<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56bbe8866e97c61a008b687d-1200-900/house-of-cards%20season%204.jpg" alt="house of cards season 4" data-mce-source="Netflix">Netflix</img></div></div></div>Washington, D.C. will be caught in the crosshairs of an Underwood war on the fourth season of Netflix's "House of Cards."In a new trailer for the hit political drama's return, Frank (Kevin Spacey) and Claire (Robin Wright) are on opposite sides and the capital is their battlefield. In an election year, the stakes are now higher than ever, and the biggest threat they face is contending with each other. How far will they go?"You have no idea what it means to have nothing," Frank's is heard saying. "You don't value what we have achieved. I have had to fight for everything my entire life."Then, Claire says, "I saw a future, our future.""We had a future until you started destroying it," Frank responds.New additions,&#xa0;Joel Kinnaman,&#xa0;Neve Campbell and&#xa0;Ellen Burstyn make appearances in this trailer and promise to make things complicated for Frank and Claire.Watch the trailer below:<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NTzycsqxYJ0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>Season four of "House of Cards" debuts March 4 on Netflix. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-original-netflix-shows-chelsea-handler-crown-fuller-house-2016-2016-1">All the new Netflix shows you'll be binge-watching this year</a></h3> <div> <div> <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="xjeXU2MDE6-EWlYj7ZbWC_9AZNq1Vr-u" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> <script> if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; } RunFunctions.push(function() { var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'xjeXU2MDE6-EWlYj7ZbWC_9AZNq1Vr-u',{ autoplay: 'false' }); }); </script> <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div> </div> <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script> </div>

It's Underwood versus Underwood in new 'House of Cards' trailer

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5592c51a6bb3f75b33169e90-1200-800/scream%20premiere.jpg" border="0" alt="scream premiere">MTVFrom left, John Karna, Willa Fitzgerald, and Bex Taylor-Klaus on MTV's "Scream."</img></div></div></div>MTV's "Scream" is just one of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/movies-being-made-into-tv-shows-2015-6?op=1#ixzz3eBTQ5Jn6">the dozens of movie adaptations</a>&#xa0;making its way to the small screen.For new, younger audiences, MTV's series may be the first experience with the franchise. Others may have grown up with the self-referential horror franchise. So, where does MTV's "Scream" sit on that spectrum?"First off, it completely honors the franchise and fans of the franchise will love this and I think it also will bring a whole new group of fans to it," former MTV programming president, founder of production studio&#xa0;DiGa, and an executive producer on the "Scream" series, Tony DiSanto, tells Business Insider."You don't have to have seen the films to jump right into this. It's almost like the Christopher Nolan sort of reboot of 'Scream.'"Making the "Scream" TV series has brought together several personal and career points for DiSanto: From working with one of the original producers of 1996's "Scream," Bob Weinstein, and returning to MTV with the project (where he also produces "Teen Wolf.")On MTV's "Scream," a viral video begins to cause havoc for the teenagers of Lakewood. Those escalate into a murder and secrets begin to become uncovered.Here are three things DiSanto told us to expect from the new "Scream" series:<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5592c70f6da811957337e6bb-1200-600/bella-thorne-scream-mtv-nina-patterson.jpg" border="0" alt="bella thorne scream mtv Nina Patterson">Nina Patterson/MTVBella Thorne will take a stab at Drew Barrymore's iconic "Scream" scene for the MTV series.</img></div></div></div>1.)&#xa0;This is a complete reboot.&#xa0; DiSanto continued, "It's starting over, but you'll recognize the DNA of the original storylines but it's not continuation. It's not characters that reference anything that's happened in the original franchise. It's a completely fresh start."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5592c85969bedd6159169e97-1200-600/scream-1996.jpg" border="0" alt="scream 1996">Dimension FilmsNeve Campbell stars in the original "Scream."</img></div></div></div>2.) A reboot doesn't mean we won't see some old friends. When we asked DiSanto if we'd get any cameos from the movies' stars, he didn't say no."I don't want to give too much away but I think it's safe to say that you'll see some surprises along the way," he teased.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5592c98e6da8110d0537e6ba-1200-600/scream-mask.jpg" border="0" alt="Scream Mask">MTVThe iconic "Scream" mask will return for the MTV series.</img></div></div></div>3.) The body count on Season 1 may not be as high as the movies. "Our goal of this was to have a cast of characters, a scenario, a world that we're living with them and not rebooting every season like Season 2 isn't 'Scream 2,' DiSanto explained. "You've got to be living with these people for a longer period of time. People can't just be cannon fodder. They need to be characters and people that you care about. 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'Scream' producer reveals 3 things to expect from MTV's new reboot

