of a growing list of sitcoms with ethnic minorities in leading roles.
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It stars Scheer (The League, Fresh Off the Boat) and Carla Gallo (Bones, Burning Love) as married couple Bennett and Julie, who relocate from the Midwest after the former is fired.
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Aside from her work on Fresh Off The Boat and starring in American Housewife, Wong also became a household name last year, thanks to her hilarious Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra.
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"I was fresh off the boat from drama school, and they were auditioning every young Brit in the U.K. [for Game of Thrones]," Harington tells Absolute Radio in an April interview.
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"When brothers in Harlem like Kung-Fu, it's never like 'You think you're Chinese,'" Eddie Huang, chef and author of Fresh off the Boat, said in a 2015 interview with Time.
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A boom era of television has led to both the production of culturally insightful shows like "Fresh Off The Boat" and the awarding of roles to a diverse pool of actors.
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"I was shocked that Chinese Restaurant Syndrome was an actual term in a dictionary," Mr. Huang, whose autobiography was adapted for a sitcom, "Fresh Off the Boat," wrote in an email.
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F.O.B. stands for "fresh off the boat," which was once a slur applied to unassimilated immigrants, and is now sometimes appropriated by people of Asian descent as a term of pride.
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But "Fresh Off the Boat," tracking the Huangs' often bumpy adventures in assimilation, has since settled in as a Tuesday-night fixture for ABC, with critics praising Constance Wu's matriarch, in particular.
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Now in its second season, Fresh Off the Boat is currently on one of the biggest rolls a comedy has been on in recent years, without a dud episode in the bunch.
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Crisp is best known as fan-favorite character Honey on ABC'S Fresh Off the Boat and Reese wrote the Ryan Reynolds superhero movie Deadpool, which is set to be released Feb. 12.
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"Don't forget — you also gotta get down with the down ballot," the Fresh Off the Boat actress instructs as she grooves her way through the final election video from Humanity For Hillary.
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"Fresh Off the Boat," whose showrunner is the Persian-American Nahnatchka Khan, is a dizzy retro experiment adapted from Eddie Huang's memoir about a hip-hop-obsessed child of Taiwanese immigrant strivers.
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Paoletto: You've also recently starred in "Crazy Rich Asians" and you've been in "Fresh Off the Boat," which have both done a lot to redefine previous stereotypes of Asian characters in Hollywood.
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In some profound or perverse way, I see a subtle kinship between the watershed premiere of "Fresh Off the Boat" in February 2015 and the recent revival of "Roseanne" in March 2018.
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At a time when Asian-Americans are finally getting some authentic on-screen representation — more "Fresh Off the Boat" than Mickey Rooney — a truthful depiction of internment on this scale seems overdue.
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In "American Housewife," at 8:30, Anna-Kat steals from a classmate's house during a play date, and at 9, in "Fresh Off the Boat," Jessica reveals shocking details about her past.
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At a time when Asian-Americans are finally getting some authentic on-screen representation — more "Fresh Off the Boat" than Mickey Rooney — a truthful depiction of internment on this scale seems overdue.
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After Margaret Cho's All-American Girl was canceled in 1995, it took a full 20 years for television execs to give another Asian TV series a shot with Fresh Off the Boat.
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ABC seemed like it was in a good place as recently as 2014-'15, largely thanks to embracing shows with diverse leads like Scandal and Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat.
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Helmed by Fresh Off The Boat director Nahnatchka Khan in her film directorial debut, Always Be My Maybe is groundbreaking in its depiction of Asian-American culture, and its subversion of longstanding tropes.
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"Fresh off the Boat" star, Constance Wu, who stars in the upcoming film, wrote a letter on Twitter addressing the "historic" nature of her role in both the TV show and this movie.
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It has a lot in common with "The Goldbergs" or "Fresh Off the Boat," right down to the not-always-necessary narration, the clear sibling roles, the contrived but deeply revered suburban rituals.
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But as we talk about what it means for media to become more "diverse," Fresh Off The Boat offers an example of how that diversity can improve TV on a purely practical level.
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Do you feel less like an outsider since you've been able to share "Fresh Off the Boat" on such a large platform and to see how many people can relate, no matter their backgrounds?
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The 36-year-old Irish actor, known for his role as Tom Branson on the award-winning PBS drama series, is engaged to actress Jessica Blair Herman (American Crime Story, Fresh Off the Boat).
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Constance Wu, star of the upcoming Crazy Rich Asians film and Fresh Off the Boat, advises them to "make a new way in," as she opens a new door, presumably to an exclusive event.
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Shows as wildly divergent as Black-ish and Power and Fresh Off the Boat and Transparent (and I could go on) all debuted in the immediate wake of Orange Is the New Black excitement.
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When Constance Wu landed the part of Jessica Huang, the Chinese-American matriarch on the ABC sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat," she didn't realize just how significant the role would turn out to be.
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Several Asian American actresses—like Ming-Na Wen from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Constance Wu from Fresh off the Boat—recently spoke out against the cultural insensitivity surrounding the Ghost in the Shell casting.
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And yes, the fish is quite literally fresh off the boat (er, 12-hour flight); a 150-kilogram tuna is flown in roughly three times a week in the cargo hold of United planes.
