{"id":99686,"date":"2025-08-27T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99686\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T01:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:39:07","slug":"the-rehearsal-may-have-helped-pilots-mental-health-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99686\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Rehearsal\u2019 May Have Helped Pilot\u2019s Mental Health After All"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNathan Fielder<\/a> made headlines in June when he called the Federal Aviation Administration \u201cdumb\u201d<\/a> for its pushback on claims made in the second season of HBO<\/a>\u2019s The Rehearsal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe second season of the show focuses on airline safety, specifically related to communication between pilots and co-pilots with Fielder highlighting the issue in a series of rehearsed situations, including the comedian flying a Boeing 737 passenger jet in the finale.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview on CNN\u2019s The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown after the show ended, he criticized the F.A.A.\u2019s training standards, claiming that they don\u2019t really prepare pilots and co-pilots to say what\u2019s on their mind if they are concerned about something happening in the cockpit.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the series, Fielder was hoping to be invited to speak about the issue in front of Congress in order to raise awareness.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the show ended, a bill is now moving forward, a move that Fielder said may have been influenced by the HBO series.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn June, the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure\u00a0voted to approve the Mental Health in Aviation Act, bipartisan legislation that would require the FAA to encourage pilots to disclose mental health conditions, something they are not currently doing so as to not lose their jobs. The bill would allocate $13.7M per year to recruit professionals including psychiatrists.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking on a Deadline-moderated panel at the Writers Guild Foundation\u2019s Sublime Primetime event last week, Fielder said that he still hasn\u2019t been invited to speak in front of Congress.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut actually, after the show aired, John [Goglia, former National Transportation Safety Board member] texted me and said that a bill that\u2019s been stuck in the House for years about pilot mental health finally went through and was passed, and went to the Senate, and he was talking to the young staffers, and he said, \u2018I think the show pushed them to [do it]\u2019. I guess the young people make all the decisions. He\u2019s like, \u2018That\u2019s how it works\u2019. Anyway, I don\u2019t know if it did anything, but it was nice to hear. That\u2019s the most recent update,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tFielder was a fan of Canadian series Mayday and actually started taking flying lessons before even pitching the idea it to HBO.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI noticed this thing that would happen in [Mayday] a lot. They reenact plane crashes and talk about why they happened. I started to notice this thing that was always happening, where the co-pilot would know what the issue was, but would be too afraid to or intimidated to speak up to the captain or take over the controls. For like 10 years, I was just telling people this at parties. Then when I was thinking about the second season, I had that idea, and I thought that would be a really good,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tFielder was on the panel alongside writers Eric Notarnicola, Carrie Kemper and Adam Locke-Norton. Exec producers include Fielder, Notarnicola, Dave Paige, and Christie Smith and Dan McManus. Kemper is a co-exec producer alongside Kris Eber and Locke-Norton is a producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Rehearsal is currently nominated for a number of Emmys this year including Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series, Outstanding Picture Editing For A Single Camera Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Fielder made headlines in June when he called the Federal Aviation Administration \u201cdumb\u201d for its pushback on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,5862,84,393,394,57818,57819],"class_list":{"0":"post-99686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-hbo","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth","14":"tag-nathan-fielder","15":"tag-the-rehearsal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}