Do not adjust your screen. It’s true, we are finally getting some good TV news in 2020! After adding yet another Emmy to its collection on Sunday with the latest win by guest actor Ron Cephas Jones, NBC has just announced that
This Is Us will no longer be premiering on its
delayed date of November 10 but is actually being moved up two weeks to a revised date of October 27! Yes, this is still much later than the series would have premiered in non-COVID times, but let’s take the wins where we can.The two-hour season premiere that was originally scheduled for November will now air at the end of October on NBC (CTV has yet to confirm the premiere date). Typically,
This Is Us would be returning with new time-hopping episodes at the end of September, but considering the worldwide shutdown of TV and film sets that happened in March, it’s pretty impressive that the highly rated, award-winning show is coming back only a month late. The only thing more complicated than following the Pearson family storylines is filming the episodes really, really quickly in the middle of a pandemic. Way to go, big three!According to creator Dan Fogelman, the writers of
This Is Us have been working remotely for months and have been incorporating current events into this season's storyline. That means new episodes will include references to COVID-19 and the recent global mobilization of the Black Lives Matter movement. Speaking to
EW, Fogelman said that these new additions will enrich the current day storyline but will not affect the show's ending, which has been planned for years."We have a carefully crafted plan through six seasons of the television show that hundreds of people have now devoted for four-plus years of their lives executing," said Fogelman. "And we're going to execute that plan, no matter what's happening in the world. What's happening in the world may shift the details of how things happen, but the big moves continue to happen — and actually potentially heighten and make better the television show then maybe some of our initial plans, because that's our job. Here are the new rules we've been given. How do we continue to try and top ourselves and make things even better than they were?"[video_embed id='2042743']Related: Top 5 things you need to know about 'This Is Us' Season 5[/video_embed]
This Is Us is not the only show that will be incorporating storylines about the ongoing global pandemic and protests over racial injustices currently taking place in North America and beyond.
Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff has confirmed that the medical drama will address COVID-19 when new episodes return with a two-hour premiere on Thursday, November 12, following the one-hour premiere of
Station 19. “We’re going to address this pandemic for sure,”
Vernoff told EW in July. “There’s no way to be a long-running medical show and not do the medical story of our lifetimes.”When
This Is Us returns, fans will be expecting to get some answers about the
several cliffhangers they were left with at the end of season four.
This Is Us typically premieres with an episode about the big three’s birthday, including Randall (Sterling K. Brown), Kevin (Justin Hartley) and Kate (Chrissy Metz). In season four, viewers got an early sneak peek at the celebrations and saw that Randall and Kevin are no longer speaking. The assumption of course is that the brothers had a falling out over mom Rebecca’s (Mandy Moore) medical treatments, but after four seasons we know to never make assumptions with
This Is Us. As soon as one mystery is solved, three more pop up. Come on, October 27!Catch the two-hour season premiere of
This Is Us on Tuesday, October 27 at 9 p.m. ET on CTV.[video_embed id='5828400024001']Before you go: Chrissy Metz reveals the most famous person in her phone[/video_embed]
