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.
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 â Christina M. Kim, whose credits include Blindspot and Lost, is the new version s showrunner â nothing else.
In the latest adventure series from Arrowverse honcho Greg Berlanti, Olivia Liang plays Nicky Shen, who spin-kicks things off with a narrated quick trip charting her progress from Harvard college girl to kung fu fighter. Realizing that the cultural tour of China on which she s been sent by her mother is just a dodge to find her a nice Chinese boy, Nicky bolts, jumping into the back of a truc
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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 “Blindspot” and “Lost,” is the new version’s showrunner nothing else.
4/7/2021
The CW s latest stars Olivia Liang as a Shaolin-trained woman who returns to San Francisco after three years in China only to discover a triad menacing her family.
As near-trends go, The CW s devious recent pattern of using macho dad brands as a Trojan horse for heartwarming family dramas is one I m partial to. Like
Walker, the network s
Kung Fu has its own share of problems. But the inevitability that fans of the 70s show of the same title checking out this semi-remake will freak out and then tune out is absolutely a feature and not a bug.
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