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CBS has made a commitment to a comedy series co-created by "Crazy Rich Asians" author Kevin Kwan, Variety has learned.
The multi-camera comedy is titled "The Emperor of Malibu." It follows two very different families-one from Shanghai with new money and one from the East coast of the US with old money- that must learn to co-exist when their children get married.
Kwan will serve as a writer and executive producer along with David Sangalli. Michelle Nader, Christina Lee, and Danielle Stokdyk will also executive produce, with Warner Bros. Television production.
This marks the second TV project that Kwan and Sangalli have teamed to create. Variety previously reported that the duo is developing a drama at Amazon's set of Hong Kong's most influential and powerful family and business empire they control.
Kwan's international best-selling debut novel "Crazy Rich Asians", which has grossed over $ 232 million worldwide. His subsequent novels "China Rich Girlfriend," published in 2015, and "Rich People Problems" are both national and international bestsellers. "Rich People Problems" debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List on its release in 2017.
This is also the second Asian-centric comedy to be put into development this year. ABC is developing a single-camera comedy from "Rick and Morty" writer Jessica Gao about a first-generation Chinese-American woman who becomes wealthy grandmother's estate.
Kwan and Sangalli are re-enacted by ICM Partners and Lichter Grossman.
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