Televisual articles from April 2004

Televisual archives from April 2004

Novel hires Edwards to boost expanding animation slate.(animation)(Marion Edwards)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Fimbles producer Novel Entertainment has hired Marion Edwards, former md of The Cramp Twins' studio Telemagination, as its animation consultant. Edwards will be involved both in the day-to-day running of productions and in sourcing finance...

Belfast indies bag Channel 4 investment.(broadcast)(Double Band Films)(Mint Productions)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Belfast-based independents Double Band Films and Mint Productions have both picked up Channel 4 funding as part of the channel's Creative Cities strategy. Double Band, producer of Christine's Children, picked up 65k [pounds sterling] of...

Regime-change at S4C.(broadcast)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Iona Jones, S4C director of programmes, is to introduce a new development structure at the channel to strengthen key programme genres. Factual output will be split into co-productions, general factual and factual entertainment; a music...

BAA winners count their awards.(animation)(British Animation Awards)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The Character Shop produced the opening film for the 2004 British Animation Awards, a comedy short featuring Slaughterhouse, a band of hard-rocking sheep. Winners on the night included Slinky Pictures' Dad's Dead (Best Film at the Cutting...

APA.(Advertising Producers Association)(www.a-p-a.net)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The technology group of the APA is to hold a series of seminars to help commercials production companies exploit new media. Topics covered in the series will include viral campaigns like Tango's (right), point of-sale TV and iTV advertising....

Television and Young People.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Television and Young People (TVYP) is calling for 18-21 -year-old applicants for its annual five-day course in Edinburgh (26-30 August 2004). The free course offers masterclasses and workshops run by industry experts, with the chance to apply...

Flextech.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Flextech has taken on Edward Humphrey in the role of executive producer for interactive programming. He joins from ITV where he was interactive commissioning producer for the network. He reports to interactive programming controller Simon...

Jacaranda.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Visual communications agency Jacaranda has appointed corporate producer Maggie Charlebois as head of production. Charlebois has produced corporate image, informational and training videos for organisations including the Metropolitan Police, COI...

Strange Times ahead for Slinky and BBC3.(broadcast)(British Broadcasting Corporation)(Slinky Pictures)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Slinky Pictures has been dabbling with the unexplained to create Strange Times, an animated broadcast pilot ordered by BBC3. The three-minute-28-second show grew from the BBC Talent New Animation Award in 2002. Written by Simon Dean and Ben...

Firecracker Films has created the graphics for Zeal's forthcoming live reality contest for Channel 4, Superhuman.(broadcast)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Firecracker Films has created the graphics for Zeal's forthcoming live reality contest for Channel 4, Superhuman. The show pits 10 contestants against each other in 12 scientifically-designed tests of human performance to crown a man and a...

Pioneer uncovers shroud for Channel 4 and WNET.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Pioneer Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 and WNET to investigate the controversial debate surrounding the Turin Shroud. Using new forensic evidence which could suggest that the famous Turin Shroud is indeed 2000 years old, the...

ITV orders 9/11 doc from CTVC.(broadcast)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Gearing up for the 2004 anniversary of 9/11, independent CTVC has been commissioned by ITV's head of news, current affairs, religion and arts Sieve Anderson to make Victim 0001 for ITV1. The one-hour documentary focusses on Father Mychal...

Exit Studios.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Exit Studios has created the content graphics for Zeal's new ITV series Building the Dream in which 12 couples compete to win a house by building it. Exit's Andy Cole designed the titles and graphics with an architectural theme, using 3D...

Optic Verve.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Optic Verve has been commissioned by the BBC/Discovery to supply vfx for the The Book of Revelation, part of the Bible Mysteries strand. The project included the creation (by Matt Howarth and an animation team headed by Johnny Settle) of...

Griffilms.(Cinetig)(Cwmni Da)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Griffilms, working with Cinetig and Cwmni Da, has completed a new 8x15-minute animation series, Cnex. The show aims its satirical humour both at global current affairs and Welsh targets. The commission by S4C follows a strong performance by a...

