Awkwafina is Nora From Queens, which already has landed an early second season renewal, has scored for Comedy Central. The premiere episode drew a .31 rating among Adults 18-49 and 489,000 total viewers for its January 22 debut, the network’s highest-rated season one premiere since 2017. Among Women 18-49, the…
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens can easily be a spiritual sequel or a spinoff of Comedy Central’s wildly popular series Broad City. Although the show from the newly minted Golden Globe winner lives in the same universe as Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s trend-setting BFF comedy of female empowerment, Nora From Queens…
Just a day after the Oscar snub for her Golden Globe winning performance in Lulu Wang’s critically acclaimed film The Farewell,Awkwafina couldn’t escape the topic even though she was at TCA to discuss the new Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens.
Awkwafina said that after the Academy Award nominations…
Similar to last year, the 92nd Academy Awards will be going hostless on February 9, but this morning's Oscar nominations certainly had their share of unexpected disclosure for Hollywood's biggest night.
Revealed by Issa Rae and John Cho in the pre-dawn hours out here on the West Coast, the contenders for the Golden…
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert returns from its holiday hiatus tonight, and the host is wasting no time catching up. “We’re happy to be back — really excited to be here,” Colbert said in opening his first monologue of the 2020s. “Now there have recently been momentous, world-shaking events, and let’s get right to…
Awkwafina, Kaitlyn Dever, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Micheal Ward and Jack Lowden have been nominated for the 2020 BAFTA Rising Star award.
Awkwafina, a Golden Globe winner on Sunday night, was nominated for The Farewell; Dever for Booksmart (the U.S. actress was also Golden Globe-nominated for Netflix series Unbelievable);…
The surprises started early at the 77th Golden Globes when Ramy Youssef from his Hulu series Ramy was the upset winner of night’s first award, best television actor in a comedy/musical, but most of the shocks were saved for the show’s third hour, when Taron Egerton and Awkwafina won top acting awards in categories…
When Lulu Wang's The Farewell debuted at Sundance, it immediately became the talk of Hollywood. The dramedy based on Wang's own story about her family keeping her grandmother's cancer diagnosis a secret goes beyond family issues. It's also an immigration story that explores cultural identity through Awkwafina's…
EXCLUSIVE: Awkwafina is about to blow our minds by pairing two unlikely things: Chinatown restaurants and the California punk scene from the 1970s and ’80s. The Crazy Rich Asians breakout and Jumanji: The Next Level star is collaborating with Topic Studios to develop a yet-to-be-titled feature film inspired by the…
Character Media (formerly known as Kore Asian Media) hosted the 18th annual Unforgettable Gala on Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles to honor and recognize Asian American icons and changmakers in the entertainment industry, who are representing the API community through their creativity and…
Although she was one of many deserving women NOT nominated for the suddenly controversial all-male lineup of Best Director Golden Globe contenders Monday, Lulu Wang is continuing to ride a wave of praise from critics groups and other awards entities for her much acclaimed hit indie film The Farewell, which DID win her…
Awkwafina and Zhao Shuzhen are the duo at the heart of Lulu Wang's The Farewell. Awkwafina is Billi, an Asian-American New Yorker returning to China for one last chance to see Nai Nai, her terminally-ill grandmother, played by Shuzhen. But there's a catch: the family have decided Nai Nai must not be told her diagnosis…
