The Hallmark Channel has faced criticism following the announcement of its new original romcom All’s Fair in Love and Mahjong, which features a majority white cast.
Set to premiere May 9, the movie stars Fiona Gubelmann, Paul Campbell, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, Tamera Mowry-Housley and Melissa Peterman, and follows a school nurse who turns her love of the Chinese tile-based game Mahjong into a new path, according to a logline. Invented in China in the mid-to-late 19th century, Mahjong was developed from older Chinese card and domino games and features 144 tiles, each marked with Chinese symbols representing currency, numbers and cultural values.
