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.
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
I feel like a badass, Liang told
TVLine ahead of the first episode. This show is my first real experience with martial arts, and I feel so privileged that I get to learn it for my job. Doing these beautifully choreographed fight sequences, it just really makes me feel strong, and it s really translating into my personal life of just feeling a lot more powerful and a lot taller and stronger and bigger and just ready to take on the world.
While its predecessor, which starred David Carradine, followed a white man, this new reboot celebrates Asian culture with its predominantly Asian and Asian American cast – something that Liang says she loves but also finds jarring given what is happening in the world right now when it comes to anti-Asian hate crimes.