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."Film reveals real-life struggles of an onscreen 'Dragon Lady' ." Typically, the characters portrayed are Asian American, although the actor or actress may sometimes be Canadian, British, or Australian.
List of television series