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Our newest member, Patrick Schulze has been working consistently on the Yahoo! Music live sets as well as completing his annual RSA Gala, The L.A. Auto Show, Roland at NAMM, the GM Style event, and the Palm Springs Follies which he also does annually.  Pat recently completed a video game competition show for EA Sports and Gameplay HD.  This Hi-def show was shot at Universal Studios on the set of "Fear Factor".  Patrick has also been helpful in covering for Jeff on "Wheel of Fortune" when necessary.  We're happy and proud to have Pat on board with us.

Jim Carne worked recently on an infomercial for "Turbo", plus another for Sylmark, "Wonder Cooker".  Sylmark is a group of affiliated integrated marketing companies founded in 1998 by industry pioneers who have collectively sold nearly $3 billion of consumer products to date.  Up next he travels to the Mall of America in Minnesota for "Walk Fit 2".  Jim recently completed numerous other pilots as well including "Salon Confidential", a reality show from Endemol that involves hidden cameras inside a Hair Salon and "I Hate My Job", featuring Reverend Al Sharpton.  "I Hate My Job" is television's first-ever career makeover show.  He also worked on a special for the Today Show.  The Today Show has won the morning ratings race for over seven years!  Jim lit the Pre-show for "Entertainment Tonight" at The Oscars and The SAG Awards.  He's also helping them out in the studio over at Paramount.  "Entertainment Tonight", America's first choice for entertainment news, fell for Jim the minute he stepped on set.  The host, Leeza Gibbons gives kudos to Jim for making her look so good.  Jim has also been working on "Sunday Morning Shootout".  This talk-show with Peter Bart of Variety and Peter Guber of Guber/Peters is an entertainment news show which discusses issues in the entertainment business every Sunday morning alongside various celebrity guests such as Sylvester Stallone, Dustin Hoffman and Cuba Gooding, Jr.  The show was just picked up again and has already been up for Emmy nominations.  "Sunday Morning Shootout" took Jim on the road to Santa Barbara, and Palm Springs for the Film Festival, along with an Oscars special here in town.  Jim also does "Reelz", "Seduce the Celebrity", and "Square Off" with these same Producers.  "Square Off" is TV Guide's weekly series about the TV industry, starring talker Andrew Wallenstein.  Jim also aids in covering for "Divorce Court" and "America's Funniest Home Videos" when Carl is unavailable and recently completed another graduation from reality TV show, "The Academy". 

Robin Gray is recovering from Las Vegas where she again designed and directed for five different rooms at the MGM Grand for the Nortel Global Sales Conference.  She manages and wrangles five different crews for this show!  Talk about a team leader.  She does this all with a huge smile.  Immediately after all her duties on the MSNBC Presidential Debate, Robin took off to work on a high-scale wedding and then straight from there to Shanghai for Hewlett- Packard!  Coming up is the bi-annual TCA Press Tours.  The annual broadcast TV upfront frenzy that is Press Tours, or "futures market", allows the ritual of buyers and sellers into negotiations to place more than $9 billion in advance advertising commitments for the upcoming television season.  Broadcast networks typically sell 80%-85% of their ad inventory for the coming year during upfront.  She'll be back again this year for another round.  Also recently completed:  The Game Developer's Conference, The Home Depot Store Manager's Meeting and Innovation Exchange, "Sunrise" in Vancouver, Toby Keith's new music video, Intel at ISMC, HP Comdex, ESPN X-Games, Sun Storage Forum, and a few different projects for The Milken Institute.  The Home Depot show took place at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta and had manager's from around the country in attendance.  The client for Sunrise sent Robin a note thanking her for her remarkable, exciting, original work and said it was a true gift of beauty and asked her back in October for Sydney.  No surprise to us.  The Global Conference Robin lit for Milken in Beverly Hills had speakers from the top of media discussing the preparation and shaping for the future of entertainment, internet, advertising, news, technology and finance.  She still does parties too: she lit Jerry Perenchio's birthday and a party for Comedy Central.  Also recently completed is HP's "Imageprint", "Elizabeth, the Golden Age" premiere, and Warner Brothers CW Network Launch.  The Warner Brothers lot in Burbank was turned into a CW-themed sea of green to celebrate the launch of the network.  A green carpet -- inspired by the primary color featured in the network's marketing materials and Web site -- greeted guests at the lot, where 2000 partygoers turned up to celebrate the debut of the CW, created by the merger of WB Network and UPN into a single entity.  The studio was filled with impressive festivities, CW-themed neighborhoods of storefronts, photo galleries, and of course, a green bar.

Jeff Barr is back with a vengeance and working on a large-scale Church project for Cottonwood Church.  He also recently completed an infommercial, Victory Outreach International World Conference, Fred Rogan's "Sports Weekly", and KSEE-TV news set.  He continually works on KNBC and Telemundo news sets as well.