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The Huangs may be knocked back to their status quo for season four, but hopefully, Fresh off the Boat will keep digging into the nuances of these issues like it did in season three.
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Network shows like The Good Place increased the amount of Asian leads on television, and the pioneering sitcom Fresh Off the Boat became the first network show with an Asian American cast to reach syndication.
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Adults struggle with accents: eight decades after immigrating to America and four after serving as secretary of state, Henry Kissinger still sounds fresh off the boat from Fürth—in what is nevertheless elaborately accurate English.
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In October, the fourth season of ABC's Fresh Off the Boat threw its protagonist Eddie (Hudson Yang) for a serious loop by having his longtime crush Nicole (Luna Blaise) confide in him that she's gay.
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A line in the second episode of the Roseanne reboot hit a nerve for implying that white audiences don't need to watch shows like Blackish and Fresh Off the Boat about black and Asian families.
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When Matt Damon appeared in The Great Wall's trailer, Fresh off The Boat actress Constance Wu slammed the Hollywood-Chinese co-production for perpetuating the myth that only a white man can save the world.
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"Fresh Off the Boat" actress Wu plays New York economics professor Rachel Chu, who flies to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family only to discover that it is one of the wealthiest in the country.
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Directed by Nahnatchka Khan, the showrunner of the sharp ABC comedy "Fresh Off the Boat" (which Park stars in and Wong used to write for), "Always Be My Maybe" never shakes off those sitcom shackles.
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In May, the 37-year-old actress tweeted that she was "so upset" and "literally crying" after news that her hit ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat had been renewed for a sixth season.
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The story primarily follows Burge investigator Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom of The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean franchises) and fresh-off-the-boat faerie Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne of Suicide Squad).
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If the prototypical American was white and middle class, and my parents' Chinese accents and indigence marked them as irredeemably fresh off the boat, what chance was there for someone like me to achieve Americanness?
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But it turns out he had seen her Netflix standup special "Baby Cobra" and asked to meet her and director Nahnatchka Khan, creator of the ABC sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat," to talk about the project.
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ABC's Fresh Off the Boat, about an Asian American family in the 1990s, is part of a classic TV tradition of domestic sitcoms, but tells a story that same genre canceled or ignored in the '90s.
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Though Fresh Off the Boat served as her big break, Wu burst onto the scene as a movie star this summer when she played lead character Rachel Chu in the hit romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians.
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Fresh Off the Boat actress Constance Wu summarized the problem in a single tweet: To parade little kids on stage w/no speaking lines merely to be the butt of a racist joke is reductive & gross.
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The idea for Always Be My Maybe came from Wong's suggestion that she and her longtime friend and Fresh Off the Boat collaborator Park, 45, wanted to make their own version of When Harry Met Sally.
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Fresh Off the Boat breakout Constance Wu plays Rachel, an ordinary American gal whisked into a live of unimaginable glamour and privilege when she discovers her boyfriend hails from one of the wealthiest families in Asia.
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A few years ago, after Eddie Huang submitted the manuscript of his memoir "Fresh Off the Boat," which made ample use of footnotes, his editor, Chris Jackson, asked him if he'd read fellow footnoter Junot Díaz.
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Park, 45, has been killing it on "Fresh Off the Boat" for years, but opposite Ali Wong in "Always Be My Maybe," he got to be the romantic lead, not solely the comic relief or dad.
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List of Five The writer, restaurateur and former lawyer Eddie Huang is probably best known for his 2013 memoir, "Fresh Off the Boat," not to mention his trashing of the ABC sitcom based on the book.
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Nobody's worried about the safety of the characters on Fresh Off the Boat — where nearly all of the roles are played by people of Asian descent — because it's not the kind of show where characters routinely die.
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Minority-led shows like Master of None, How to Get Away With Murder, Empire, Fresh Off the Boat, and Black-ish — which all feature nonwhite actors and characters in prominent roles — largely didn't exist five years ago.
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Also starring Emma Thompson (another Hollywood fixture who can do no wrong), the film was directed by Nisha Ganatra (Dear White People, Fresh Off the Boat) — and it has just set a record for a picture deal.
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Since 2013's excellent Old, he's contributed to the Fresh Off the Boat theme song and worked on a Dr. Suess-inspired children's book about the importance of self-esteem for black girls dedicated to his daughter.
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He was not even his great-uncle Thomas, "The McManus", who had founded the club in 1892, wrested control of Tammany Hall in 1905, and would greet Irish immigrants fresh off the boat with voter-registration forms.
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He spent some time dabbling in other comedy series, like "Fresh Off the Boat" as Eddie Huang's Chinese-Jewish frenemy Phillip Goldstein, and on the USA Network's "Benched," created by Tsai's "Trophy Wife" co-star Michaela Watkins.
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Born in Taiwan, raised in Houston and educated in the Bay Area, this former writer for ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" weaves captivating portraits of his life without resorting to clichés about the Asian-American immigrant experience.
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Fresh off the boat from her second runway show in London, Charlotte Dellal titled her whimsical Charlotte Olympia collection "Let's Go Bananas!" and took as her muse Carmen Miranda, the '40s singer in the tutti-frutti turban.
