Rep Report
Stu Sternbach has been named head of national sales for Breathe Editing, New York. He continues to maintain New York-based independent rep firm Pangea, which has just signed Engine Pictures in D.C. for East Coast representation…. Marshall Grupp Sound Design and Music, New York, has secured Maureen Butler of Mo Butler & Associates, Chicago, to handle the Midwest….Global Production Network (GPN), a Los Angeles-based firm that handles production service companies from around the world, has added to that roster by signing Axis Media-Germany, for exclusive North American representation….DP David Wagreich is now available exclusively through Lyons Sheldon Prosnit Agency, Los Angeles….DP Fredrik Callinggard has signed with Innovative Artists, Santa Monica, for representation in spots, music videos and features….Production designer John Hammer is now exclusively repped for commercials, music videos and features through Radiant Artists, Los Angeles….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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