New York-based streaming network FilmRise has acquired the Fast (free ad-supported streaming) rights to Canadian comedy series “Kim’s Convenience,” following an agreement with Canadian production company Thunderbird Entertainment, FilmRise announced on Wednesday.
The show’s five seasons, which are currently available by subscription VOD on Netflix, will have their own dedicated channel in addition to populating on some of the platform’s other channels globally. FilmRise plans to offer the show to Fast channels on IMDb TV, Pluto, The Roku Channel, Samsung TV+, the FilmRise Streaming Network and others.
Based on Ins Choi’s award-winning play of the same name, “Kim’s Convenience” tells the story of a Korean-Canadian family that runs a convenience store in Toronto. The show first premiered in 2016 on CBC, and gained a global following after debuting on Netflix in 2018. The cast includes Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Andrew Phung, Andrea Bang, Jean Yoon, Simu Liu and Nicole Power.
The show’s five seasons, which are currently available by subscription VOD on Netflix, will have their own dedicated channel in addition to populating on some of the platform’s other channels globally. FilmRise plans to offer the show to Fast channels on IMDb TV, Pluto, The Roku Channel, Samsung TV+, the FilmRise Streaming Network and others.
Based on Ins Choi’s award-winning play of the same name, “Kim’s Convenience” tells the story of a Korean-Canadian family that runs a convenience store in Toronto. The show first premiered in 2016 on CBC, and gained a global following after debuting on Netflix in 2018. The cast includes Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Andrew Phung, Andrea Bang, Jean Yoon, Simu Liu and Nicole Power.
- 1/19/2022
- by Sasha Urban and Wyatte Grantham-Philips
- Variety Film + TV
Simu Liu fights his way into a big-screen blockbuster this weekend with Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." And if you leave that film thinking, "Where can I see more of that handsome fellow?", I have the perfect answer: "Kim's Convenience." The Canadian sitcom has often been compared to another show from the Great White North, "Schitt's Creek," and perhaps that's all you need to know. But if you want a few more details on "Kim's Convenience," stick around.
Based on the play "Kim's Convenience" by Ins Choi, "Kim's Convenience" the TV show was developed by Ins Choi and Kevin White, and premiered...
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Based on the play "Kim's Convenience" by Ins Choi, "Kim's Convenience" the TV show was developed by Ins Choi and Kevin White, and premiered...
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- 9/3/2021
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
“Kim’s Convenience” star Simu Liu asks himself “every day” whether he should’ve spoken out last month on social media about his experience on the set of the hit CBC series, when he noted in a Facebook post the “overwhelmingly white” producers and lack of Korean voices in the writers’ room after creator Ins Choi departed. But Liu remembers watching what wound up being the anticlimactic series finale at the end of the fifth season, which had just been released on Netflix, and reflecting on the global impact of the show about an Asian Canadian family.
“It made me really sad [for] what could have been, and made me angry, in a lot of ways, that we weren’t able to pull things together to figure out our differences,” he told Variety in mid-June, shortly after being presented with the Canadian Award of Distinction at the 2021 Banff Rockie Awards. His co-star...
“It made me really sad [for] what could have been, and made me angry, in a lot of ways, that we weren’t able to pull things together to figure out our differences,” he told Variety in mid-June, shortly after being presented with the Canadian Award of Distinction at the 2021 Banff Rockie Awards. His co-star...
- 7/9/2021
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Simu Liu, the titular star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero offering, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, addressed the fallout from his recent Instagram post about the cancellation of the cult Canadian comedy Kim’s Convenience during a keynote at the virtual Banff World Media Festival.
“I’m not out to cancel anyone, to end anybody’s career by singling any one person out,” Liu said. Kim’s Convenience co-creators Ins Choi and Kevin White have come under a media spotlight following the cancellation and subsequent comments from Liu and other castmembers regarding issues of inclusion and representation behind the ...
“I’m not out to cancel anyone, to end anybody’s career by singling any one person out,” Liu said. Kim’s Convenience co-creators Ins Choi and Kevin White have come under a media spotlight following the cancellation and subsequent comments from Liu and other castmembers regarding issues of inclusion and representation behind the ...
