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The Entertainment Industry Development Corp. (EIDC)–a private nonprofit that facilitates on-location film, TV and commercial production in Los Angeles and surrounding areas–has elected Steve Dayan, a business agent with Teamsters, Local 399 (Studio Drivers and Location Managers), to chair its 2005 board of directors. The EIDC also oversees the joint Los Angeles City/County Film Office. The EIDC board consists of members from the industry, labor, the business/civic sector, and residential representatives. Among the industry players on the board are Randy Winograd of SBE Entertainment Group, Culver City, Calif., and Steve Caplan, executive VP of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers…. Director Brandon Dickerson, formerly of bicoastal X-Ray Productions, has returned to kaboom productions, San Francisco, for representation in commercials. He continues to be handled for music videos by X-Ray sister shop, Merge@Crossroads….Cheri Anderson has been named executive producer of the New York office of bicoastal/international Believe Media., a company founded by executive producers Liz Silver and Luke Thornton. Anderson most recently served as a freelance producer. Prior to that, she was director of project development at bicoastal Tool of North America, and a senior producer at TBWA/Chiat/Day….Media Distributors has named former Sony executive Tom Evans as senior VP/managing partner-Eastern operations. He will head the company’s recently launched New York office. A distributor of professional media products for the entertainment industry, including videotape, film stock, recording media and storage and data media products, Media Distributors also maintains operations in Studio City, Calif., Seattle and Las Vegas…..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 — 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 — and authority-resistant — 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 Popadić, Şafak Şengül, 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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