America Ferrera is heading back in time…
NBC’s only returning comedy series, Superstore, which stars the 32-year-old Honduran American actress, will air an original episode following one night of the network’s 2016 Rio Games coverage.
With that plum lead-in, the episode is likely to snag a “giant audience,” but one that includes “a lot of new viewers who aren’t used to the show,” says executive producer Justin Spitzer.
Because the first season ended in a cliffhanger in which the staff of the superstore walked out, Spitzer said the Olympics episode will be a “bonus stand-alone episode.”
It will take place in the pre-walkout world of the show.
Only when the series returns on September 22 will it pick up where it left off in “real time” with the walkout, Spitzer explained.