I love this show and everything it stood for. "I wanted to be a part of the sixth season.
Liu sought to quash the idea that since landing the Marvel superhero movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, slated to release this fall, he'd become "too Hollywood" and would shrug off Canadian opportunities. 'I wanted to be part of the sixth season' Kim's Convenience producers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "It's not our place to speak for the producers or Simu Liu." " Kim's Convenience had a great run on CBC and we're excited about Simu's new project," said CBC's head of public affairs, Chuck Thompson, who declined further comment. The young adult romantic drama is scheduled to launch in winter 2022. On Wednesday, CBC announced Liu as a co-creator of a new CBC Gem series called Hello (Again), alongside Canadian writer-producer Nathalie Younglai. Liu called out Kim's Convenience producers for ending the show, and remarked how CBC and Netflix "merely license it."
Power will star as her Kim's character, Shannon Ross, in the spinoff Strays. Phung will star in Run the Burbs as a stay-at-home dad with an entrepreneur wife and two kids. Kim's Convenience stars Andrew Phung and Nicole Power are each getting their own show.
"And not that they would ever ask, but I will adamantly refuse to reprise my role in any capacity." I love and am proud of Nicole, and I want the show to succeed for her," Liu wrote in his post, "but I remain resentful of all of the circumstances that led to the one non-Asian character getting her own show. Actors moving on to new projectsĪnd while Kim's Convenience has shut its doors, there are still plans for a spinoff with actor Nicole Power, who portrays Shannon on the show.
In 2019, Choi partnered with BIPOC TV & Film and The Regent Park Film Festival in Toronto to offer a six-hour TV writing workshop to eight writers of colour. Showrunners also led a week-long writers' room at Theatre Alberta in 2018 to mentor emerging, diverse writers in the development of actual storylines for the show. Over the years of the show's production, there have been attempts to connect with the community at large.
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