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Director Richard Yelland has secured representation in Canada via Imported Artists, Toronto. He continues to be repped stateside by Conceive Media, a satellite of bicoastal/international Believe Media….Plum Productions, Santa Monica, has signed director Jake Schreier. Already at his new roost, Schreier, 23, has wrapped his first commercial, a job for Pontiac. Schreier made his initial mark with the short film I Love My Cat. During his sophomore year as a Tisch Scholar at NYU film school, Schreier gained distribution for the film, which screened on the Independent Film Channel, as well as at other venues. He also recently helmed a music video for The Thrills….Dana Tynan, a noted fashion photographer recently turned director, has joined Detour, a Venice, Calif.-based production house headed by executive producer Josh Canova, for representation as a commercial helmer….Vinton Studios, Portland, Ore., has added three commercial directors to its advertising division: animator/video helmer/painter/multimedia artist Courtney Booker; Jeff Drew, who created the animated short film Walk, which has scored on the festival circuit; and animation director and designer Aaron Sorenson….Commercial film and design company Hornet, New York, has signed stop-motion animation artist Peter Sluszka for exclusive representation. His recent endeavors include collaborating with director Michel Gondry of bicoastal/international Partizan on a music video for the single “Walkie Talkie Man” from Kiwi rock/hip-hop amalgam Steriogram. The clip received a Grammy nomination for best short form music video of the year….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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