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Director Andrews Jenkins, formerly of Food Chain Films, Portland, Ore., has joined bicoastal Go Film. In early 2003, Robert Wherry and Jonathan Weinstein, partners/executive producers in Go Film, became partners in Food Chain along with its executive producer David Cress. (Gary Rose has since joined Go as a partner/executive producer.) Per the partnership, Go Film handled the Food Chain roster of directors nationally. Now Wherry, Weinstein and Cress have disbanded their partnership. Cress will maintain Food Chain with directors Marc Greenfield and Vance Malone. The company will continue to pursue commercial projects, as well as diversify more meaningfully into the direct market….RSA and Blackdog Films–both bicoastal and in London–have signed noted Swedish directors Jonas Akerlund and Johan Renck for spot and music clip representation in the U.S. and the U.K. RSA will handle commercials while its sister shop Blackdog takes on music video assignments for the directors who work individually but are business partners at Renck Akerlund Films (RAF), Stockholm. Previously, RAF was repped stateside via bicoastal HSI Productions and in the U.K. through Exposure Films, London….Crossroads Films, bicoastal and Chicago–via its ongoing reciprocal relationship with Cowboy Films, London–has secured stateside spot representation for director Roger Michell, whose feature helming credits include Enduring Love, Notting Hill and Changing Lanes. Cowboy handles U.K. representation for Michell….DNA, Hollywood, has secured music video and commercial representation for directors Thom Oliphant and Steven Goldmann. Oliphant and Goldmann recently shuttered their production company, The Collective, LLC, to focus on directing, with DNA handling production and repping….Actor/director John Leguizamo, who’s currently starring in Assault on Precinct 13, is again available to helm commercials through CFM International, New York….Category:Street Talk
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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