How election-themed series 'Kal Penn Approves This Message' avoids the 24-hour news cycle:
is taking a nonpartisan stance in its attempt to get young viewers engaged in the political process. But that doesn't mean it ignores basic facts.
Penn hosts the six-week series, which premiered Sept. 22 — National Voter Registration Day — and explores issues relevant to Millennial and Gen Z voters, which encouraging them to cast a vote in November's election. It's part of a larger voter turnout campaign at the cable network with the tagline"Kick 2020 in the Ballots. FF'ing Vote.
"We thought, well, what if we take the best of what we love about this space, which is humor, and then combine it with something like, which is very wholesome and very unifying," Penn said,"and present that as a show that's packaged to a younger audience where you can talk about one specific issue over the course of the arc of the episode, you have a guest who knows a lot about that particular issue, and then you leave the audience with a way that they can get involved in get...
"The design of our show is to not respond to the 24-hour news cycle, so in our case it doesn't really matter how fast or slow something's happening because we're taking a different approach to specific issues," Penn said.
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