- 6/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Simu Liu, the titular star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero offering in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has directly addressed the fallout from his recent Instagram post about the cancellation of the cult Canadian comedy Kim’s Convenience on Netflix.
“I’m not out to cancel anyone, to end anybody’s career by singling any one person out,” Liu told the virtual Banff World Media Festival during a keynote, as Kim’s Convenience co-creators Ins Choi and Kevin White have come under a media spotlight following the cancellation of the series after five seasons.
Liu, who has exchanged Canadian celebrity ...
“I’m not out to cancel anyone, to end anybody’s career by singling any one person out,” Liu told the virtual Banff World Media Festival during a keynote, as Kim’s Convenience co-creators Ins Choi and Kevin White have come under a media spotlight following the cancellation of the series after five seasons.
Liu, who has exchanged Canadian celebrity ...
- 6/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kim Convenience‘s Jean Yoon, who stars as the family matriarch, said that a lack of Asian women in the comedy’s writers room made the her time on the series less than ideal.
On Sunday, just days after co-star Simu Liu post a lengthy Facebook post revealing her experience on the series, Yoon defended the Shang-Chi star against The Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle. The writer dissected Liu’s criticisms and shared that the series had a number of Asian woman writers. Yoon came to her on-screen son’s defense.
“Dear sir, as an Asian Canadian woman, a Korean-Canadian woman w more experience and knowledge of the world of my characters, the lack of Asian female, especially Korean writers in the writers room of Kims made my life Very Difficult & the experience of working on the painful show,” she responded to Doyle.
“Your attack on my cast mate @SimuLiu,...
On Sunday, just days after co-star Simu Liu post a lengthy Facebook post revealing her experience on the series, Yoon defended the Shang-Chi star against The Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle. The writer dissected Liu’s criticisms and shared that the series had a number of Asian woman writers. Yoon came to her on-screen son’s defense.
“Dear sir, as an Asian Canadian woman, a Korean-Canadian woman w more experience and knowledge of the world of my characters, the lack of Asian female, especially Korean writers in the writers room of Kims made my life Very Difficult & the experience of working on the painful show,” she responded to Doyle.
“Your attack on my cast mate @SimuLiu,...
- 6/7/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Some cancellations hit harder than others, and the cancellation of Canadian hit Kim's Convenience is one of those. The fifth season of the comedy about a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store just hit Netflix in the U.S. on June 2, and fans might be surprised to know that it's also the last season, despite the fact that the show was originally renewed through season six. The creators of the show, Ins Choi and Kevin White, decided to leave after the fifth season, and the production company, Thunderbird Films, chose not to continue with the series. However, the world of Kim's Convenience is not going away. Choi and White are now focusing on a spinoff called Strays, which focuses...
- 6/2/2021
- E! Online
There's good news and bad news when it comes to the heartfelt and hilarious comedy Kim's Convenience. The good news is, its fifth season should be arriving on Netflix in only a matter of weeks. The bad news? The fifth season will also be its last.
According to TVLine, the fifth and final season is expected to arrive on Netflix "shortly after" the series finale airs on April 13 on the CBC in Canada. This follows the pattern of similar deals that Netflix frequently has with its licensed titles, with new seasons arriving on the streaming platform within just weeks of their linear network finales. In previous years, Kim's Convenience has waited a very short time between airing its season finale on CBC and the whole season dropping on Netflix internationally. For instance, the fourth season aired its season finale on March 31, 2020, and the entire fourth season arrived on Netflix the very next day,...
According to TVLine, the fifth and final season is expected to arrive on Netflix "shortly after" the series finale airs on April 13 on the CBC in Canada. This follows the pattern of similar deals that Netflix frequently has with its licensed titles, with new seasons arriving on the streaming platform within just weeks of their linear network finales. In previous years, Kim's Convenience has waited a very short time between airing its season finale on CBC and the whole season dropping on Netflix internationally. For instance, the fourth season aired its season finale on March 31, 2020, and the entire fourth season arrived on Netflix the very next day,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
The cancellation of Kim's Convenience has come as something as a surprise for everyone. After five seasons, the hit comedy will be wrapping up with its upcoming season, which is earlier than everyone had planned. The reason for the cancellation, however, seems to be pretty simple: the show's creators left to pursue other opportunities.
