American television series with Asian leads

American television series with Asian leads/co-leads means a scripted American television series that features an actor of Asian ancestry as the series' leading actor portraying the series' protagonist or a main character. One of the earliest examples dates back to 1951 with Anna May Wong a classic Hollywood-era movie star with her TV show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong.[1] Typically, the characters portrayed are Asian American, although the actor or actress may sometimes be Canadian, British, or Australian.

List of television series

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

See also

References

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