Great News creator: It’s a “weird coincidence” Tina Fey’s sexual harassment episode coincided with Harvey Weinstein scandal

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Tracey Wigfield says “it honestly wasn’t until a day or two after the news came out that I realized it would line up with the episode we had written and shot in August.” She says it’s also just so happened that this was the only episode Fey co-wrote of the three episodes she signed up for. Why did Great News tackle sexual harassment now? “Between when our last season aired and we started writing this one," she says, "so many powerful men had been exposed as workplace harassers/abusers, especially in the media. Since our show is set at a cable news network, we thought it was an appropriate subject for us to tackle.” ALSO: Great News really outdid itself with this episode.