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You won't find the sleek, Technicolor glory of Modern Family or Black-ish here; you won't even find the light clutter of Fresh Off the Boat or The Middle, only there to hide otherwise spotless living rooms.
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The romantic comedy Always Be My Maybe and the ABC show Fresh Off the Boat also wholeheartedly cast their lot with America, handling the Asian American experience of racism by swiftly trouncing it in one-off demonstrations.
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In the early going, "Fresh Off the Boat" felt distinctive, capturing the immigrant experience through the parents and their three boys -- the others played by Forrest Wheeler and Ian Chen -- as they adjusted to their new community.
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Jokes aside, Wong's commitment to her work is underscored, as she tells stories about breaking into the San Francisco comedy scene, landing TV acting roles and joining "Fresh Off the Boat" as a staff writer in 2015.
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Ali Wong and Randall Park co-wrote and co-star in Always Be My Maybe, a rom-com directed by Nahnatchka Khan (who produced ABC's Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 21970 and Fresh Off the Boat).
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Wu got her first big break in Hollywood in 2015 when she began playing the protective mom, Jessica Huang, in Fresh Off the Boat — the first network sitcom about an Asian-American family to air in 20 years.
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In Dover, Juan says, there is a guy that drives around with a Confederate flag on the back of his pickup truck, but Juan's monthly studio rent is $300, and he can buy lobster fresh off the boat.
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Shows like Jane the Virgin, Fresh Off the Boat, Transparent, Empire, Black-ish, and the new series Superstore put people of color and LGBT in the foreground, and tell rich, enthralling stories that keep fans coming back every week.
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This fall, "Fresh off the Boat" is taking over the timeslot of "Last Man Standing," moving from Tuesday nights where it only managed to garner 4.2 million viewers last season and ranked 10th out of the network's 11 sitcoms.
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While she got along with the other girls, many of them were only 15 or 2011 years old—"too young to take care of a home," Fabiana says— fresh off the boat from Eastern Europe, and barely spoke English.
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Fresh Off the Boat started out as an adaptation of chef Eddie Huang's memoir of the same name, but the ABC comedy has since settled into its own groove that revolves around the Huang family's life in 1990s Orlando.
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In fact, I wonder if ABC would have had more luck moving Grey's to 9 pm while Scandal paused to accommodate Washington's pregnancy, while putting, say, Fresh Off the Boat and The Real O'Neals in the 8 pm hour.
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Fresh Off The Boat star Randall Park is excited that ABC has announced the renewal of the show's sixth season despite the fact his costar and on-screen wife, Constance Wu, may have expressed her frustration with the show's comeback.
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At a stand manned by the Maritime School's fishermen in training, a kilo of scallops, fresh off the boat, was barely 3.5 euros—a godsend for seafood enthusiasts, who were wasting no time filling up their mesh shopping bags with provisions.
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In the same vein, shows like Fresh off the Boat and Insecure are making the lives of minorities more mundane and mainstream, brushing off anachronisms like Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles and adding fresh, strong female relationships between black women.
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In a PEOPLE exclusive sneak peek at Tuesday night's episode of Fresh Off the Boat, Locklear, 55, guest stars as Marvin's (Ray Wise) ex-wife, Sarah, and shows off her impressive, yet mischievous, haggling skills while at a yard sale.
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This bold crew is a who's who of powerhouse females: Oscar winner Larson; author and activist Mock; Kaling (A Wrinkle in Time); Nash (Claws); Dawson (Daredevil); Watson (This Is Us); Wu (Fresh Off the Boat); and Jones (Parks and Recreation).
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As debates about immigration remain at the center of our political landscape, the creators of ABC's Fresh Off the Boat have teamed up with Six-Word Memoirs for a collection of short paeans to immigrant parents and America's open doors.
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At the heart of "Fresh Off the Boat" lay a secret awareness that the ultraviolent tendencies (and keen business sense) instilled in the narrator by his parents had, in fact, prepared him perfectly to integrate into the savagery of American life.
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But they're also cast exactly on type, from mean-boss Aniston (last seen in Horrible Bosses) to straight man Bateman to lovably overconfident partying boss Miller to Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat) as that ubiquitous office standard, Fred-from-Accounting.
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It might not explicitly follow the Eddie Huang memoir on which it's based, but Fresh Off the Boat has so many gifts to offer, not least of which is that it was a mainstream network comedy about a Chinese family.
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You don't have to be a first- or second-generation immigrant to appreciate Fresh Off The Boat — though yes, you will likely get more out of it if you know the pain of bringing some "foreign" lunch to the cafeteria.
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When Fresh Off the Boat wrapped up its third season on May 16, I was so sad to let the Huang family go for a summer that it took me a second to realize how quietly ambitious the season had been.
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Similarly, Huang is a Chinese-American chef—and writer of the book that "Fresh Off the Boat" was based on—who has been extensively criticized for speaking in fake AAVE, admitting to performing Black American culture and harassing Black women.