Wark Clements bags first sitcom.(broadcast)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Wark Clements is to take a leap into another genre after" picking up its first-ever series comedy commission from Channel 4. Meet the Magoons is a 6x30-minute sitcom ordered by C4 head of comedy and comedy films, Caroline Leddy. The...

The Producers spin web for ITV1 drama.(broadcast)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The Web of Belonging is drama indie The Producers' latest for ITV1, commissioned by ITV head of drama Nick Elliott. The one-off film stars Secrets and Lies star Brenda Blethyn as Jess, a woman who has given up her own life to look after her...

Lis Murdoch's Shine Communications is to make Hex.(the green light)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Lis Murdoch's Shine Communications is to make Hex, a Sky1/Sony Pictures TV co-production, for TX this autumn. The six-part supernatural drama involves a group of teenagers at an English college. Commissioned by Sky's Sara Johnson; directed by...

RDF has picked up a new LE commission.(the green light)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... RDF has picked up a new LE commission for ITV1 and more Wife Swap for C4. ITV's No Talent Required has two music managers vying to transform two talentless groups of friends into show stopping acts, Exec producer is RDF creative director Grant...

Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former director of communications, has been signed up for a series on Five.(the green light)
April 1, 2004... Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former director of communications, has been signed up for a series on Five. Liberty Bell, the indie set up by Andrea Wonfor and Stuart Prebble, will make the shows, including a 60-minute documentary about...

Thames is filming a second series of Murder Investigation Team.(the green light)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Thames is filming a second series of Murder Investigation Team (MIT) in London for an ITV1 airing later this year. The 4x90-minute series from writers Charlie Fletcher, Mark Burr and Andrew Rattenbury stars Goodness Gracious Me's Meera Syal....

Pioneer is to reconstruct the eruption of Krakatoa.(the green light)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Pioneer is to reconstruct the eruption of Krakatoa for C4 and C4 International, filming at the original Indonesian site and around the world. The two hour film was commissioned by C4's departing head of specialist factual Charles Furneaux (see...

Bob the Builder-creator Keith Chapman is to make a new stop-frame 52x10-minute pre-school show for Five and Nickelodeon.(the green light)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Bob the Builder-creator Keith Chapman is to make a new stop-frame 52x10-minute pre-school show for Five and Nickelodeon. Fifi and the Flowertots will be made by Chapman's indie Chapman Entertainment and Cosgrove Hall for a 2005 TX.

Natural history/science producer Tigress has won 44 hours of new commissions from UK and US broadcasters.(The Green Light)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Natural history/science producer Tigress has won 44 hours of new commissions from UK and US broadcasters. For BBC2 is a one-hour Natural World doc on orangutans; Dolphin Murders is a one-hour co-pro for Five with Discovery/ZDF commissioned by...

Attaboy TV.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Attaboy TV has put together a new 40 second online viral film to promote the new Mazda3. Megawash was commissioned by Digital Media Communications and shows a dull couple upgrading their partners as well as their boring car. Shot on film, it...

Multi Media Arts.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Manchester-based indie Multi Media Arts has won a new series commission for ITV1, ITV's head of daytime Liam Hamitton ordered the 15x30-minute cookery challenge show Reality Bites for TX this summer, Kevin Woodford (left) presents the show,...

Intro.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... No sweat for Intro with a new spot Changing Rooms for Dove deodorant through O&M. It mimics a heat sensitive camera focussed on a shop's changing rooms as two girls get increasingly overheated while the girl wearing Dove stays cool. The...

Hayling for BBC docs job.(moves)(Alan Hayling)(British Broadcasting Corporation)
April 1, 2004... Mentorn development director Alan Hayling is to be the BBC's head of documentaries, a new role created by factual and learning director John Willis to make the BBC "the natural home of documentary." Hayling joined Mentorn in 2001,...

