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Brandon Yu April 19, 2021
Tony Chung (left) as Dennis Song, Jon Prasida as Ryan Shen, Tzi Ma as Jin Shen, Olivia Liang as Nicky Shen and Shannon Dang as Althea Shen in the CW reboot of “Kung Fu.” Photo: Katie Yu , CW
Like everyone else, those behind the new CW series “Kung Fu” distinctly remember the wild sequence of events in March 2020, when the pandemic suddenly halted everything. It was just four days into shooting the show’s pilot, a pause the cast and crew expected to last two weeks but would ultimately remain until October, when production resumed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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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 on the CW, is related by contracts and corporate history to “Kung Fu,” the 1970s David Carradine series about a half-Chinese Shaolin monk roaming the Old West; what they have in common is a main character schooled in martial arts whose mentor is killed. And, apart from a title and a screen credit for Ed Spielman, who created the original series – Christina M. Kim, whose credits include �
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 isolated monastery in China.
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 isolated monastery in China.