Dan Fogelman, creator of NBC’s hit drama This Is Us, says it was important that the network push the season 5 premiere up so audiences could see the Black Lies Matter and coronavirus themes he had “woven” into the show before the Election day.
While millions of Americans grapple with the serious issues facing this country ahead of Election Day, more Hollywood celebrities have decided that their contribution to civic engagement is taking off their clothes on social media to encourage voting.
Friends was revived Tuesday evening with an all-black cast for a Get Out The Vote campaign, with actors Ryan Michelle Bathe, Sterling K. Brown, Uzo Aduba, Aisha Hinds, Jeremy Pope, and Kendrick Sampson. The show was featured on Zoom Where It Happens, a weekly live table read series aimed at election education and getting out the vote ahead of the November election.
After advocating for the removal of a scene that featured registered sex offender Steven Wilder Striegel, actress Olivia Munn says individuals at Fox “chastised” her decision not to “keep it quiet.”
NBC’s This Is Us stars Sterling K. Brown and Mandy Moore and Oscar-winner Jane Fonda are among the more than 3,000 Hollywood notables to join the call for the liberal entertainment industry to put an end to its “gender pay gap,” and calling for equal pay for equal work in a letter to industry executives.
NBC’s award-winning, tear-jerking drama ‘This is Us’ is turning political for season three, according to reports.