"To our amazing fans: Authenticity of storytelling is at the center of the success of Kim's Convenience. At the end of production on Season 5, our two co-creators confirmed they were moving onto other projects. Given their departure from the series, we have come to the difficult conclusion that we cannot deliver another season of the same heart and quality that has made the show so special," the show's producers shared in a statement posted on the show's official Twitter account.
The producers also acknowledged the show's popularity and its significance, thanking the cast, crew, and fans...
"To our amazing fans: Authenticity of storytelling is at the center of the success of Kim's Convenience. At the end of production on Season 5, our two co-creators confirmed they were moving onto other projects. Given their departure from the series, we have come to the difficult conclusion that we cannot deliver another season of the same heart and quality that has made the show so special," the show's producers shared in a statement posted on the show's official Twitter account.
The producers also acknowledged the show's popularity and its significance, thanking the cast, crew, and fans...
- 3/9/2021
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
The family store is closing. Last year, the Kim's Convenience sitcom was renewed for fifth and sixth seasons but it's now been announced that those plans have been cancelled and the family comedy will end with season five. The show is produced in Canada by CBC and airs on Netflix in the United States.
Based on a play of the same name by Ins Choi, the Kim's Convenience series stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Andrea Bang, Simu Liu, Andrew Phung, and Nicole Power. The show revolves around the Korean-Canadian Kim family as they operate a convenience store in Toronto. The members of the family are parents "Appa" (Lee) and "Umma" (Yoon), daughter Janet (Bang), and son Jung (Liu). Other characters include Jung's friend and co-worker Kimchee (Phung) and Jung's manager and love interest, Shannon (Power).
The...
Based on a play of the same name by Ins Choi, the Kim's Convenience series stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Andrea Bang, Simu Liu, Andrew Phung, and Nicole Power. The show revolves around the Korean-Canadian Kim family as they operate a convenience store in Toronto. The members of the family are parents "Appa" (Lee) and "Umma" (Yoon), daughter Janet (Bang), and son Jung (Liu). Other characters include Jung's friend and co-worker Kimchee (Phung) and Jung's manager and love interest, Shannon (Power).
The...
- 3/9/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Refresh for updates: Kim’s Convenience has closed up shop. On Monday producers of the Canadian sitcom announced that the Korean family comedy will end with its upcoming fifth season.
“At the end of production of Season 5, our two co-creators confirmed they were moving on to other projects. Given their departure from the series, we have come to the difficult conclusion that we cannot deliver another season of the same heart and quality that has made the show so special,” producers said in a statement shared to the Kim’s Convenience Twitter account.
Kim’s Convenience, co-created by Ins Choi and Kevin White, was initially slated to run through a sixth season. The series, which as been praised for its depiction of a Korean-Canadian family, airs on Netflix in the U.S. in many countries around the world. Season five will end on CBC in Canada on April 13.
As news about the cancellation broke,...
“At the end of production of Season 5, our two co-creators confirmed they were moving on to other projects. Given their departure from the series, we have come to the difficult conclusion that we cannot deliver another season of the same heart and quality that has made the show so special,” producers said in a statement shared to the Kim’s Convenience Twitter account.
Kim’s Convenience, co-created by Ins Choi and Kevin White, was initially slated to run through a sixth season. The series, which as been praised for its depiction of a Korean-Canadian family, airs on Netflix in the U.S. in many countries around the world. Season five will end on CBC in Canada on April 13.
As news about the cancellation broke,...
- 3/8/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
“Kim’s Convenience” will end with its currently airing fifth season, the show’s producers announced on Monday.
“Authenticity of storytelling is at the center of the success of ‘Kim’s Convenience.’ At the end of production on Season 5, our two co-creators confirmed they were moving on to other projects. Given their departure from the series, we have come to the difficult conclusion that we cannot deliver another season of the same heart and quality that has made the show so special,” read a statement shared on the show’s social media accounts.
