Director Samuel Bayer, formerly of RSA, has returned to bicoastal/international HSI Productions….Numero 6, the directing duo of brothers Laurent and David Nicolas, has split up. Each has embarked on solo helming careers with Laurent Nicolas joining Passion Pictures, London and Paris, for worldwide representation, while David Nicolas remains at Partizan…..Production house Twist, Minneapolis, has opened a New York office and added two directors, Grady Cooper and Jonathan Bekemeier. Amyliz Pera has been named New York-based executive producer of the company’s commercial division. Twist president/executive producer Jim Geib–who co-founded the company in ’97 with director/DP Rich Michell–continues to head up the Minneapolis office as well as the branded entertainment division. Twist has also promoted Jared Yeater to head of production….. Director/DP Richard Reens has come aboard Kandoo Films, Sherman Oaks, Calif…..Bicoastal Brand New School has added executive producers Jennifer Sofio on the West Coast, and Brent Holt on the East Coast. Holt most recently served as exec producer at Little Bull Films, Torino, Italy. Sofio brings an agency pedigree to her new roost, having served as a producer for MVBMS Euro RSCG, New York, from 2000-’02. She later became executive producer of bicoastal/international visual effects house creocollective…..Michael Neithardt has joined Stardust Studios as senior producer. He will work out of the bicoastal company’s New York office. The overall shop continues to be headed by executive creative director Jake Banks….Wendy Bryant has joined New York-based editorial house The Well as executive producer……
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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