Blood and Water, Chinese-Canadian crime drama, breaks TV barriers

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Interesting concept for a Canadian show.  As first-generation born/raised Chinese-Canadian, I'm glad that shows like this are being made so that visible minorities aren't seen as "the others" in a society.

The new Canadian TV crime drama Blood and Water is breaking down barriers by integrating Mandarin, Cantonese and English onscreen.

Filmed in Toronto and Vancouver, the series revolves around a young female police detective (Steph Song), who is fighting cancer and trying to solve the murder of a Vancouver billionaire's drug-addicted son.

What sets this show – airing in eight, 30-minute episodes – apart from other crime dramas is that most of the characters are Asian and the dialogue often switches seamlessly between Chinese dialects and English.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/blood-and-water-drama-1.3307472