Ten Alps buys up 3BM for 1.1m [pounds sterling].(deals)(3BM)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Bob Geldofs media company Ten Alps Communications has bought factual indie 3BM in a deal worth 1.1m [pounds sterling]. As part of the deal, 3BM directors Simon Berthon, Dan Korn and Marion Milne are tied into the company for the next two years....

BBC NI picks indie.(moves)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... BBC Northern Ireland has hired producer Patrick Spence as its new head of drama. Spence is to expand the department with commissions to sit with Murphy's Law and Messiah. He will initially concentrate on long-running series but will...

Furneaux exits C4.(moves)(Channel4)(Charles Furneaux)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Charles Furneaux, Channel4's specialist factual commissioner, has been hired by Talkback to head up its specialist factual and does trait. He will report to Daisy Goodwin. His C4 commissions included Wall to Wall's Ancient Egyptians and...

C4 raids Lion for daytime.(moves)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Lion TV's development head Adam Macdonald has quit to take up the post of Channel 4 head of daytime, vacant since Jo McGrath left last year. MacDonald will be responsible for the entire 6am-6pm schedule. He will report to channel head...

UK gets new indie DVD label: Dominic Saville, ceo of producer-distributor 3DD and md of InD, puts the business plan behind the launch of his new independent DVD label.(The Business News)
April 1, 2004... Having leapfrogged VHS sales at voracious speed, the DVD has become the No 1 collectable. Demand for the format has created unique opportunities for many independent producers and distributors, and I see further growth yet to come. At 3DD...

The end for Action Time.(distribution)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The Carlton-owned format and production company Action Time is to be fully absorbed into the Granada International brand fallowing the merger between Carlton and Granada. The Action Time name will no longer be used. The move comes soon...

Fremantle reps The Apprentice.(reality television)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Fremantle has teamed with the US's Mark Burnett Productions to take 16x1-hour reality series The Apprentice worldwide. The NBC US version of the programme, which stars Don aid Trump, has contestants fighting for the chance to become his...

All3media in gear.(factual)(All3Media International)(Fox's Speed Channel)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... All3Media International has sold its car-show Fifth Gear to Fox's Speed channel in the US, with further sales to HMG Holland, XYZ Australia, Ananey Israel, Discovery UK, TVNZ and Living in New Zealand. It has also sold its 6x30-minute...

ER hits Africa and the mid-east.(kids)(Entertainment Rights)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Nickelodeon in the middle east has picked up the rights to Post man Pat, Little Red Tractor and Basil Brush from Entertainment Rights, plus the Granada-produced My Parents are Aliens. African pay-TV network MNet has also acquired the ER...

Zeal's hat-trick.(reality television)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Zeal has three orders for Chatterbox format Under Construction. SBS Broadcasting is making the format (as Strandvejsvillaen) for TV Danmark 2; Finland's Channel 4 has Broadcasters making it for a 2005 TX; and Adventure Line is making...

It's a passion for Animal Planet: Peter Weil, general manager of Animal Planet International, runs through his wish-list of UK wildlife commissions.(international news)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... How much do you commission from UK producers? About 20% of the channel's programming is commissioned from the UK. Obviously, we've got our relationship with the BBC, but we also work with Granada Wild, Meridian and Anglia. What about...

Shotgun marriage anyone?(broadcast)
April 1, 2004... Love is in the air this spring with Hat Trick and Shed close to agreeing a merger-cum-takeover which would see a combined company worth over 80m [pounds sterling]. The news has fuelled predictions of a rush to consolidation in a sector whose...

At the Indies, veteran producer Michael Hurll picked up the gong for best live event for his British Comedy Awards.(month in review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... At the Indies, veteran producer Michael Hurll picked up the gong for best live event for his British Comedy Awards. Unofficially, he also picked up the award for best acceptance speech 2004 for his barnstorming rant at all the bastards who'd...

