Cultural Diversity in Canadian Television: The Case of CBC's Kim's Convenience

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Kim's Convenience is the first Asian-led sitcom in Canadian broadcasting. This popular sitcom, lauded by both audiences and the television industry, joins the wave of minority-led production which started only recently in Canada, despite Canada's pride in multiculturalism as one of its national characteristics. Emerging within Canada's unique model of multiculturalism within a bilingual framework, Kim's Convenience, with a story about a third-language Korean Canadian immigrant family, offers a critical site to understand how cultural diversity is communicated in Canadian television today. This study conducts a thematic analysis of Seasons One and Two with a special focus on interactions across cultures characterized by social categories such as ethnicity/race, gender, class, language, and sexuality.

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Kim's Convenience is the first Asian-led sitcom in Canadian broadcasting which explores how cultural diversity is communicated in Canadian television. This popular sitcom, praised by both audiences and the television industry, joins the recent trend of minority-led productions in Canada.