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Fresh Off the Boat is an American sitcom television series created by Nahnatchka Khan and produced by 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. It is loosely inspired by the life of chef and food personality Eddie Huang and his 2013 autobiography of the same name. Huang also executive produced the series and narrated its first season. Depicting the life of a Taiwanese-American family in Florida in the 1990s, the series stars Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler, Ian Chen, and Lucille Soong as the Huang family as well as Chelsey Crisp and Ray Wise portraying the family's next-door neighbors.

The series premiered its first two episodes on ABC in February 2015 to positive critical reception, becoming the first network television sitcom in the U.S. to feature a family of Asian Americans as main characters in over 20 years. Prior to its second season, the series went through a retooling, which included Huang's departure as narrator. It received accolades as well as nominations for major awards, such as Critics' Choice Television Award and NAACP Image Award nominations. After becoming the first series featuring an all Asian American main cast to broadcast over 100 episodes, the series concluded on February 21, 2020 after six seasons.

Set during the 1990s, the series revolves around the Huangs, a Taiwanese-American family comprising parents Louis and Jessica, their children Eddie, Emery, and Evan, and Louis's mother, Jenny, following their relocation from Chinatown of Washington, D.C. to Orlando, Florida to open a cowboy-themed steakhouse.[2][3][4] Season two chronicles the burgeoning success of the family-owned restaurant, named Cattleman's Ranch, Jessica's partnership with the Huangs' neighbor Honey on a business venture, and Eddie's troublemaking tendencies as well as his relationship with his mother.[5][6] The third season sees the Huang family continue to assimilate into their community, with Jessica obtaining her U.S. citizenship and deciding how she wants to parent her sons, each of the Huang children continuing their schooling, and Louis contemplating selling the steakhouse.[7][8][9]

The fourth season follows Jessica as she pens her novel titled A Case of a Knife to the Brain and Eddie as he enters freshman year while also supporting his friend and neighbor Nicole after she comes out as gay,[10][11][12][13] while the fifth sees Jessica's unsuccessful novel release and the events that follow; the pregnancy of Honey, the Huangs' neighbor and Jessica's best friend; and Eddie entering a cultural exchange program to visit Taiwan.[14] The final season follows Jessica becoming an educator, Louis becoming a business consultant, Evan undergoing puberty, Emery taking up acting, and Eddie contemplating his future as he approaches the end of his high school years.[15][16][17]

Eddie Huang's 2013 autobiography, Fresh Off the Boat, caught the attention of television networks upon its release, with ABC and 20th Century Fox Television ordering a pilot episode for a series based on the memoir in August.[25] Writer Nahnatchka Khan, who was known as the creator and executive producer of fellow ABC sitcom Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, was hired to write and executive produce the pilot, while Huang himself was brought on as an executive producer.[25] In February 2014, Constance Wu and Randall Park were the first two actors announced to star in the series as its leads.[26] A month later, it was announced that Hudson Yang would be portraying Huang in the series.[27]

After the series was titled Far East Orlando during its development stage, Huang led a Twitter campaign to change the title to that of his autobiography.[18][28] Regarding the title change, Khan stated that "going the 'unsafe' route and picking a title that announces itself and doesn't apologize made sense."[29] In May 2014, ABC announced a full season order of the series during the May 2014 upfront to air in 2015 as a mid-season replacement.[30][31][32]

With its premiere on February 4, 2015,[33] Fresh Off the Boat became the first U.S. television sitcom starring an Asian American family to air on network primetime since Margaret Cho's All-American Girl, which aired for one season in 1994.[34][35][36] Khan stated that even though she herself was not Chinese, she was not worried about inauthenticity because she was "focused on character and comedy and story".[29] Regarding balancing the representation of the Asian American experience versus the specificity of the characterization of the Huang family, Wu stated: "Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians."[37] In a 2015 interview, Wu further stated that after the first season, she had become more comfortable asking the show's staff to change particular details, for example changing "generic Asian food [in a scene] ... to a 1,000-year-old black egg with tofu and scallions, [which] will be a little more specific, and specificity is just better for character, and it's more interesting than, say, tofu and rice."[38] The series also regularly features dialogues in Mandarin.[39][40]