Jeff Calderon has kept busy with Yahoo! music live sets which are new concerts with various popular artists such as the Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, Incubus, Melissa Etheridge, Beck, and more constantly airing on the web.  Jeff has also been working on the Discovery Health Network's series, "Berman and Berman", a talk show with a live audience about women's sexuality featuring two sibling Therapists.  Along with "Berman and Berman" is "Wolfgang Puck", the Emmy Award winning cooking show which THR call 'perky, informative and, above everything else, feel-good'.  Also a Lifetime show "Lisa Williams:  Life Among the Dead", which centers on young  British psychic medium Williams, who claims that she can see and speak with the dead.  Jeff recently completed shooting "It's a Miracle", a reality show hosted by Roma Downey that explores miracles and life-altering stories and "The 50th Anniversary of the Bus Boycott" in tribute to Rosa Parks in Alabama, and also the "Trivial Pursuit" game show pilot, which was just picked up.  The "Chabad Telethon" in September was another hit as was the Armenian Telethon in November, which he has been hired back for.  The Publicist's Awards was another recent award show Jeff did.  Also recently completed:  The Contour, The Rocket Grill infomercials and game show "Take the Cake", as well as talk show series "Elvis Mitchell:  Under the Influence", "Design Club with Matt and Shari", Todobebe' pilot (just picked up for series, which Jeff will return for), and Si-tv's "Jammin'" and "The Drop".  

Emmy Award nominee Jeff Engel has been busy with the powerhouse game show duet "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" in the studios, in addition to traveling on location with the Emmy Award winning "Jeopardy!" in New York, North Carolina and Lad Vegas and "Wheel of Fortune" in Hawaii, Florida, and Chicago.  "Jeopardy!", 'America's #1 Quiz Show' has held that place for nearly 950 weeks and comes in first place for 67 consecutive ratings sweeps periods and recently celebrated a milestone 4000 episodes.  "Jeopardy" was nominated in several categories, but the 'Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction' is all owed to Jeff.  The game show averaged a 10.2 household rating - its best showing in 4.5 years.  "Jeopardy!" ranked as the number one show in syndication for a third consecutive week!  Runner up was our "Wheel of Fortune".  Spinning since 1975, Wheel, after more than two decades in syndication, is STILL (and has been) the #1 program in the history of syndicated television and this year marks its 23rd season in syndication.  It is seen by more than 16 million viewers each evening in the U.S. and 100 million weekly viewers worldwide.  "Wheel of Fortune" continues to adopt the latest technologies as part of its drive to stay fresh and connected to its audience.  Both of these shows have just been picked up through the 2010 television season on key ABC stations!  Jeff just finished up "The 14th Annual SAG Awards" and its nominations, which were held at the Shrine.  TNT and TBS shared a live telecast of The SAG Awards and is both Channels most watched and highest rising annual show.  Also recently completed:  the lighting of the tree at The Grove for the "Hollywood Holiday Celebration".

World traveler, Carl Gibson just returned from Russia where he spent two weeks filming "The Oxana Marchenko Show".  With a Translator by his side, Carl whipped the show right in to shape.  Next up, Paris for "America's Funniest Home Videos" on location.  He has also kept plenty busy with the eighth season of the "Divorce Court" series, which was just renewed!  Also, the 19th Season of America's Funniest Home Videos:  a hilarious, classic, reality genre show where Americans send in their most outrageous videos to compete for big money.  Twenty-six new episodes plus a one-hour special have been ordered for this seventeen year-old series, which continually wins over ratings.  A landmark 300th episode was reached recently making Vin Di Bona's America's Funniest Home Videos the longest running primetime entertainment program in the history of ABC Television Network.  The show has given away more than $9 million in prize money to people submitting home videos.  Recently completed:  AFV in Florida and AFV Cruise.  Coming up:  the 20th annual "Spotlight Awards" at the Shrine and AFV at Disneyland.  He keeps trying to retire, but the town won't let him.

Emmy Award nominee Art Busch has kept busy with NBC's number one daytime drama for 23 seasons running, "Days of our Lives", which has been on the air for forty years!  Its 250 episodes each year boast 3.4 million viewers during any given minute.  He's stayed busy with Playboy Entertainment Group.  Art worked on putting together, and continues to help maintain an entire studio package and grid for their new digital production facilities in Los Angeles.  The studio is expected to handle a wide range of production and postproduction services for several networks.  Art is currently working at the new Fuel TV facilities as well.  He lights "The Daily Habit" there, which is a daily half-hour series devoted to all things youth culture, including product interviews, music by independent, alternative and hip-hop artists, plus humorous skits.  It mixes the best in pop culture with today's top action-sports personalities and cutting-edge music and comedy.  Each episode is filled with celebrity guests, athletes, and musicians who you want to see and hear.  "The Weekly Update", also at Fuel, heard about Art's expertise and has called him in as well.  In between everything else Art lights "Pet Star".  Art recently completed KTVN's News set and an interview set for the TV Guide channel.  Up next:  "Planet's Funniest Animals" begins its eighth season on Fox!  Add "Wheel of Fortune" to Art's list now too, as he's helped to cover it for Jeff E. as well.

Last modified: May 13, 2008