Amidst all the changes ABC made to its schedule yesterday, canceling half a dozen of its shows and announcing several new ones to take their place, a few series seemed to be left off of this grand TV merry-go-round. Most notably, the network was cagey about two of its more critically appreciated comedies: freshman…

Sitcom vet Fred Savage is teaming up with Fresh Off The Boat producers Nahnatchka Khan and Kourtney Kang for a new comedy about growing up in a mixed-race family for NBC. The untitled series will be written by Kang—whose other credits include a multi-year stint on How I Met Your Mother—and based on her own experiences…

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Christmas has come early for Black-ish, The Goldbergs, and Speechless—Variety reports ABC’s extended the episode orders for these series and several of its other new and returning comedies. Kenya Barris’ delightful sitcom and the charming Goldbergs each picked up two more episodes for a total of 24, while The Middle, …

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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

Even though the season-two finale of Fresh Off The Boat made it almost certain that the Huangs would be traveling to their native Taiwan, the journey still feels like a big deal. For one, the season-three premiere marks the first time that any American network television show—sitcom or otherwise—has been filmed in the…

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When With Bob And David premiered on Netflix last year, it seemed like a minor comedy miracle. In everything but the name, the series was a revival of beloved HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show, with creators Bob Odenkirk and David Cross reuniting with each other and a lot of the people who worked on the old show. Of…

Since their seasons tend to be so long, most network sitcoms end up recycling plot devices at a certain point in their run. But Fresh Off The Boat’s doing it earlier than usual by essentially repeating the central concept of “Success Perm,” an episode that aired a little over a year ago. Both installments deal with…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, May 24. All times are Eastern.

Earlier this month, a 25-year-old digital media strategist named William Yu launched a site called Starring John Cho. The site, which is meant to protest the whitewashing of Asian characters in Hollywood movies, photoshops Harold & Kumar star and new Sulu John Cho into movie posters, making him the leading man. We…

“The Manchurian Dinner Date” sets up an explosive confrontation between Eddie and Jessica, only to resolve their conflict with a satisfied sigh. To the writers’ credit, it’s an unexpected move when considering the forcefulness of Jessica’s personality. She spends the entire episode gushing over Eddie’s (fake)…

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While convincing “Corey the video rental guy” that he’s a connoisseur of fine films au cinéma, Louis learns someone from the family has been making mysterious movie rentals on his card. Puzzled, he searches the house. Nothing in the kid’s room (except a troubling picture of Jessica under Evan’s pillow), nothing in…

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I’ve heard several people complain that, in its second season, Fresh Off The Boat hasn’t explored the Huangs’ Chinese heritage as much as it did in its first season; that the show has become less about being Asian-American and more about being a generic ABC sitcom. I respectfully disagree. While there’s no point in…

Juliet (you know the one) once asked “What’s in a name?” Of course, she then also immediately asks Romeo to change his name (as if that would’ve solved all their problems?) because Juliet knew that names carry meaning for ourselves and those around us, whether we like it or not. “Hi, My Name Is…” attempts to answer…