Tonight at 8 PM ET, Discovery Health will join other networks to simultaneously devote one hour of commercial-free primetime airtime to raise funds for the fight against cancer. An extraordinary line-up of actors, musicians, athletes and journalists have banded together for Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), an initiative aimed at raising funds to accelerate innovative cancer research bringing new therapies to patients quickly.
The special will be hosted Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer and Brian Williams, and will feature numerous celebrity cancer survivors, including Christina Applegate, Lance Armstrong, Fran Drescher, Elizabeth Edwards, Delta Goodrem, Michael C. Hall, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sharon Osbourne, Robin Roberts, Maura Tierney, Sofia Vergara, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Ethan Zohn.
Tonight’s broadcast will be dedicated to the 12 million U.S. cancer survivors and will explore how groundbreaking research can change the tide in the fight against the disease. One of the musical performances will be an all-star collaboration led by Stevie Wonder with Natasha Bedingfield, Queen Latifah, Martina McBride, Aaron Neville and Dave Stewart.
Tune in to DiscoveryHealth.com at 9 PM ET for an unprecedented, live after-party, and watch as some of the country’s most popular musicians continue the event with a fundraising jam session.