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Groove Addicts, West Los Angeles, has unveiled Full Tilt, a composer scoring series specifically designed for major motion pictures, trailers, DVDs, and TV marketing programs. The Full Tilt music inventory of stylized music scores has been released in 5.1 Surround as well as stereo and can be licensed exclusively for a specific film or TV campaign, according to Groove Addicts VP, general manager Cindy Rosmann. Full Tilt is a musical collaboration between film/TV composer Kaveh Cohen and TV sitcom theme composer Michael Nielsen….Composer Chris Mann and executive producer Becky Blasband have formed music/sound design house The Collective in Los Angeles. Mann, who earlier had been at Machine Head, Venice, Calif., is creative director of The Collective. Blasband’s past affiliations include Machine Head and bicoastal Elias Arts….Composers Marta Victoria and Eddie Freeman of Icarus Music, Lakewood, Calif., demonstrated how to score to picture during a session at the recently concluded 2005 Santa Barbara Film Festival. The Icarus principals used their work on The Octopus Show–a National Geographic films that aired on PBS–as a case study. Best known for scoring TV series, Icarus is diversifying into the spot arena….Sound Lounge Radio, New York, is sponsoring a new contest honoring the best writing in radio advertising. Dubbed The Olives, the competition is designed to recognize new, unproduced radio scripts. The contest is open to writers and art directors working at ad agencies. Spot entries can be for any product and in any genre, but they must be previously unproduced. Scripts can either be written for The Olives or for client work that, for whatever reason, hasn’t been produced. Judging will be done by a panel of agency creatives and media critics. Winners will be announced in June, receive cash prizes up to $3,000–and have their scripts produced by Sound Lounge Radio and exhibited at an awards ceremony in New York. Complete details and entry forms are available at theolivesawards.com; entry deadline is March 31…..Category:News
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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