Meanwhile, at the RTS Programme Awards, the speeches were a little more subdued.(month in review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Meanwhile, at the RTS Programme Awards, the speeches were a little more subdued. Greg Dyke, who picked up a lifetime achievement award as an industry-wide ya-boo-sucks to Hutton and the government, saw his acceptance speech as "neither the time...

The RTS may also have had an indirect hand in Midlands indie Maverick Television bagging a star guest to cut the ribbon on its new expanded offices.(month in review)
April 1, 2004... The RTS may also have had an indirect hand in Midlands indie Maverick Television bagging a star guest to cut the ribbon on its new expanded offices. Culture minister Tessa Jowell popped in personally to congratulate Maverick and all indie...

Storyboard.(news)
April 1, 2004... In this month's Storyboard, Black Dog Films gets snap-happy for Zero 7 singer Sia; Jump beams into the nation's living-rooms for a BBC interactive quiz; Brave Films cleans the capital's streets for the mayor of London; Turner Classic Movies...

Titles go back to the future.(graphics)
April 1, 2004... I enjoyed your" extended Storyboard board last month (Televisual March), which featured many outstanding title sequences from recent television and film productions. But I was struck by the number of the lilies you selected that had a very...

The price of independence.(broadcast)
April 1, 2004... Your interview with Tim Suter at Ofcom (Televisual, February issue) posed an interesting question that sometimes gets forgotten by the current received wisdom that a "vibrant independent sector" is of itself a good thing from the British...

Regional ripples from TV in flux.(opinions)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... With nearly 600 TV jobs now history in ITV's central and Meridian regions, and with the Nottingham studios closing altogether after the 4.5bn [pounds sterling] Granada-Carlton merger, news that the BBC is to shut its Bristol design arm, with...

Playground television: with the ITV merger completed, an ex-kids controller in the top job and a decent budget boost, things are looking a little brighter for CITV these days. Jon Creamer asks Steven Andrew about his plans.(Interview: Steven Andrew)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... During the dog days of the ITV Digital disaster, kids' shows were the last thing on the minds of Granada/Carlton moneymen. Dwindling cash was siphoned off to primetime, leaving CITV a poor relation to CBBC and its expanding roster of kids'...

D is for dangerous ...: Richard Dale and his team have achieved a rare coup with D-Day: a commission won with no script nor cast, and a finished film which blurs the line between factual and drama.(In production: D-Day)
April 1, 2004... At 06.30 on 6 June 1944, an assorted armada of 3000 landing craft, 2500 ships and 500 naval support vessels carrying five divisions of soldiers--over 60,000 men--launched the greatest amphibian invasion in history off the Normandy coast of...

Local knowledge: there's room at the top as long-time incumbent Barcud Derwen takes second place. But never mind coming first, what about survival in the fragile business environment outside London? The answer: know your client.(Regional Facilities 30)
April 1, 2004... Hang on to your hats: Barcud Derwen, the Welsh giant that has dominated the Regional Top 30 since time immemorial, has been beaten into second place by Bristol's Films at 59. Not that Barcud Derwen isn't still the biggest facility in the...

Best in the business: judged by a jury of close to 200 over three weeks, this year's IVCA awards again highlight the very cream of the communications industry across film, video, websites, CDRom, DVD and live events.(IVCA Awards)(International Visual Communication Association Awards)
April 1, 2004... GRAND PRIX Sponsored by Republic Productions Grand Prix Award Winner Addaction Produced by The Media Trust Client Addaction MOTIVATIONAL TRAINING Sponsored by Big Picture Communications Gold Award Rewind--and Try...

US drama queen: anglophiles in the US can get their fix of UK drama of a Sunday night on PBS; this season The Forsyte Saga, Doctor Zhivago, Warrior Queen ... Rachel Murrell talks to the woman who books them--and backs them.(Rebecca Eaton: the co-producer)
April 1, 2004... If there was a would-like-to-meet list for British TV drama producers, Rebecca Eaton of Boston, Massachusetts would be at the top of it. Her credits on imdb.com run to nearly 100 titles and include most of the more prestigious British series...