Khan stepped down as the series' showrunner in 2019 while remaining a consulting producer for the rest of the series; she was replaced by producers Keith Hesler and Matt Kuhn.[17] Regarding directing, recurring directors throughout the series include Lynn Shelton, who directed the pilot and went on to direct a total of nine episodes,[41][42] Claire Scanlon,[43] Anya Adams,[44] and Gail Mancuso.[45] Park made his directorial debut as the director of the final episode of the series.[46]

While it is set in Orlando, Florida, Fresh Off the Boat was mainly filmed in Stage 14, located at 20th Century Fox in Century City in Los Angeles.[39] During the production of the third season, the series conducted filming in Taipei, Taiwan for three days.[47] Filming for the series had concluded as of January 2020.[48]

After Fresh Off the Boat's first season, Eddie Huang reduced his involvement with the series, including no longer being the narrator, due to creative differences with ABC, as well as time constraints with other projects. He remains credited as a producer, and the show's credits continued to note that the series is based on his memoir.[49] With Huang's departure, ABC decided not to recast the narrator role, dropping it from the series altogether.[50]

The series also experienced a change regarding its character focus, which was broadened to encompass the entire Huang family, namely Louis and Jessica, rather than on Eddie only.[51][6] Additionally, recurring cast members Lucille Soong and Chelsey Crisp were both promoted to the main cast,[23][22] while Ray Wise became a series regular beginning in season three.[24]

On May 7, 2015, ABC renewed Fresh off the Boat for a second season of 13 episodes.[52] ABC ordered 9 additional episodes on October 13 and two more on November 17, leading to a total of 24 episodes for the second season.[53][54] On March 3, 2016, ABC announced that the series has been renewed for a third season, which premiered on October 11, 2016.[55] On May 12, 2017, ABC renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on October 3, 2017.[56] On May 11, 2018, ABC renewed the series for a fifth season, which premiered on October 5.[57] On May 10, 2019, ABC renewed the series for a sixth season.[58] The sixth season premiered on September 27, 2019.[59] On November 8, 2019, ABC announced that the series was to end following the conclusion of its sixth season.[60] The season contained 15 episodes, with the two-part series finale airing on February 21, 2020.[61][62]

Wu received backlash after she posted profane tweets about the sixth-season renewal in May 2019.[63] Following the tweets, Karey Burke, President of ABC Entertainment Group, stated that there were no plans to recast the role of Jessica.[64] Wu publicly apologized, stating that the series' renewal forced her to decline a role in a project she was passionate about, as scheduling would not permit her to do both. She further clarified that she loved her castmates and that her posts had nothing to do with animosity towards them.[65] In 2022, Wu said that she had experienced sexual harassment, intimidation, and threats by a producer during the first two seasons of the series.[66] She related the experience to her complaints about the series receiving a sixth season.[67]

On November 8, 2014, the premiere of the pilot episode was hosted by the San Diego Asian Film Festival.[68] The show debuted on ABC with two preview episodes on February 4, 2015. The second episode, which aired after Modern Family, was promoted as a bonus episode, and formally premiered in its primetime slot on February 10, 2015.[69] The first of the two preview episodes garnered 7.94 million viewers, becoming the second-highest rated comedy premiere that season.[1][70]

Fresh Off the Boat premiered on FOX8 in Australia on May 10, 2015;[71] It was also picked up by Network Ten, and started airing on March 7, 2016, on its sister channel, Eleven until October 2017. It debuted on March 12, 2015, in South Africa on Fox Crime.[72] In South Asia, Fresh Off The Boat, airs 12 hours after the U.S. broadcast on Star World Premiere HD.[73] In the UK, the first season originally premiered on Amazon Video on February 4, 2015. The second season premiered on September 22, 2015. On November 1, 2017 Fresh Off the Boat received its television premiere on Channel 5's sister channel 5Star starting with the pilot episode.[74] In Israel, it is broadcast by satellite provider yes.[75]

On July 23, 2018, it was announced that American cable networks Freeform and Up TV have licensed the cable syndication rights to the first five seasons of the series.[76] In April 2019, the series aired its 100th episode, effectively becoming the first series featuring an all Asian American cast to reach the milestone.[39] As of November of the same year, the series is the longest-running Asian American family sitcom in television history.[77]

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