Humphrey Barclay became Head of Comedy at LWT in 1977 and supervised various successful series including "No, Honestly", "A Fine Romance" (1981–84). In May 1980 he unveiled "Metal Mickey" as a show "with the appeal of "Star Wars", the Daleks and "Mork and Mindy"" Following criticism at the Edinburgh International Television Festival of what was seen as casual racism the LWT series "Mind Your Language" (1977–79; 1986), Barclay commissioned "No Problem!", transmitted by Channel 4 during 1983–85, the first original black-made sitcom for British TV (an earlier series featuring a black family, "The Fosters" (ITV, 1976–77), had been a remake of a
Asian Americans in arts and entertainment has become well known for portraying Dong Nguyen in the Netflix series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt". The first American sitcom starring an all Asian-American family since Margaret Cho's "All American Girl" aired in February 2015, gaining overall critical acclaim among the television series community. Among its cast is Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang and Ian Chen. It is loosely based on food personality Eddie Huang's book, "". The sitcom Dr. Ken featured an Asian American family and aired from 2015 to 2017. Anna May Wong was the first Asian American to have become an international acting star. She became a