Discreet ships Lustre II.(Technology)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Discreet has launched Lustre 2, the next version of its real-time colour-grading system for digital media and digital intermediate production. Developed with Colorfront, the product introduces new colour-correction capabilities designed to...

BBC post--cam enhances rugby.(Technology)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... BBC Outside Broadcast's special facilities group has devised another speciality camera, this time to enhance its coverage of rugby matches. Dubbed "post-cam," the 360-degree tracking camera will be housed above the pads around a rugby...

We Should Be Editing.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Victoria Real co-founder Richard Daws has launched We Should Be Editing, a post-production facility in Brighton. The house offers three edit, one encoding and a graphic design suite. Recent credits include No Going Back for Ricochet South/C4....

Navicam solution to camera-shake.(Technology)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The makers of a robotic camera system claim to have solved the problem of camera shake for coverage of fast-moving objects in sports like downhill skiing and F1. Navicam, marketed by Sussex-based Captimax. uses on-board transponders to...

New high-end finishing tool gets a NAB push.(Technology)(finishing and editing system)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Spanish developer SGO is launching a high-end resolution independent finishing and editing system. Mistika is claimed to offer a distinctive workflow and interface which will make it stand out against rival product such as Quantel's iQ, DS...

BBC axes Bristol design wing.(Facilities)(BBC Resources Ltd.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... BBC Resources has closed its award-winning broadcast design department in Bristol. The Bristol team was responsible for broadcast design, 3D animation, compositing and print design services, winning Best TV Campaign at the National Grand...

Promo stitched from digital stills.(Facilities)(Melissa Auf Der Maur )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... New promo Real Life for former Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur was crafted by the Oil Factory (director Scott Lyon; producer Zeno) by animating a series of digital stills. Using continuous-shoot mode, a Nikon D2 camera shot 8fps in...

Lighting Logic.(new company)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Lighting Logic has been launched by Mick Cocker and Matt Miles. Based at Maidstone Studios, the new company will handle lighting and sound sales; and design and installation for television, theatre, architectural and education markets. Cocker...

Alchemy Mastering.(audio post enhancment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Audio facility Alchemy Mastering, led by md Barry Grint, is enhancing its audio post offering with a 1.2m [pounds sterling] kit investment and relocation to Centre Point. 12 new staff have been appointed, including former Saunders & Gordon...

Parkervision.(Thomson Broadcast acquired)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Thomson Broadcast has acquired the video arm of Parkervision for 7.6m [pounds sterling]. The deal includes the PTV automated playout and Cameraman camera control technologies which provide a link between functions that normally need multiple...

The gold standard. Vfx win prizes (lots of prizes). So, amid signs that the production industry is coming in from the financial cold, broadcast and post-production firms are now emboldened to look to the annual showcase for advances in technology to see if thay can afford the next Oscar-winning application.(NAB: Exhibition)
April 1, 2004... As with any computer-based sector, new product in the TV market is increasingly characterised by all ability to manipulate data at ever greater speeds and with better performance. High-definition in particular will be a component of most...

Ascent lands LPC.(Facilities)(Ascent Media Group Inc., London Playout Centre)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Ascent Media has bought the playout and post-production business from the RTL-owned London Playout Centre. The LPC brand will be subsumed under Ascent Media Networks, which will now operate from Stephen Street, to which Ascent's Charlotte...

NTL wins Sky Vegas Live playout.(Broadcast)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... NTL Broadcast has won a three-year contract from BSkyB for studio and office facilities at its west London Broadcast Media Centre. The BMC's Studio 1 will be home to new interactive channel Sky Vegas Live, featuring virtual horseracing and...

Optibase grabs Media 100.(Technology)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Optibase will continue to support Media 100 HD and 844X after paying 1.4m [pounds sterling] for the bankrupt edit system developer. "We intend them to carry on, but may use their technology, particularly HD, for mutual products," says cfo and...

