We live in a world where the wellness industry is worth trillions of dollars and we’re distracted by crystals, face masks, and crystal face masks. But no amount of serums or essential oils can cover up these unacceptable, harsh realities:
• About 1.5 billion women did not have access to preventative care in 2021
• Three in 10 (30%) women in 2020 — or more than 750 million worldwide — report experiencing physical pain during a lot of the previous day.
Sam and Soledad are on a mission to find the most innovative, effective ways to improve women’s healthcare and spread them as far and wide as instagram posts on intermittent fasting. Each episode builds on the last as they dive deep into the root causes, highlight communities around the globe fighting for better care, and work with advocates and scientists to develop creative solutions.
We’ll kick off the series with emotional, authentic, funny stories from unapologetic women around the world who, despite their differing circumstances, all share the same health issue. Like high blood pressure, migraines, or that thing that happens when you turn 35 and your knees hurt whenever you sneeze. They'll galvanize Sam and Soledad to go out on their journey.
As they make their way through the medical and political community, there will be highs, lows, and some truly absurd twists.
Sam and Soledad will pay special attention to how these issues affect marginalized groups people of color and non-binary folks — who are traditionally overlooked by the medical community.
Since Sam and Soledad are not doctors (they’ve never even played one on TV), they’ll track down experts on the frontlines who have the fix, or are currently working on one, and work with their new think tank to create a forward-moving plan.
Together, they’ll test ridiculous theories, help people find the real answers, and take people who are peddling false promises to task. All along the way, they'll work with Apple and our team to build something that actually helps women. For real!
They’ll end the season with a global symposium of patients, researchers, and doctors to present their findings and move forward with bold new ideas and next steps. And we will launch the app, the VR hospital, the big, splashy, very real thing that we’ve built with Apple to help SAVE WOMEN’S LIVES.
Mixing Soledad’s fact-driven journalism style with the humorous field pieces of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, this series is giving the misinformation and dry talking points swirling around women’s healthcare a much-needed makeover. With an accessible, inviting and optimistic tone, this show thinks BIG. With the help of Apple, we go beyond reporting and into a
Comedian and host Samantha Bee received global recognition from the success of her weekly late-night comedy series, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, which was nominated for 70 awards and ran for seven seasons on TBS. Bee has personally been nominated for 18 Emmy awards, winning for both writing and executive producing the longest running satirical late-night show hosted by a woman.
In 2003, Bee joined Comedy Central's The Daily Show's "Best F#@king News Team." Bee departed The Daily Show in 2015 and currently holds the title for being the longest-serving regular Daily Show correspondent of all time. Bee is the author of the essay collection I Know I Am, But What Are You? and has been featured in TIME 100: The Most In f luential People. Bee and her husband Jason Jones also co-created the half-hour comedy series, The Detour, which ran for four seasons on TBS. In 2018, Bee announced her new production company, Swimsuit Competition, co-founded with Full Frontal producer Kristen Everman. Swimsuit Competition makes funny, compelling, and inclusive pageants narrative and documentary television.
Soledad O’Brien Productions is a multi-platform media production and distribution company dedicated to uncovering stories on the divisive issues of race, class, wealth, poverty, and opportunity through personal narratives.
SO’B Productions was founded by Soledad O’Brien, an award-winning journalist, documentarian, news anchor, and producer. Soledad has spent her career championing the stories of marginalized communities, and has been the recipient of three Emmy awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, and the Alfred I. DuPont Award for her reporting work.
She is a thought leader, with over 1.3 million Twitter followers, who has a national impact through her speeches, numerous documentaries, and her presence on the op-ed pages of platforms like the New York Times and Huf f ington Post. She has anchored shows on CNN, MSNBC, and NBC, and reported for Fox, A&E, Oxygen, Nat Geo, the PBS NewsHour, WebMD, and Al Jazeera America, among others.
Keisha Zollar is a comedian, showrunner, producer and writer. She’s a supervising producer on the new limited Hulu series Mike about the infamous Mike Tyson. She recently f inished working on Young Love the adaptation of the Oscar short Hair Love . She's also worked on two seasons of the Spitting Image reboot for BritBox, the animated series Agent King on Net f lix, and was the co-EP on the NBC primetime special Sketchy Times with Lilly Singh.
In addition, she's one of the co-creators and stars of Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show. And her voice acting talents can be heard in the second season of Stephen Colbert Presents: Tooning Out The News as Susan Shephard.
Sasha Stewart is a Writers Guild Award-nominated writer, producer, and creator who loves work that creates joy, has a positive impact, and gives her an excuse to eat craft services. TV credits include: Amend: The Fight For America (Net f lix), The Fix (Net f lix), The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (Comedy Central), and the 2016 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
She participated in the 2019 Comedy Think Tank at the Climate Story Lab, the 2020 Comedy Think Tank on Paid Family Leave, and the 2021 Stand Up for Climate Change Comedy Show. She contributes to the New Yorker, McSweeney's , and The Belladonna . She is the Head Writer for the YA political thriller Daughters of D.C. , and is a winner of the 2020 Yes and… Laughter Lab. Most recently, she wrote on an upcoming scripted FX dramedy.