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Watch acting coach Scott Sedita review great, mediocre, and downright terrible <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-wilhelm-scream-same-sound-effect-hollywood-movies-2018-11">screams</a> from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-horror-movie-streaming-services-netflix-amazon-prime-shudder-2019-10">horror movies</a>, breaking down what the actors did right or wrong in their performances.</li><li>Sedita deconstructed some of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-highest-grossing-horror-movies-of-all-time-2012-10">genre's</a> most memorable screams, ranging from <a href="https://www.insider.com/best-so-bad-its-good-movies-2018-2">cult favorite</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.sg/worst-horror-movies-of-all-time-2019-10">B-movies</a> like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/17-box-office-bombs-that-went-on-to-become-cult-classics/Troll-2-1990/slideshow/52612768.cms">"Troll 2"</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-jack-harris-who-produced-horror-film-the-blob-dies-at-98-2017-3">"The Blob"</a> to bona fide <a href="https://www.insider.com/best-horror-movies-of-all-time-ranked-by-critics-2019-10">classics</a> like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-psycho-is-still-scary-after-all-these-years-2014-10">legendary</a> Hitchcock thriller <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/7852-psycho-shower-scene-2017-1">"Psycho"</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/afp-horror-film-legend-wes-craven-dies-at-76-2015-8">Wes Craven's</a> <keyword id="6358680" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Horror">horror</keyword> satire <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/classic-wes-craven-horror-movies-2015-8">"Scream."</a> </li><li>He discussed some common mistakes actors make when they scream on camera and how slasher-film <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/actors-who-got-their-start-in-horror-movies-2013-10">scream queens</a> like <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/neve-campbell-talks-scream-5-140519323.html">Neve Campbell</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/halloween-movie-review-2018-10">Jamie Lee Curtis</a> make their screams feel real and terrifying. </li></ul>Following is a transcript of the <keyword id="21654" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="video">video</keyword>.Scott Sedita: What's interesting about <keyword id="16377" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Drew-Barrymore">Drew Barrymore</keyword>'s performance is that each of the screams seem to be a little different. ...and that is a good scream.Hi, I'm Scott Sedita. I'm an acting coach here in Los Angeles and we're gonna be reviewing some horror films, specifically screams in horror films, what works and what doesn't work, so here we go.Arnold: Oh my God!Scott Sedita: This particular actor who's supposed to be looking at trolls eating something is not looking at anything, it's very clear.Arnold: They're eating her and they are going to eat me!Scott Sedita: Oh God, in his line, "And they're going to eat me!" He seems to have a question mark on it as if he's unsure if that's a truth.Arnold: Oh my God!Scott Sedita: As far as the scream here, it's coming from his throat, Which means that it's not a strong, instinctual scream that has a strong emotional aspect to it. If you're gonna scream, it has to come from something instinctive inside of you with a strong emotional base. And that just seemed to be something somebody said, "Action!" And they went "Ahh!"Arnold: There must be a logical reason for all this.Woman: Shut up!Casey Becker: Who's there? I'm calling the police.Scott Sedita: The telephone call, I'm outside, all of that play on horror films that "Scream" was doing. I think it works really well with Drew Barrymore. What's interesting about Drew Barrymore's performance is that each of the screams seem to be a little different. I don't know if that was necessarily planned, but she's a good actress, so she probably put a different intention behind each of those screams. For her not to want to see the actor who was on the other end of that phone call, she was in it. She wasn't just listening to an actor over there. She was in the whole moment. She was in the character, someone answering a phone.Casey Becker: Look, you've had your fun now, so I think, you just better leave or else...Man: Or else what?Scott Sedita: