Should you don’t chuckle, you’ll cry. That appears to be Samantha Bee and Soledad O’Brien’s tackle the dumpster hearth that’s U.S. girls’s healthcare. Bee and O’Brien are partnering on a comedic docuseries protecting all the pieces “from abortion rights and contraception to the wellness business which has preyed on the lack of understanding and care obtainable to girls,” Deadline studies.
Bee and O’Brien had been working collectively on a docuseries about girls’s well being by way of their respective Swimsuit Competitors and SOB Productions banners, with the plan that the challenge could be led on-screen by one other celebration. When Roe v. Wade fell, they determined to host it themselves.
A mixture of journalism and comedy, the untitled challenge might be launched to consumers quickly. Sasha Stewart (“The Nightly Present”) and Keisha Zollar (“Astronomy Membership”) have been tapped as writer-producers.
The docuseries will see its hosts “exit into the world to analyze, level out hypocrisies, and drive folks to contemplate beneficial options,” the supply particulars. Bee and O’Brien will “have a look at why U.S. girls are sicker, extra pressured, and die youthful in comparison with girls in different high-income international locations, why girls within the U.S usually tend to have points paying their medical payments, have increased charges of persistent sickness, and are among the many least more likely to report having a physician they see usually, akin to a major care doctor, and why American girls even have the very best charges of dying from avoidable causes in addition to a specific give attention to why Black girls are particularly susceptible to lethal being pregnant issues.”
The docuseries marks Bee’s first challenge since her long-running late night time present, “Full Frontal,” grew to become one of many many casualties of the Warner Bros.-Discovery merger. “This present is for anybody who’s ever casually talked about endometriosis at a brunch, after which wanted twelve extra hours of mimosas to deal with the following show-and-tell of illnesses,” mentioned Bee, who counts “The Day by day Present” and “Bob’s Burgers” amongst her different credit.
“To place it bluntly, girls’s well being is a shit present and it’s far previous time to shine a light-weight on how 51% of our nation is uncared for, neglected, and misled with regards to healthcare,” O’Brien added. “Within the wake of Roe being overturned, this present isn’t just related, it’s completely essential as a result of girls’s lives are on the road.” The journalist and anchor’s earlier doc work consists of “Black and Lacking” and “Black in America.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood
