Martin Pazzani has been named president/CEO of Elias Arts, the bicoastal music/sound and brand identity company. He formerly served as senior VP/chief marketing officer at Bally Total Fitness, Chicago. Prior to that he was senior VP, worldwide director of The Chess Team at Foote, Cone & Belding, New York, where he led a global network of creative business and marketing strategists in uncovering new consumer insights and applying them to marketing challenges while working with major clients on six continents. Earlier Pazzani was managing director of New York-based marketing and advertising agency RocketScience. In his new role, he plans to split his time between Elias’ offices in New York and Santa Monica….Having spent the past three years dividing his time between Toronto-based Steam Films and Vapor Music Group, Roger Harris now turns his full attention to his role as president/creative director at Vapor. (Steam continues under the aegis of Jennifer Sykes and Dan Ford.) Harris’ experience spans music houses (a founder of Canada’s Harris Cole Wilde and Jungle Music) and ad agencies (director of broadcast for BBDO Toronto, deputy creative director/executive director of broadcast at Young & Rubicam, San Francisco). At Vapor, he teams with music director Gerry Mosby and music supervisor David Hayman….New York-based boutique Buzz provided audio mixing and creative finishing services for a six-spot Campbell’s Select campaign featuring John Lithgow. The commercials were directed by David LaChapelle of bicoastal/international HSI for BBDO New York. Buzz’s Michael Marinelli served as audio post mixer; Peter Flack of Buzz was the online editor. BBDO’s team included chief creative officer David Lubars, senior creative director Ed Maslow, associate creative director/copywriter/art director Anna Fader, exec producer Lisa Chrisman, director of music/radio production Rani Vaz and senior music producer Melissa Chester. Original music was composed by Dirty Rotten Scoundrel’s composer and lyricist, David Yazbeck…..
House Calls Via TV and Streamers: A Rundown of The Season’s Doctor Dramas
No matter your ailment, there are plenty of TV doctors waiting to treat you right now on a selection of channels and streamers.
Whether it's Noah Wyle putting on his stethoscope for the first time since "ER," Morris Chestnut graduating to head doctor, Molly Parker making her debut in scrubs or Joshua Jackson trading death for life on a luxury cruise, new American hospital dramas have something for everyone.
There's also an outsider trying to make a difference in "Berlin ER," as Haley Louise Jones plays the new boss of a struggling German hospital's emergency department. The show's doors slide open to patients Wednesday on Apple TV+.
These shows all contain the DNA of classic hospital dramas — and this guide will help you get the TV treatment you need.
"Berlin ER"
Dr. Suzanna "Zanna" Parker has been sent to run the Krank, which is only just being held together by hardened — and authority-resistant — medical staff and supplies from a sex shop. The result is an unflinching drama set in an underfunded, underappreciated and understaffed emergency department, where the staff is as traumatized as the patients, but hide it much better.
From former real-life ER doc Samuel Jefferson and also starring Slavko Popadić, Şafak Şengül, Aram Tafreshian and Samirah Breuer, the German-language show is not for the faint of heart.
Jones says she eventually got used to the blood and gore on the set.
"It's gruesome in the beginning, highly unnerving. And then at some point, it's just the most normal thing in the world," she explains. "That's flesh. That's the rest of someone's leg, you know, let's just move on and have coffee or whatever."
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