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Onscreen, Fresh Off the Boat and Superstore were sitcoms that found both humor and importance in the conversation surrounding immigration—Superstore, in particular, featured TV's first undocumented Filipino immigrant character—with jokes that added to storylines and avoided offensive territory.
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Not only is Fresh off the Boat a warm show, it's also a deeply weird one that's unafraid to have fun and let the Huangs indulge their quirkier habits (see: Jessica's crime novel, and her son Evan's vice hold on the neighborhood council).
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It's a joy to watch Ansari's character hang out with an Asian man and a queer woman of color on Master of None, to see children with immigrant parents on Fresh Off the Boat and a black-ish family back on primetime.
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Making matters more complicated at ABC, the most recent episode of "Roseanne," which more than 15 million people watched on Tuesday, included a glib exchange about "black-ish" and another ABC sitcom, "Fresh Off the Boat," which is about an Asian-American family.
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The Meg, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, and Searching are all out this month; Bao and Kim's Convenience hit last month; Killing Eve is up for Emmys next month, and Fresh Off the Boat is back the month after that.
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Instead, Fresh Off the Boat — created by Nahnatchka Khan, who is openly gay — returned to Nicole throughout the rest of the season as she came out to those she loves, allowing for moments both touching and uncomfortably tone-deaf along the way.
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Shows like Blackish, Fresh Off the Boat and Aziz Ansari's Master of None directly hit at the issues of being non-white in America, while diversity is just one element of why Scandal, The Walking Dead and Empire are so successful. 4.
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Wu, on the other hand, balances the wide-eyed sweetness required for the role with the same sharp wit that she skillfully deploys in ABC's Fresh Off The Boat, giving Rachel more of an edge than one usually expects from an ingenue.
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The movie stars established actresses like Michelle Yeoh, from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," and Constance Wu from U.S. television comedy "Fresh Off the Boat" along with newer faces like New York rapper and actress Awkwafina and Henry Golding, who was raised in Britain.
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And then consider that ABC is the network of Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat and Shonda Rhimes's assorted dramas, and the only network in broadcast TV history to be headed up by a black person (in this case, Channing Dungey).
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For Wu, the star of ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat," her lead role in the commercially successful "Crazy Rich Asians" proved to be something of a catapult, elevating her star power and landing her and the cast on the cover of magazines.
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"Fresh off the Boat," the first American primetime sitcom in 20 years to star Asian-Americans, is a fictionalized version of the Huang family's ups-and-downs as Louis and Jessica build a restaurant business in Florida, where the brothers grew up.
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It's really pretty simple: Fresh Off The Boat is telling more interesting stories than most sitcoms because telling the story of an immigrant family from the family's perspective yields stories most other sitcoms just don't — and could never — have in their arsenal.
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In Roseanne's third episode, the Conners slept through "all the [ABC] shows about black and Asian families" —presumably Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat, another entry on this list — which is a shame because Roseanne is lucky to share a night with it.
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As part of that push, there's been a yearning for Asian-American representation, and for more shows like ABC's Fresh Off the Boat (which focuses on an Asian-American family) and The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (where the show's romantic interest, Josh, is Filipino).
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Gemma Chan had a social media slip up, inadvertently "liking" a message on social media that criticized Constance Wu, who made headlines this week after she responded rather unhappily to news that her ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat had been renewed for another season.
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Turn on ABC, and you'll see everything from Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat to Shonda Rhimes' famously comprehensive shows, and Netflix shows like One Day at a Time and Orange Is the New Black prove that multicultural programming can perform with any audience.
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The Fresh Off the Boat actress instantly reached romantic comedy icon status with her portrayal of feisty game theory professor Rachel Chu, and, given that the Crazy Rich Asians book by Kevin Kwan boasts two equally delicious sequels — we'll need two more movies, stat.
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Ken" — all while maintaining straight As, managing a social life (he's close friends with "Fresh Off the Boat" star Hudson Yang), and keeping up with his favorite show "Shark Tank," which he actually pitched an idea to in a recent episode of "Dr. Ken.
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As with any great rap album, the composition of the audience for "Fresh Off the Boat" was uncertain, questionable, open: Huang had created a narrative in which readers — Asian, black, Hispanic, Muslim, even white — could find a recognizable image of their anxieties and ambitions.
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"I didn't watch my talk show appearances or Fresh Off the Boat or Hustlers just 'cause I thought, you know, 'I want to focus on the present' and not be self-critical and think too much, dwell too much on the past," she explained.
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She was sitting on the living-room floor, playing with her daughter, Mari, who was nine months old: intent, curious, peaceful, dressed in a white onesie that Randall Park, the star of "Fresh Off the Boat," had hand-lettered with the Louis Vuitton monogram.
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Though Fresh off the Boat originally started as the origin story of chef Eddie Huang (Hudson Yang), it was hard to ignore that Constance Wu, playing his mother Jessica, was a force of nature who stole every scene from the second the show premiered.
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The ABC executive told the magazine that "the political diversity captured in the new 'Roseanne' mirrors an overall emphasis on inclusion at ABC that's reflected in family comedies 'Black-ish,'' Speechless' and 'Fresh Off the Boat,' and dramas such as 'The Good Doctor,'" according to Deadline .
