Chinese sitcoms.
I was talking with Ash tonight when suddenly there was an advertisement on tv for “Da Kink In My Hair” and it got me thinking how you do not see a lot of shows created for a target audience of a certain race. This is not to say if you are not black you cannot watch Da Kink In My Hair, I’m just saying it’s not trying to connect with a 40 year old caucasian as its target market. Same goes with that show with George Lopez (oh fuck I hope it’s George Lopez in it or I’m in trouble) that’s designed to reach a more Hispanic/Mexican audience, there’s an assortment of race oriented shows, even Little Mosque On The Prairie! Now, I understand why these shows exist, there’s a lot of different races in the Western society so they are reaching out to them since 99% of shows are using caucasians. But how come they have nothing for the Chinese? Surely there’s almost as many Asians in North America as there are most races non-caucasian! Why the fuck do they not have a show here with awkward situations, cheesy dialogue and rom com formula’s making a “hit” North American chinese sitcom? It seems like it would be a dynamite of a show! Can you even think of any shows with a Chinese character playing even close to a lead? (only one we could think of was the neighbour in King Of The Hill).
Can you think of any???
***ps: the blogs back, you can start checking it again, sorry, after 9 flights and being away half the year I’ve got more time to do things again!!! We’re over the hump of busy’ness and moving forward now!
pps: image searching “asian” brings up primarily porn…when I tried searching almost any other “race” it didn’t have the same results…weird…