And that's why I think the screams worked so well for her, the realistic feeling of it.Scott Sedita: This is a really interesting scream, because it's mostly done, it's all in the water, and it's also, you really hardly can see her face.What's interesting about this is there's a symphony of a scream that's happening with the water. But if you look at it, I think some of those screams were added later, some of the screams were turned down turned up, made more intense, so I think the editor or the director had a lot to do with the actor's screams there, to give us that horror that needed to be in "Jaws"Her gurgling sounds are really well played here. You kind of feel like the shark bit her and the blood is rushing all over the place, and I think that's what Spielberg wanted, he wanted that feeling of kind of like crazy real screams.Fran: George? George!Scott Sedita: Okay, Candy Clarks's a good actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for "American Graffiti", not her best work here.-"The Blob" is a good old-fashioned horror film, and it's a remake of the original "Blob". So I'm not sure in some ways if they wanted it to feel kind of campy, but Candy Clark's performance here is a little campy.That B-movie screaming, and her scream seem to be coming from some odd place, I don't believe that that is happening in the moment to her, I believe she's just screaming because the director said, "Now scream, action!" But it is the feel of the movie of the remake of the "Blob", it is the feel of it, so I'll give Candy Clark a little pass for that particular role.Jennifer Love Hewitt is a really terrific actress. I think her screams are good as well. They seem to be coming from somewhere. They seem to be coming from the gut, from the core from the diaphragm and coming all the way up. There is a scream here though that is kind of wacky when her boyfriend reaches down his hand to hers and she lets out this weird scream.But I think all the other screams work really well. Especially the last scream when the guy gets up- that last scream- it was timed to really well number one - but that last scream, that just came right up, and that was strong. Jennifer Love Hewitt was actually a child actress and one of the things that she did as well was sing. She's trained as a good singer, so therefore as a good singer, you're trained to use your diaphragm. So the voice actually comes from some place, the core, the diaphragm, so when she lets the scream out, it seems natural and honest.The this, the old put the hand to the face scream. So that is because of the old time <keyword id="406" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Movies">movies</keyword>, ladies were not supposed to scream.Elizabeth: Yes, that's what frightens me.Scott Sedita: It wasn't lady-like to rip out a scream, they kinda had to make it more gentle. So it had to have a softer quality to it. And I think Mae Clarke put that softer quality to it, but for the time, that was a good scream. Also, there's a close up aspect, and a lot of these people came from silent movies, remember, this was the '30s movies so 10 years prior to this there were basically silent movies.Man: Elizabeth!Scott Sedita: That was the style of the piece. The whole idea that a lady-like woman like Mae Clarke who's on her wedding day, all in white, turning around and seeing the greatest monster on film, Frankenstein right there, the whole idea of the damsel in distress is mocked in this time.Elizabeth: Are you sure?Scott Sedita: But during that style, she was great.Elizabeth: I love you so.Edward: What is that, what is that, what is it? Oh no, not the bees, not the beesScott Sedita: Okay, so this is a really difficult scene to watch, and the reason it's really difficult scene to change watch is because the acting that Nicolas Cage is doing- No, no, I mean, he's getting hit by bees. I mean, that's like a nightmare. As the bees are being pumped into his face and he's being stung, he's like, "Oh my God, "what's happening to me?" It's very reminiscent of the old movies back in the '30s of the horror films, and maybe that's what he was going for, I'm not sure.Edward: All over my eyes, my eyes!Scott Sedita: The whole idea of bees is so horrific that we all could just feel and empathize and feel the horror of itEdward: Oh, no, not the bees!Scott Sedita: He probably would have been better to say nothing or just to have this inner scream or what's... Or just feel them coming so it's just like that kind of thing but instead he's like talking through it, "They're stinging me on the nose!"Edward: My eyes, my eyes!Scott Sedita: Interesting choice, that's why I'm gonna say. It's an interesting choice. It's one that I don't necessarily get, but he's a terrific actor. I like Nicolas Cage, but that scene oh my God, oh!Edward: This is murder, murder! You'll all be guilty!Scott Sedita: And that, is a good scream. This is almost a little like what I talked about with Spielberg in "Jaws", is that the director definitely had a