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In The Cloverfield Paradox, a Chinese woman who chooses to speak Mandarin instead of English seems uncommunicative compared to the rest of the characters, while in Fresh Off the Boat, the portrayal of a Chinese woman who only speaks in Mandarin comes across as progressive and relatable.
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Television, despite shows like Fresh Off The Boat and The Mindy Project, which feature Asian-American characters and actors, hasn't fared much better, and even when Asian actors do get roles in TV, they still face unequal treatment like being paid less than their white co-stars.
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Ali Wong, who also got her start as a comedian and writer, put race and identity at the center of Fresh Off the Boat, a show for which she has written since 2014, as well as in her Netflix comedy specials, Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife.
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"Always Be My Maybe," the movie in question, stars the stand-up comic Ali Wong and the "Fresh Off the Boat" lead Randall Park, old friends in real life who also wrote the film together and then brought in his sitcom's creator, Nahnatchka Khan, to direct.
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Black-ish and its fellow ABC series Fresh Off the Boat have been lauded for representing lives and families that we don't see enough of on television but can all still share some experiences with, because we're all human, no matter the color of our skin.
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But there was a time, only a few years ago before Wu landed her first big role in 2015 as Jessica Huang on the ABC comedy "Fresh Off the Boat," that she seriously considered giving up acting because she was struggling "really hard," she told Vulture in 2016.
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Along with the premiere of Fresh Off the Boat (based on VICE host Eddie Huang's memoir), Black-ish ushered in a somewhat new idea that a central non-white family could be marketable enough to justify a prime time slot on one of the nation's largest television networks.
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Not only are the flashbacks to slapstick disasters and burgeoning affection lovely and funny in the way Fresh off the Boat does best, but they also give Jessica's final step a personal touch that shows how meaningful this moment is for her beyond the necessary fact of it.
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But he's perhaps best known for correctly betting big that viewers would want to see less homogeneous, more racially diverse shows — as evidenced by the enormous success of Shonda Rhimes's multiple "colorblind" series and the growing acclaim for family comedies like Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat.
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Over the last few years we've seen the realness in familial comedies about people of color like Black-ish, Fresh off the Boat, and Jane the Virgin, but seeing women of color as heroines is inspiring in a different way—especially to those who feel like their representation is severely lacking.
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"They make this assumption that every single one of my boyfriends has been white based on the one boyfriend they've seen on my social media, who is the boyfriend that I was dating when I first started my account, all the way up until after Fresh Off the Boat," Wu said.
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But Fresh Off the Boat also connects the story to Jessica and Connie's lifelong battle for the attention and affection of their immigrant mother, who — just like Nick's mother in Crazy Rich Asians — judges them harshly if they seem to be slipping into "the American way," and taking life too easy.
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So after the next protest and the next, and another postcard or phone call or incensed tweet to my reps, I won't feel like a lazy citizen for binge-watching Fresh off the Boat or ponying up for a reclining seat at the latest release from a rising auteur of color.
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Filthy Preppy Teen$ Max Carver as Chaad Bishop and Hannah Kasulka as Meegan Bishop in 'Filthy Preppy Teen$' A teen drama/comedy created by Curtis Gwinn (The Walking Dead), Paul Scheer (Fresh off the Boat), Jonathan Stern (Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp) and Keith Quinn (Jackass 3.5).
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But when Taiwanese fishermen accidentally caught a giant squid while trawling for mullet in 2016, scientists for the first time were able to examine a giant squid optic lobe that was fresh off the boat and relatively intact, said Chuan-Chin Chiao, a professor of neuroscience at National Tsing Hua University.
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She is juggling a job as a writer on ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" (the first prime-time series about an Asian-American family on network television since Margaret Cho's "All-American Girl," which aired for one season in the nineties) with acting in a new sitcom, also for ABC.
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But it gradually becomes clear that McBurney (an Irishman fresh off the boat from Dublin who took a man's place in the army for $300) fancies himself a charmer, and that he's found himself in a rather ideal situation: surrounded by beautiful women and charming girls of all ages and personalities.
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First Gen would be the first show of its kind to represent the multitude of first-generation Americans with parents from African countries, an audience that has been able to half-relate to black shows like Black-ish and immigrant shows like Fresh Off the Boat, but never both in one package.
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Despite the fact that it's housed on the same network that airs beacons of TV diversity in the form of Scandal, black-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, and How to Get Away with Murder, the Bachelor franchise seems to be hanging on to the reductive practice of centering white people in its narrative.
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Start in Casablanca (your flight will probably take you there anyway), but use the extensive train and bus system to get to the Fez (and its dizzying medina), Marrakesh (and the wildly colorful Jardin Majorelle) and the coastal town of Essaouira (and its piers, where you can eat fresh-off-the-boat seafood).
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"Fresh Off the Boat" had been renewed by ABC for a second season, and Wong's first Netflix special, "Baby Cobra," which she filmed while eight months pregnant, with a belly so swollen she looked structurally unsound, had become a smash hit, turning her from a gigging stand-up comic into a breakout star.
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At least that's what detractors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been saying, and in the time since ABC made headlines by programming a slate of comedies (including "black-ish" and "Fresh Off the Boat") created by and focusing on people of color, the television landscape certainly seems more diverse.
