centers on a 16-year-old half Asian, half white girl who works as a doctor. The lead character’s ethnicity reflects Hawaii-born Kang’s own background — she previously tapped into her experiences growing up in a mixed-race family in a comedy pilot for NBC.
Bochco’s widow, Dayna Bochco, and son, Jesse Bochco, executive produce the reboot alongside Kang as well as Jake Kasdan and Melvin Mar. 20th Century Fox TV, where Kang, Kasdan and his producing partner Mar are overall deals, is the studio., which Kasdan and Mar executive produced. Prior to that Kang was one of the key writer-producers on CBS/20th TV’She was on the popular ensemble comedy for its entire nine-season run, rising from a staff writer to executive producer.
Lead character is half haole/half Asian with a Hawaiian last name? How’s that?
silva0072 Kealoha is a Hawaiian name...how clueless.
If they’re calling her Kealoha, she should be a Hawaiian actress.
Doogie Howzit, brah?
the woman in that photo looks about 26.
Need to make sure the 16 yo really looks like a 16 yo. Original was good because Doogie really looked like a kid.
Her name’s still Doogie?