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New York-based rhinofx has added 3-D digital artist Chris Moore, 2-D graphic designer Neo, and 3-D digital artist Bogdan Mihajiovic to its staff. Additionally, staffer Jill Hughes has been promoted to production manager….Janine Bottazzi has been promoted to producer at visual effects/animation studio Guava, New York. She will oversee effects and animation work for commercials, music videos and other media, and serve as a liaison between clients and Guava’s artistic staff. Guava is a sister shop to Nice Shoes, New York….Misha Stanford-Harris has joined Rushes Postproduction, London, as senior producer. He comes over from Guava where he spent the past three years. He has worked on assorted commercials (Mercedes-Benz, British Airways, Bacardi) and music videos (Fat Boy Slim, The Smashing Pumpkins). Prior to moving to New York, he worked at VTR, London….The Mill, New York, is staffing up, securing Angela Botta, formerly of Nice Shoes, as telecine producer, and Jo Arghiris, who joins the New York production team from The Mill’s London headquarters. The Mill, New York, expects to have a new Flame and two new Smoke suites operational by June. The shop’s Spirit suite was upgraded to HD last month….Editor Greg Chamberlain, formerly with Southern California’s Pistolera Post and prior to that Red Car, Santa Monica, has joined Crash & Sue’s, Minneapolis. The addition of Chamberlain marks post house Crash & Sue’s diversification into offline editing services….Denver-based creative digital studio !mpossible Pictures has promoted editor James Frazier to director of operations, and added designer/editor Heather Arment, who comes over from The Alliance, Colorado Springs….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."
As it's set in the German clubbing capital, the whole city... Read More