PANELISTS:

James Gay-Rees

EP

Chris King

EP/Editor

James Rogan

Director

Danielle Peck

Series Producer/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“I mean, every major artist—male, female, group, individual—seems to almost a complete level deliver their masterworks that year.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Connie Orlando

EVP/Specials/Music Programming & Music Strategy

Jesse Collins

Founder and CEO of Jesse Collins Entertainment/EP

MODERATOR: Dade Hayes

“We didn’t want to just say, ‘Oh, we’ll do a George Floyd tribute and that will check that box.’” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Mike Africa Jr.

Subject/Original Song: "Fly Baby"

Mike Jackson

EP

Tommy Oliver

Director/Producer/
Editor/Director of Photography

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"You don’t give up just because time passed. You’re done when the job is done.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jean Tsien

Producer

Hao Wu

Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"That was the most heart-wrenching scene I’ve ever seen I think in my entire career.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Steven Garza

Subject

Amanda McBaine

Producer/Director

Jesse Moss

Producer/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"We went into the project with a question, which is can we find common ground in America?” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Amara Enyia

Series Subject

Steve James

Director/Producer/
Editor

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"I just think Chicago has always had much to say to the rest of the country, about the world we live in.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jane Cha Cutler

EP

R.J. Cutler

EP

Randy Wilkins

Director, Spike Lee episode

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"I think a really telling detail is that on almost all of these shots, the icon would say to us, ‘Oh my God, can I take these letters home?’” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Demi Lovato

Subject

Michael D. Ratner

EP/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"The healing that did inside of me was so profound and I’m so glad I had that opportunity to do that.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Derek DelGaudio

Writer/Creator/
Performer

Stephen Colbert

EP

Frank Oz

Director

MODERATOR: Dade Hayes

"All of these things he does onstage that amaze you are a gift to make you think differently about yourself and other people.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Amy Schumer

Producer

Alexander Hammer

EP/Director/Editor

MODERATOR: Diana Lodderhose

"I think [filming] was a defense mechanism that made me feel like I was in some sort of control since I had no control over my body.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Liz Day

Senior Story Editor

Mary Robertson

Showrunner/EP

Samantha Stark

Producer/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"It was really, really incredible to see people really ‘get’ what we were trying to show.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jonathan Chinn

EP

Rashidi Natara Harper

EP/Director

Malcolm Spellman

EP

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"The biggest thing we wanted to communicate was, ‘You guys think you know this music but you literally have no idea.’” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Marina Franklin

Stand-Up Comic

Jessica Kirson

Stand-Up Comic/EP

Andrea Nevins

Director/EP

MODERATOR: Amanda N’Duka

"Who better to spend time with and document than the very people who are always breaking boundaries?” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Ken Jeong

Host/EP

MODERATOR: Peter White

"There’s more features and more twists that we’re adding. We’ve really leaned in to the heart and soul [of the show].” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Smriti Mundhra

EP

Sima Taparia

Matchmaker

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"There hasn’t really been a show like this, particularly involving South Asian or Indian culture, so it was difficult.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Leiomy Maldonado

Judge

Jameela Jamil

EP/Judge

Dashaun Wesley

MC

Law Roach

Judge

MODERATOR: Peter White

“The best part about this is that we as a community have the opportunity to show the world what we’re made of.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Adi Barash

Director/Producer

Ruthie Shatz

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"We just realized that there is a whole world that is not being shown.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Sam Heughan

EP/Host

Graham McTavish

EP/Host

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

"We’re both passionate about Scotland, and wanted to showcase it to the world.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Nicole Byer

Host

MODERATOR: Amanda N’Duka

"When something’s funny, you can find humor and you can find positives.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Alex Stapleton

EP/Showrunner

Christine Vachon

EP

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"We really felt like ... it was our duty to do a deep dive and to really dig and to bring forward stories that have not really been told en masse.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Bobby Berk

Host

Karamo Brown

Host

Tan France

Host

Antoni Porowski

Host

Jonathan Van Ness

Host

MODERATOR: Dade Hayes

"After all these seasons, there’s this really natural flow. … We know each other so well, so we know whether to move forward or pull back.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Symone

RPDR Season 13 Finalist

Shea Couleé

RPDR All Stars 5 Winner

Jaida Essence Hall

RPDR Season 12 Winner

Jamal Sims

Choreographer

MODERATOR: Dino Ray Ramos

"I think something that has always been at the heart of RuPaul’s Drag Race has been seeing people overcome obstacles in adversity ....” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Inbal B. Lessner

Lead Editor/EP

Cecilia Peck

Director/EP

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"It’s really a mother-daughter story at the heart of it and what it took for Catherine to save India.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Scott Durrah

Master Cannabis Chef of Simply Pure Dispensary

Wanda James

Co-founder/COO of Simply Pure Dispensary

Erik Parker

Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"We busted our ass and built ourselves wealth and we had to fund ourselves.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Padma Lakshmi

Host/EP

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"I wanted to do a show to give people whom I have grown up with, whether they were Filipino, Mexican or whatever, the platform to speak for themselves.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Elise Doganieri

Co-Creator/EP

Bertram van Munster

Co-Creator/
EP/Director

MODERATOR: Peter White

"That was new and exciting and it really pushed the limits not only for the contestants but also for production.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Emer Harkin

EP, Bunim/Murray Productions

Aneesa Ferreira

Cast Member

Leroy Garrett

Cast Member

Julie Pizzi

President, Bunim/Murray Productions

MODERATOR: Amanda N’Duka

"Every infrastructure that we’ve set up and refined over 35 seasons had to be reviewed and it had to be tweaked.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Lora Moftah

Producer

Yoruba Richen

Producer/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"One of the challenges throughout was navigating the sense of trauma…this is just months after Breonna was killed.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

James Breen

Showrunner/EP

Ken Jeong

Panelist

Rosie Seitchik

EP

MODERATOR: Peter White

"This show has something for everybody. We keep having to elevate every season to outdo ourselves.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Heather B. Gardner

Cast Member

Jon Murray

Creator/EP, Bunim/Murray Productions

Kevin Powell

Cast Member

George Verschoor

EP, Bunim/Murray Productions

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

"What I’ve learned in this is that the story is never fully what you think it is, right in this second. You have to be open.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jeff Orlowski

Director

Larissa Rhodes

Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"They figured out how to reverse engineer each and every one of us.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Tom Beard

Director

Mike Gunton

EP

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"Suddenly, there’s no one on the streets anymore...so they can swim across and claim back what was theirs.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Alexandra Dean

Director

Paris Hilton

Subject

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"This is the first time in my life where I’ve ever been so vulnerable, open and honest.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Louise Keoghan

Co-Creator/EP

Phil Keoghan

Host/Co-Creator/EP

MODERATOR: Matt. Grobar

"This show is really a way to honor hardworking people, who see the calluses on their hands as a badge of honor.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

David France

Director/Producer/Writer

Alice Henty

Producer

Askold Kurov

Producer/Director of Photography

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"It’s the first time since Hitler that a government leader has declared a campaign to round up and eliminate the LGBTQ community.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Wendy Williams

Star/EP

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"I was very, very comfortable talking about stuff because I don’t lie, because then you have to remember your lies...” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Heidi Schreck

Writer/Performer/EP

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"My feelings about what we need to do to make this document more effective for all people in this country have evolved.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Rachel Brosnahan

EP/Eulogist

Bess Kalb

EP/Head Writer

Linda Mendoza

Director

Franchesca Ramsey

Writer

MODERATOR: Diana Lodderhose

"It had a real narrative and part of that narrative was the sisterhood, a comradery between women.” Read Story Here