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But now director Jon M. Chu's movie, which is full of shining performances by Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat), Awkwafina (Ocean's 8), Michelle Yeoh (Star Trek: Discovery), Gemma Chan (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), and newcomer Henry Golding, is here, and it's on track to be the event movie of the summer.
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Current shows such as "Black-ish," about an African-American family; "Fresh Off the Boat," about an Asian-American family; and "Speechless," about a boy with special needs, are examples of the kind of diversity in programming that can entertain but also educate, said Ciulla Lipkin, of the National Center for Media Literacy Education.
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Even though most of the network's drama lineup has collapsed, its family comedies tend to do pretty well, and shows like Fresh Off the Boat and The Goldbergs have proved they can hold their own (which is why both are now leading their respective hours, instead of hanging in the more comfortable half-hour slot).
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The difference between Cobra Kai and retro shows like GLOW or Fresh Off the Boat is that, while the latter offer stories we should have told then but didn't, the former demonstrates the result of the stories we did tell the first time, and forces us to be aware of our complicity in ignoring their flaws.
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If she had ever bothered to watch black-ish or Fresh Off the Boat, she might have realized that the two shows convey exactly the opposite sentiment: that Black and Asian families each engage in their own distinctive struggles and joys that have as many differences between them as between the working-class white family she's a part of.
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The lucky almost-dozen included Grey's Anatomy (Season 13), Scandal (Season 6), How to Get Away With Murder (Season 20163), Once Upon a Time (Season 6), The Goldbergs (Season 4), Marvel's Agents of SHIELD (Season 4), The Middle (Season 8), Fresh Off the Boat (Season 3), Modern Family (Season 8), black-ish (Season 3) and Quantico (Season 2).
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Based loosely on the life of Taiwanese-American chef and TV personality Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat is set in the mid-'90s, and it addresses the ways the Americanized values of a hip-hop-loving slacker teen (Hudson Yang) conflict with the values of his hard-working entrepreneurial father Louis (Randall Park) and his intense, demanding mother Jessica (Constance Wu).
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Celebrities like Aziz Ansari ("Every immigrant's journey is truly incredible"), George Takei ("Even after internment, still love America"), Mila Kunis and other stars penned their own Six-Word Memoirs for the book, some of which EW can reveal exclusively below, along with the foreword to Six Words Fresh Off the Boat, written by the show's creator Nahnatchka Khan and EP Melvin Marr.
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Brothers Evan and Emery Huang, founders of Batu Capital Brothers Evan and Emery Huang, founders of Batu Capital Restaurateur and raconteur Eddie Huang is the best known of the three "Fresh off the Boat" brothers (it was his memoir that inspired the ABC sitcom), but his younger brothers Emery and Evan remain relatively mysterious even to its most loyal viewers.
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"Attractiveness is a very haphazard dish that can't be boiled down to height or skin color, but Asian men are told that regardless of what the idyllic mirepoix is or isn't, we just don't have the ingredients," Fresh Off the Boat author Eddie Huang wrote for the New York Times, spurred by an offensive segment Steve Harvey had on his talk show.
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Maisel (Amazon) Modern Family (ABC) Patriot (Amazon) Best Actor in a Comedy Series Anthony Anderson – Black-ish (ABC) Aziz Ansari – Master of None (Netflix) Hank Azaria – Brockmire (IFC) Ted Danson – The Good Place (NBC) Thomas Middleditch – Silicon Valley (HBO) Randall Park – Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) Best Actress in a Comedy Series Kristen Bell – The Good Place (NBC) Alison Brie – GLOW (Netflix) Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs.
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Huang's debut memoir, "Fresh Off the Boat," which detailed his pugnacious years of youth and young adulthood and his profound affection for hip-hop music, concealed, behind its tales of crude violence in the parvenu suburbs of Orlando and its narrator's relentless code-switching, a subtle tracing of the continuities between black culture as imagined by Huang and Chinese culture as incarnated by his parents.
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Sure, the critics will mostly prefer the non-traditional work; Richard Morgan of the Washington Post, while acknowledging that Will & Grace may have been necessary as "a charm offensive for for the sake of straight America's tolerance of LGBT America," hoped that the new episodes would be more challenging in the manner of Atlanta, Black-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, and Master of None.
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Since then, we've seen more depictions of cultural confusion crop up, particularly in the US with shows like Fresh Off The Boat and Master Of None, but there's still no definitive handbook on how to navigate life as the child of immigrants or the child of a diplomat who moves country every two years, unsure of what life you "should" or "could" be leading.
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One area in which diversity has seen an uptick recently is in television: Shows like ABC's Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat and the ratings behemoth that was the first season of Fox's Empire proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that not only is there an audience for series centered on nonwhite characters, but that they have the potential to be hugely successful.
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Though most of the movie finds our hero Billy Batson (Asher Angel as a kid, Zachary Levi as Shazam) struggling to bond with his foster family — a band of kids played precocious child actors from some of your favorite TV shows (This Is Us, Fresh Off the Boat) and movies (It) — in the final battle, Billy remembers that the wizard who gave him his powers spoke of powerful brothers and sisters.