Quantel at NAB.(Technology)(QEdit editing software )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Quantel will unveil a new version of its QEdit editing software at NAB. The version was developed in collaboration with the BBC, with whom Quantel has partnered to implement a range of servers, cuts and craft editors for its new Broadcast...

Beware the pitfalls of HD: HD is coming; are you really prepared? Asks Tom Bird of consultancy and bare group, Shooting Partners.(Business)
April 1, 2004... Shooting Partners has been involved in HD ever since using it to shoot the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. The group has also helped produce the first ever 3D-HD shot around the world. But such HD activity has not been common in the European...

Highly-defined love: a new BBC drama that puts disability at the forefront of the agenda is also one of the first to be shot and post-produced in HD, a format chosen for both aesthetic and commercial reasons.(Every Time You Look At Me)(British Broadcasting Corporation)
April 1, 2004... Every Time You Look at Me is the first BBC drama to feature two disabled actors as the leads. It may even be the first anywhere in the world. "The disabled are not represented on any TV channels anywhere in the world," claims producer Ewan...

The index: listings for the production community.(Directory)
April 1, 2004... THE KIT COMPUTER GRAPHICS SERVICES & SYSTEMS NORTH * MGB FACILITIES LTD SGI based Softimage Extreme 3D Graphics, High Resolution Matador and Paintbox Express. Quantel Editbox--Non Linear On-Line Editing, Digital Betacam & Betacam...

Commercial TV: Mark Boyd is head of advertiser-funded programming at agency BBH. His department's first content, currently kept under wraps, will be hitting international screens this summer.(In My View)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... How much TV do you watch a week? It must be around 20 hem's a week at home. The box goes on before the kettle in the morning. What have you been watching recently? Back to Reality and Paradise Hotel--I like things with an element...

Kudos joins Bentley and Shed in indie drama league.(Winners And Losers)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Last month, six UK independents showed up in Barb's top 50, mostly for drama, mostly vintage, mostly for ITV1 : Bentley's Midsomer Murders (10.03m), Coastal's Wire in the Blood (6.89m), Shed's Footballers' Wives (6.72m; it added 300k extra for...

Happy Birthday Thalidomide Thursday 1 April, 21.00: C4.(April TX guide: a producer's guide to the month on the box)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... For the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the drug, and thalidomide victim Mat Fraser looks at the history and the future of the drug that left 10,000 children around the world with birth abnormalities, and that--astonishingly--may be about to...

England expects Monday 5, 21.00: BBC1.(April TX guide: a producer's guide to the month on the box)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The demonisation of asylum seekers is the theme of BBC Scotland's 2x1 -hour drama, which stars Steven Mackintosh as a fiercely protective father who loses the civilised plot. Writer Frank Deasy (Real Men, Captives), director Tony Smith (Tutti...

Daring Raids of WW2 Wednesday 7, 19.30: C5.(April TX guide: a producer's guide to the month on the box)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Five's take on the commemoration of WW2 is a series from Maverick fronted by Major Gordon Corrigan: six half-hour tales of derring-do that won the war, starting with a 1941 raid in Norway by the newly-formed Commandos. Producers/ directors...

New Tricks Thursday 8 April, 21.00: BBC1:.(April TX guide: a producer's guide to the month on the box)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Wall to Wall's six-part drama stars Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman and Dennis Waterman as a crack team of detectives. Producer Gina Cronk; executive producers Mike Dormer, Alex Graham; writer/creator Roy Mitchell; writers Simon...

The Transplant Trade (wt), week beginning 17 April: C4.(April TX guide: a producer's guide to the month on the box)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... True Vision's hour-long expose of how the western thirst for transplant organs makes victims of donors the world over (see Televisual, February). Producer/director Kate Blewett and producer Brian Woods follow people in need of an organ, people...