hand in the editing as far as the screams go We had never seen anything like that when this film came out Alfred Hitchcock wanted to make something that was seemed very real, we did like a million takes of that shower scene She had to scream a million times. Actors if they scream too much can hurt their vocal cords and get nodes on their vocal cords. These actors who have to do take after take after take after take, have to use their training. Janet Lee in "Psycho" was trained as an actress on the lots of Warner Brothers. Janet Lee was probably classically trained so she knew how to be able to do thatHallie: So, where are you taking us anyway?Man: Don't ask, don't tell.Scott Sedita: After the first scream, they had to do another one, so they had the top the screams of Drew Barrymore and all the people in that film. "Scream 2" was supposed to be the self-aware slasher film, in the old bad B-movie horror films that we saw the screams are coming from from here that's not a real scream. Both these actors pull off the scream very naturally. As campy as their screams can be, the screams seem to be authentic to me. And it's constant. You imagine having to shoot this particular scene, with the smashing of the window, the scream. They have to over and over and over again, so they better be using the scream from down here and not the scream from up here. Both these actresses do a great job.Hallie:Oh God, is he dead?Sidney: Oh God, I think so.Scott Sedita: I'm Looking at a classic horror scene. Is it over the top? Is she over the top? Yeah, she is.Wendy: No, no, no! Jack, please!Scott Sedita: Shelley Duvall's performance is kind of controversial. Some people think it's okay and some people think it's great. There's a lot of stuff going on the face, the bug eyes, the whole- it was really a little over the top, and I think a lot of this was Shelley Duvall didn't know what was going down. I think the director wanted everyone to feel the horror of what was happening, so when she saw the axe, she was definitely kind of being in the moment. Jack Nicholson was coming through that door. But I think it worked with the film. You watch it too closely, and you try to analyze the screams on it and you might be picking up stuff that might not be as truthful or you might be picking stuff up that there must have been a better take, but at the same time there's just one take going on there as the blades are coming through, the axe are coming through the door, she goes ah!. But it's a classic scene, it's a classic horror movie.Jack: Here's Johnny.Scott Sedita: <keyword id="21891" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jamie-Lee-Curtis">Jamie Lee Curtis</keyword> in "<keyword id="600" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Halloween">Halloween</keyword>" classic and everybody knows that Jamie Lee Curtis's mother is Janet Lee from "Psycho", so screams run in their family. Obviously it became a huge franchise, a billion dollar franchise, but I think when it first was made, it was made on a short timeframe, and it was Jamie Lee Curtis's, first movie performance. This particular scream and what's going on here seems to be a little guerilla filmmaking. It's improvisational.Laurie: Help! Somebody help me please! Somebody help!Scott Sedita: When she runs out of the house and she goes, "Oh my God, oh my God." I don't necessarily feel like it's coming from anywhere. I think that they just shot the first couple of takes, I don't think there was a lot of takes going on here. It's kind of improvisational. Let's just, go, go, take and go, keep going, go! I don't know! Oh my God, what's happening here?I think it was also how the film was directed. This is a whole new generation of horror films, so there was a kind of filming process, the kind of look of a film in the '70s in the late '70s. They wanted it real, they wanted it conversational, they didn't want it actor-y, and I think that's what Jamie Lee Curtis did in this film. But I will say that if you've seen the newest "Halloween", with Jamie Lee Curtis, she is great, her screens are great, they're centered. I'm sure she looks back at that first film and goes "Oh, wow, is that how I screamed?"Paige: Blake?Scott Sedita: It seems like the actress has a hard time reaching down and finding that truth to the scream, especially in a moment when you say "Action," and all of a sudden she has to let out of scream. I don't think she's necessarily prepared or trained to be able to be instinctive in that way. If it's true that Paris Hilton asked the crew to scream with her because she was "scream shy", that's because screaming is being vulnerable. In order to scream you have to really be vulnerable. I don't think she wanted to be vulnerable. For me, Paris Hilton is a celebrity, she knows how to be Paris Hilton. Going into a character is a whole 'nother story, that's being an actor. So the idea that she might of wanted the crew to scream with her is really a way because she felt uncomfortable expressing this horror