This Is Us creator: To return before Election, our cast and crew filmed on weekends and editors worked night and day

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This Is Us originally was supposed to return the week after the election, not the week before. “It was really important to me — and to us — to get these episodes on before the election, not because they are political but because I think they are difficult and they are hopeful, and we felt it was important to us to put them on TV now with no agenda other than that,” says creator Dan Fogelman. “But it also created intense rush.” ALSO: Mandy Moore revealed her pregnancy to Fogelman before "most" of her family.