This week Ascent Media Group’s R!OT Atlanta officially launches a renovation and expansion, which increases the company’s overall space by more than 50 percent and includes new infrastructure to support HD, editorial, audio, visual effects and finishing capabilties. Three new 5.1-capable mixing suites, equipped with Fairlight Dream Constellations and MSoft’s server-based music and sound effects storage system, finish off the expansion. Additionally, R!OT Atlanta, which does not currently offer telecine services, has become a host site for Ascent Media’s UP Satellite service, which provides remote, real-time telecine sessions with colorists at sister companies R!OT Santa Monica, Company 3 (Santa Monica and New York) and Encore Hollywood….San Francisco-based animation studio Wild Brain has appointed entertainment executive Charles Rivkin as CEO. Rivkin formerly served as president/CEO of Hollywood-based The Jim Henson Company, known worldwide for its creation of The Muppets, as well as its television, film and video production, visual effects, character licensing and children’s publishing businesses. “Wild Brain is a well capitalized, artist-driven company that has the potential to become one of the most important players in CG animation” said Rivkin in a released statement. “I’m thrilled to have the chance to work with such an extraordinary group of people and I believe that Wild Brain will be a magnet for some of the most creative writers, directors and producers in the animation industry.” ….Bicoastal Post Logic Studios has hired colorist Sheri Eisenberg for its Hollywood-based digital intermediate team. Eisenberg previously worked at Hollywood-based Laser Pacific Media Corp. Post Logic also named Darby Walker as commercial producer for its Hollywood facility. During her career, she has served as an executive producer of commercials and music videos at R!OT Santa Monica, as well as executive producer at Santa Monica-based Radium…..
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 โ 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 โ and authority-resistant โ 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 Popadiฤ, ลafak ลengรผl, 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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