that she's supposed to be feeling, which is understandable.Vera Farmiga, first of all is a brilliant actress. And the screams that she does in "The Conjuring" are almost operatic. Those screams are actually something that she's rehearsed and practiced as if a singer had to sing big belty songs out loud. They have to know how to be trained.Especially when she wakes up, and she has to do that incredible scream, that takes a lot of energy. She does this hysterical scream, which is so difficult to do. Not only is it so difficult because it's long and extended, but it's because she had to do it over and over and over again. Matter of fact, months after filming wrapped, she had swollen lymph nodes. Now even though she's classically trained, and even though I'm sure she understood that her voice is important to her, that and she tried to do the best diaphragm breath scream, it's really hard to do take after take and not get an injury like that. You do too much of something it doesn't really matter. Those screams are some of the best film screams you will ever see. Actors should watch Vera Farmiga in "<keyword id="3058650" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="The-Conjuring-2">The Conjuring 2</keyword>" to see how to do that type of scream waking up from a horrible nightmare scream.

Professional acting coach reviews iconic screams in horror movies

<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/undividing"><img src="https://static.businessinsider.com/image/5956bcd0a3630f2c008b6f2c-800/bi-graphicsundividing america800x100post.png" alt="BI Graphics_Undividing America_800x100_Post" /></a><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5553a27c6da811cf72e8a313-827/the-middle-abc-returning-shows.png" alt="the middle abc returning shows " />ABC/Michael AnsellABC's "The Middle" is enjoying a moment in the spotlight after the 2016 election.For eight seasons, ABC has aired a comedy called "The Middle." It has never been a mega hit, but it has earned steady ratings. Critics like it, but it hasn't generated the think pieces and day-after recaps popular among highbrow cable shows.Then Donald Trump became president."It was sort of funny how all of a sudden the phone started ringing," DeAnn Heline, the cocreator of ABC comedy "The Middle," told Business Insider of the newfound interest in the show by the media.In today's television "The Middle" is an anomaly. It follows a lower-middle-class family that lives paycheck-to-paycheck and somehow makes it work. They live in Indiana, refer to themselves as "Hoosiers," and use humor to deflect some of the hard feelings about the tough times."People realized, 'Hey, wait, you guys are a Midwest show about blue-collar people,' and all of a sudden we felt like the show kind of had a new attention brought to it," Heline said.While the show once flew under the media radar, it started getting press.The Los Angeles Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-hollywood-values-updates-the-middle-and-tv-s-complicated-1483651632-htmlstory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">published a feature</a> about the show's "rare" emphasis on the anxiety of working-class Americans. And ABC's programming president <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/abc-changing-programming-philosophy-due-to-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">referred to "The Middle"</a> as an example of how well the network was featuring the working class in its comedies, while saying she'd like to do the same with its drama offerings.<h2>40 million viewers</h2><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/582f70a3e02ba75c658b45b8-1200/all-in-the-family-05.jpg" alt="all in the family" />CBS"All in the Family" was famous for portraying an average family, differing opinions, and conversation around controversial issues.A half-century ago, a show like "The Middle" might have driven the national conversation. In the 1970s, programs like "Maude," "The Jeffersons," and "All in the Family" featured diverse characters from across the country and attracted wide audiences. Before cable and the internet, there weren't many entertainment options."We had 30 and 40 million viewers, and if we were encouraging conversations about issues, we had that many more people encouraged to converse, to think about these issues," producer Norman Lear told Business Insider. In the 1970s, Lear produced those shows and many other network hits. "Right now, it's far more fractured and far fewer people are being influenced or consciences raised, because there's just so many places for drama and entertainment."Lear's shows' depictions of people on the fringes, character types that rarely were the focus of TV shows then and now, had a huge influence on the national conversation.Lear's groundbreaking "All in the Family" followed family man Archie Bunker whose conservative and bigoted views were artfully portrayed by actor Carroll O'Connor. The show dealt with topics ranging from homosexuality to women's rights and war. The next day, viewers would discuss the issues with their families, friends, and coworkers. Few, if any, shows today have that kind of effect."The Middle" tackles issues, too, but it's not often the subject at the office watercooler."Gone are the days where we all sat down and watched the same TV show, so that people would come away maybe feeling or thinking the same thing," Heline said.