Arthur Chu, Jennifer Lai, and Phil Yu discuss the Fresh Off the Boat premiere.

A scary man has been prowling the grade-school campus, handing out drug-laced stickers to little children. The principal, flanked by police, shows a group of parents a sketch of the suspect. Murmurs are heard. Then, quickly, Jessica Huang springs up

Based loosely on chef Eddie Huang's memoir of the same name, Fresh Off the Boat is set in the mid-1990s and follows 11-year-old Eddie and his Taiwanese family of five—including "Tiger Mom" Jessica and American Dreamer dad Louis—as they move from 

Image Credit: Jason Merritt, MJ Kim/Getty Images Fresh Off the Boat has tapped 30 Rock alum Judah Friedlander and former NBA star Scottie Pippen for guest-starring roles, EW has learned exclusively.

In a season when ABC has already found success being both funny and diverse with its programming — Black-ish in particular — it strikes again with Fresh Off the Boat, one of the better freshman broadcast sitcoms in a while.

This story contains language that may be offensive. When they built a sitcom around a hip-hop-loving child of Taiwanese immigrants in Orlando, the producers of Fresh Off the Boat probably knew they would face some uncomfortable questions about culture