The Canadian family comedy, co-created by Ins Choi and Kevin White, debuted its fifth season on CBC back in January. An adaptation of Choi’s play about a Korean-owned convenience store in Toronto, the comedy stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Andrea Bang, Simu Liu, Andrew Phung and Nicole Power.
Liu, who is set to star in Marvel’s...
“Authenticity of storytelling is at the center of the success of ‘Kim’s Convenience.’ At the end of production on Season 5, our two co-creators confirmed they were moving on to other projects. Given their departure from the series, we have come to the difficult conclusion that we cannot deliver another season of the same heart and quality that has made the show so special,” read a statement shared on the show’s social media accounts.
The Canadian family comedy, co-created by Ins Choi and Kevin White, debuted its fifth season on CBC back in January. An adaptation of Choi’s play about a Korean-owned convenience store in Toronto, the comedy stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Andrea Bang, Simu Liu, Andrew Phung and Nicole Power.
Liu, who is set to star in Marvel’s...
- 3/8/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Kim’s Convenience, the Canadian sitcom that airs on Netflix in the U.S. and in many countries around the world, is ending with its upcoming fifth season.
The show, which has been praised for its depiction of a Korean Canadian family, had been renewed through season six but co-creators Ins Choi and Kevin White decided to move on and it will now end with season five.
The season will end on CBC in Canada on April 13.
The show follows the Kim family, who run a convenience store in the Moss Park neighborhood of Toronto. It stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon as the parents and kids played by Andrea Bang and Simu Liu, who is set to lead the cast of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings movie.
Kim’s Convenience, which is based on Choi’s 2011 play, premiered in 2016 and is produced by Ivan Fecan,...
The show, which has been praised for its depiction of a Korean Canadian family, had been renewed through season six but co-creators Ins Choi and Kevin White decided to move on and it will now end with season five.
The season will end on CBC in Canada on April 13.
The show follows the Kim family, who run a convenience store in the Moss Park neighborhood of Toronto. It stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon as the parents and kids played by Andrea Bang and Simu Liu, who is set to lead the cast of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings movie.
Kim’s Convenience, which is based on Choi’s 2011 play, premiered in 2016 and is produced by Ivan Fecan,...
- 3/8/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The Netflix/CBC sitcom Kim’s Convenience, which broke ground in Canada as the country’s first comedy led by an Asian cast, is to end after its fifth season.
Launched on the CBC in fall 2016, Kim’s Convenience, set around a Korean-Canadian family running a corner shop in Toronto, streams on Netflix and on cable and video-on-demand platforms internationally. The comedy’s finale is set for April 13 on the CBC after the series’ co-creators Ins Choi and Kevin White confirmed at the end of production for the fifth season that they wanted to move onto other projects.
“Given their departure ...
Launched on the CBC in fall 2016, Kim’s Convenience, set around a Korean-Canadian family running a corner shop in Toronto, streams on Netflix and on cable and video-on-demand platforms internationally. The comedy’s finale is set for April 13 on the CBC after the series’ co-creators Ins Choi and Kevin White confirmed at the end of production for the fifth season that they wanted to move onto other projects.
“Given their departure ...
The Netflix/CBC sitcom Kim’s Convenience, which broke ground in Canada as the country’s first comedy led by an Asian cast, is to end after its fifth season.
Launched on the CBC in fall 2016, Kim’s Convenience, set around a Korean-Canadian family running a corner shop in Toronto, streams on Netflix and on cable and video-on-demand platforms internationally. The comedy’s finale is set for April 13 on the CBC after the series’ co-creators Ins Choi and Kevin White confirmed at the end of production for the fifth season that they wanted to move onto other projects.
“Given their departure ...
Launched on the CBC in fall 2016, Kim’s Convenience, set around a Korean-Canadian family running a corner shop in Toronto, streams on Netflix and on cable and video-on-demand platforms internationally. The comedy’s finale is set for April 13 on the CBC after the series’ co-creators Ins Choi and Kevin White confirmed at the end of production for the fifth season that they wanted to move onto other projects.