<h2>Different people, different shows</h2>Last year, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/favorite-tv-shows-of-democrats-and-republicans-2016-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a study from E-Score Programs</a> - a monthly tracking survey that measures awareness, viewing, and perceptions of American television shows - revealed how tough it is to bring Americans together around TV now.The study showed the top programs viewed by Republicans and Democrats. It found that Republicans leaned toward shows that are "family-friendly, funny, plot-driven, or have storylines that involve 'good versus evil.'"Democrats like shows that are "sexy, edgy, emotionally involving, ethnically diverse, or have strong characters." Among the top 10 shows for each group, there were only three shows that crossed party lines: The CW's "Supernatural," CBS' "The Big Bang Theory," and AMC's "The Walking Dead."There's also a big divide along racial lines. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2017/06/27/whos-watching-what-tv-shows-ranked-racial-and-ethnic-groups/103199848" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">USA Today</a> analyzed Nielsen ratings and found that among the lists of the five-most-watched programs for whites, blacks, Asians, and Latino viewers, not one TV program appeared in all lists. Only two shows, AMC 's "The Walking Dead" and NBC's "This Is Us," were able to break the top five for three of those groups.There are simply more choices for more niche groups. Hundreds of channels and several digital networks have amounted to 454 scripted TV shows in 2016, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fx-john-landgraf-apple-peak-tv-2017-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a record</a> and another reason why TV's ability to unite Americans has waned."We're talking about back then only four networks, you know, the three major networks and then Fox came along," Lear said of his shows' heyday compared. "And now we're talking about dozens upon dozens of streaming [platforms] and networks ... you've got now a couple of hundred opportunities."<h2>Is it still possible to unite Americans through TV?</h2>Neve Campbell, one of the actresses on Netflix's political drama "House of Cards," which stars Kevin Spacey as a man who lied, stole, and killed to become president, feels that it's not up to TV to heal a divided nation."In the end, it's fiction. It's storytelling," Campbell told Business Insider. "If you want things to change in a divided country, you'll probably have to turn off the TV and pick up the phone and call someone on the other team and try to have a conversation."<img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/554fd11e6bb3f7357ff07a59-1200/nbc superstore new shows 2015.jpg" alt="NBC Superstore new shows 2015" />Trae Patton/NBCBut Justin Spitzer - the creator of NBC comedy "Superstore," which follows a diverse group of employees at a big-box retail store - has a different take."In a utopia where everybody is looking for a way to learn about each other and bond, then that would be great. I just think realistically that doesn't happen," Spitzer said."What people want to do is come home from work after a long day, turn on the TV, relax, and laugh a little," he said. "So in that respect, I think TV probably is one of the most effective tools. You're getting a very specific type of person who is learning, who probably is already fairly open in their perspectives about things and saying, 'I want to go out and learn about a community that I don't know.'"Lear believes that animated shows, such as Comedy Central's "South Park" and Fox's "Family Guy," are doing a good job of attracting people from different backgrounds and getting them to discuss issues.Meanwhile, Heline of "The Middle" is positive that TV is making strides to portray different kinds of lives and making people more aware of issues affecting others from different backgrounds."I do believe that the networks are doing better at portraying different points of view," she said. "It's not like every show now should be about blue-collar people in the Midwest like my show. The next show should be something else, you know, so I think they're doing a better job of it for sure." <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/6-things-you-didnt-know-about-double-dare-food-network-host-marc-summers-ocd-nickelodeon-2017-7">6 things you didn't know about 'Double Dare' host and Food Network star Marc Summers</a></h3> Please enable Javascript to watch this video

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