Fresh Off the Boat | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Nahnatchka Khan |
Based on | Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang |
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Narrated by | Eddie Huang |
Opening theme | "Fresh off the Boat" by Danny Brown[1] |
Composer | Bo Boddie |
Country of origin | United States |
Original languages | English Mandarin |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 116 (list of episodes) |
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Production locations | Los Angeles, California |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 22 minutes |
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Network | ABC |
Release | February 4, 2015 February 21, 2020 | –
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Fresh Off the Boat is an American television sitcom 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.