“Given their departure ...
Exclusive: The casts of the groundbreaking series Fresh Off The Boat and Kim’s Convenience are uniting for a one-night only special event which will feature the cast members from both shows doing live online table reads of the pilots of their respective shows, in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. The virtual event presented in partnership with Seed&Spark is set for May 30 at 6pm Pt/9pm Et and will raise funds for Asian non-profit arts organizations in the U.S. and Canada.
Fresh Off the Boat cast members Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler and Ian Chen will reunite for the table read while Kim’s Convenience stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Simu Liu, Andrea Bang, Andrew Phung and Nicole Power will be digitally present for the event.
The table-reads are free and open to the public. The evening will kick off with Kim’s Convenience...
Fresh Off the Boat cast members Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler and Ian Chen will reunite for the table read while Kim’s Convenience stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Simu Liu, Andrea Bang, Andrew Phung and Nicole Power will be digitally present for the event.
The table-reads are free and open to the public. The evening will kick off with Kim’s Convenience...
- 5/26/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
It seems the recent exit of Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park from “Hawaii Five-0” has not been lost on “Kim’s Convenience” creator Ins Choi. The Korean-born playwright and actor dedicated a poem he wrote about the tribulations Asian actors face to the former “Hawaii Five-0” cast during a Soulpepper Theater Cabaret at New York’s […]...
- 7/9/2017
- by kmorawetz
- ET Canada
News about the departure of Hawaii Five-o co-stars Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park found its way to New York Saturday night. Korean-born playwright and actor Ins Choi scored bigtime with his play Kim’s Convenience, which had its debut at Toronto’s Soulpepper Theater and has gone on to vie with Schitt’s Creek as Canada’s most popular sitcom as it heads into its sophomore season. In residence this month at New York’s Signature Theatre Center, Soulpepper has been presenting Kim…...
- 7/9/2017
- Deadline TV
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Alias Grace
Mini Series
Halfire Entertainment
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Dir.: Mary Harron
Aug 15 - Nov 15/16
American Gods
TV Series
Fremantle / Starz Network
Exec. Prod.: Bryan Fuller,
Michael Green, Neil Gaiman
Dir.: David Slade & Various
Anon
Feature
Anon Film Prods. Canada Inc.
Prod.: Dan Bekerman
Dir.: Andrew Niccol
Jul 11 - Aug 26/16
Baroness Von Sketch Show
Season 2
TV Series
Bvss 2 Productions Ontario Inc. / Frantic Films
Prod.: Graham Ludlow, Jeff Peeler
Exec.Prod.: Jamie Brown, Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne, Jennifer Whalen
Dir.: Yael Staav
Sep 12 - Oct 28/16
Bruno & Boots II And III
TV Movie (2)
Aircraft Pictures
Prod.: Anthony Leo, Andrew Rosen
Dir.: Vivieno Caldinelli
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Alias Grace
Mini Series
Halfire Entertainment
Prod.: Sarah Polley, DJ Carson
Dir.: Mary Harron
Aug 15 - Nov 15/16
American Gods
TV Series
Fremantle / Starz Network
Exec. Prod.: Bryan Fuller,
Michael Green, Neil Gaiman
Dir.: David Slade & Various
Anon
Feature
Anon Film Prods. Canada Inc.
Prod.: Dan Bekerman
Dir.: Andrew Niccol
Jul 11 - Aug 26/16
Baroness Von Sketch Show
Season 2
TV Series
Bvss 2 Productions Ontario Inc. / Frantic Films
Prod.: Graham Ludlow, Jeff Peeler
Exec.Prod.: Jamie Brown, Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne, Jennifer Whalen
Dir.: Yael Staav
Sep 12 - Oct 28/16
Bruno & Boots II And III
TV Movie (2)
Aircraft Pictures
Prod.: Anthony Leo, Andrew Rosen
Dir.: Vivieno Caldinelli
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- 8/24/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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