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The next time a man calls you a bitch — because, let's face it, it's bound to happen sooner or later, whether you know the jerk or not — take a cue from Constance Wu. The Crazy Rich Asians and Fresh Off the Boat actress kicked off her speech at yesterday's Women's March in Los Angeles with a story about being blasted with the B-word by a guy she'd rejected.
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Celebrity Family Feud (ABC) Chicago Fire (NBC) Chicago Med (NBC) Chicago P.D. (NBC) Code Black (CBS) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) Criminal Minds (CBS) Dancing With the Stars (ABC) Designated Survivor (ABC) DC's Legends of Tomorrow (The CW) Elementary (CBS) Empire (Fox) The Exorcist (Fox) The Flash (The CW) Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) The Goldbergs (ABC) – The show has been renewed through the 2018-'19 TV season.
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Groundbreaking work The big-screen version of Kwan's book -- the first Hollywood movie with an all-Asian cast since Disney made "The Joy Luck Club" in 1993 -- stars Constance Wu of ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" as Rachel Chu, a Chinese-American economics professor who follows her longtime boyfriend, Singaporean Nick Young, played by newcomer Henry Golding, to his homeland to attend his best friend's wedding and meet his family.
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For Jeff Yang, parent of "Fresh Off the Boat" actor Hudson Yang, contributor to CNN Opinion, and author of "I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action," revivals also have the problem of limiting diversity by hearkening back to the days of all-white casts being de rigueur: "It's not a coincidence that by mining the nostalgic past for retreads, you strip away decades of progress in diverse casting," he wrote.
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Bringing Kevin Kwan's hit novel to the screen, "Crazy Rich Asians" gets the most important part of the movie very right, casting Constance Wu ("Fresh Off the Boat") as Rachel Chu -- the New York economics professor thrust into a world of staggering opulence, and almost-to-scale sniping and judgment -- and Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor, the imperious mother of Rachel's otherwise-perfect boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding, making a strong bid for romantic heartthrob status).
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The release of One Day at a Time isn't the only current event that makes the documentary worth revisiting — contemporary family sitcoms have lately been veering back toward the Lear mold, including Modern Family, Fresh Off the Boat, and especially Black-ish, which has aired several episodes that feel like Lear shows (on police brutality and biracial dating and identity) as well as a whole episode set in the Good Times universe.
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From One Day at a Time and Fresh Off The Boat giving their teenage girls room to figure out their sexualities, to The Bold Type doing the same for a 20-something who never thought she was into women, to Master of None devoting an episode to Denise's lifelong coming out process, to Brooklyn Nine-Nine revealing that Rosa is bisexual, TV kinda crushed it on this front, and I am thrilled.
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Maisel (Amazon) Sutton Foster – Younger (TV Land) Ellie Kemper – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Constance Wu – Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Tituss Burgess – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Walton Goggins – Vice Principals (HBO) Sean Hayes – Will & Grace (NBC) Marc Maron – GLOW (Netflix) Kumail Nanjiani – Silicon Valley (HBO) Ed O'Neill – Modern Family (ABC) Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Mayim Bialik – The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs.
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It's obviously nice to see a rom-com built around Asian-American leads, with "Maybe" coming after the breakout box-office success of "Crazy Rich Asians," which starred Park's "Fresh Off the Boat" co-star, Constance Wu. In addition, the film marks the feature directing debut of that show's producer, Nahnatchka Khan, and what amounts to an extended cameo by Reeves, who temporarily invests the whole exercise with a jolt of goofball energy that almost seems borrowed from another movie.
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Everything we'll see again next year: American Crime America's Funniest Home Videos The Bachelor black-ish The Catch Dancing with the Stars Dr. Ken Fresh Off the Boat The Goldbergs Grey's Anatomy How to Get Away with Murder Last Man Standing Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Middle Modern Family Once Upon a Time Quantico The Real O'Neals Scandal Shark Tank Perhaps the most shocking renewal of the season was actually one for a CBS show that's not listed below — Supergirl.
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When I asked Yuan what he and his friends had done for fun, he began to describe a life that would feel very familiar to anyone who grew up in any of the Asian enclaves in the United States: boba shops, Pokémon, study groups, rich F.O.B.s (Asian immigrants who are ''fresh off the boat'') and the uneven attention from parents who feel the need to pressure their children but who, because of the language barrier and cultural ignorance, often don't know what they have become.
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In the next few years, ABC expanded its family-comedy block, which now features a set of smart and varied series, generally framed by voice-overs: there's the well-off African-American family on "Black-ish," whose stories are narrated by the formerly poor dad Dre; the nineteen-nineties Taiwanese-American immigrants of "Fresh Off the Boat," whose narration, by the tween son Eddie, was abandoned in Season 2; the eighties middle-class Jewish family of "The Goldbergs," framed by the nostalgic youngest son, Adam; and this season's début, "The Real O'Neals," which is about divorcing Irish Catholics in Chicago, narrated by their gay teen-age son, Kenny.
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The Nice Guys Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Arrival 10 Cloverfield Lane Doctor Strange Don't Breathe Star Trek Beyond The Witch TV Best Comedy Series Silicon Valley -- HBO Atlanta -- FX Black-ish -- ABC Fleabag -- Amazon Modern Family -- ABC Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt -- Netflix Veep -- HBO Best Actress In A Comedy Series Kate McKinnon -- Saturday Night Live -- NBC Ellie Kemper -- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt -- Netflix Julia Louis-Dreyfus -- Veep -- HBO Tracee Ellis Ross -- Black-ish -- ABC Phoebe Waller-Bridge -- Fleabag -- Amazon Constance Wu -- Fresh Off the Boat -- ABC Best Actor In A Comedy Series Donald Glover -- Atlanta -- FX Anthony Anderson -- Black-ish -- ABC Will Forte -- The Last Man on Earth -- FOX Bill Hader -- Documentary Now!
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Pictures) Moonlight – Paula (Naomie Harris) tells Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) that she loves him (A24) This Is Us – Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Randall (Lonnie Chavis) at karate (NBC) Next Generation Chrissy Metz Daniel Kaluuya Issa Rae Riz Ahmed Yara Shahidi Best Duo Adam Levine & Blake Shelton – The Voice (NBC) Daniel Kaluuya & Lil Rel Howery – Get Out (Universal Pictures) Brian Tyree Henry & Lakeith Stanfield – Atlanta (FX) Hugh Jackman & Dafne Keen – Logan (20th Century Fox) Josh Gad & Luke Evans – Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg – Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party (VH1) Best American Story Blackish (ABC) Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) Jane the Virgin (The CW) Moonlight (A24) Transparent (Amazon) Best Fight Against The System Get Out (Universal Pictures) Hidden Figures (20th Century Fox) Loving (Focus Features) Luke Cage (Netflix) Mr. Robot (USA)
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Pictures) Moonlight – Paula (Naomie Harris) tells Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) that she loves him (A24) This Is Us – Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Randall (Lonnie Chavis) at karate (NBC) NEXT GENERATION Chrissy Metz Daniel Kaluuya Issa Rae Riz Ahmed Yara Shahidi BEST DUO Adam Levine & Blake Shelton – The Voice (NBC) Daniel Kaluuya & Lil Rel Howery – Get Out (Universal Pictures) Brian Tyree Henry & Lakeith Stanfield – Atlanta (FX) Hugh Jackman & Dafne Keen – Logan (20th Century Fox) Josh Gad & Luke Evans – Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg – Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party (VH1) BEST AMERICAN STORY Blackish (ABC) Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) Jane the Virgin (The CW) Moonlight (A24)Transparent (Amazon) BEST FIGHT AGAINST THE SYSTEM Get Out (Universal Pictures) Hidden Figures (20th Century Fox) Loving (Focus Features)Luke Cage (Netflix) Mr. Robot (USA) The MTV Movie & TV Awards, hosted by Adam Devine, will air Sunday, May 7 at 8 P.M.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox) The Catch (ABC) The Carmichael Show (NBC) The Celebrity Apprentice (NBC) Chicago Fire (NBC) Chicago Med (NBC) Chicago P.D. (NBC) Code Black (CBS) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) Criminal Minds (CBS) Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (CBS) Dancing with the Stars (ABC) DC's Legends of Tomorrow (The CW) Dr. Ken (ABC) Elementary (CBS) Empire (Fox) Family Guy (Fox) The Flash (The CW) Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) The Goldbergs (ABC) Gotham (Fox) Grey's Anatomy (ABC) Grimm (NBC) Hawaii Five-0 (CBS) How to Get Away With Murder (ABC) iZombie (The CW) Jane the Virgin (The CW) The Last Man on Earth (Fox) Last Man Standing (ABC) Law & Order: SVU (NBC) Life in Pieces (CBS) Little Big Shots (NBC) Lucifer (Fox) Madam Secretary (CBS) Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC) MasterChef (Fox) The Middle (ABC) Mistresses (ABC) Modern Family (ABC) Mom (CBS) Nashville (CMT) — Nashville was canceled by ABC, but it will live on on CMT.
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Renewed 20/20, America's Funniest Home Videos, American Housewife, American Idol, The Bachelor, Black-ish, Bless This Mess, The Conners, Dancing With the Stars, Fresh Off the Boat, The Goldbergs, The Good Doctor, Grey's Anatomy (for two more seasons), How to Get Away With Murder, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., A Million Little Things, Modern Family (renewed for a final season), The Rookie, Schooled, Shark Tank, Single Parents, Station 213 Canceled The Alec Baldwin Show*, Child Support, Dancing With the Stars: Juniors, The Fix, For the People, The Gong Show, The Kids Are Alright, The Proposal, Speechless, Splitting Up Together, Take Two, Whiskey Cavalier Hasn't premiered yet Card Sharks (June 12), Family Food Fight (June 20), Grand Hotel (June 17), Holey Moley (June 20), Press Your Luck (June 12), Reef Break (June 20) Renewed off-cycle The $100,000 Pyramid (returns June 9),The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise (returns July 163), Celebrity Family Feud (returns June 9), Match Game (returns June 12), To Tell the Truth (returns June 9) Note: ABC claims it has not canceled The Alec Baldwin Show.
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