World traveler, Carl Gibson just returned from Russia where he spent two weeks filming "The Oksana 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: The 21st annual "Spotlight Awards" at the Shrine and AFV at Disneyland. He keeps trying to retire, but the town won't let him.

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 duo. "Jeopardy!" has recently traveled to Madison, North Carolina and Las Vegas. Up next America's most popular game show "Wheel of Fortune" goes to the Big Island of Hawaii! A big undertaking involving 9 containers and trailers shipped all the way from L.A. just for lighting and power. The show will take place under an 85' x 100' roof structure constructed at the shore just for the show. Four weeks of shows will be taped at the Hilton Waikoloa village resort. Wheel also recently traveled to Florida, Boston, and Jamaica. "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. Recently completed: Game Show Network's Award Show Pre-show. Up next: "The 16th Annual SAG Awards" and its nominations, which will be 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.

Jeff Calderon just wrapped up his duties on the lighting installation of the Intertainment Broadcasting Corporation studios or iBC-TV. iBC is uniting live television with complete user interactivity. Revolutionary for its distinctive fusion of multimedia vehicles, this innovative media platform offers a new and unrivaled experience for the audience as well as the advertiser. iBC offers a win-win situation to consumers and retailers by connecting advertisers directly with consumers with their interactive morning television program. This morning show will air seven days a week on the E! Entertainment Television Channel. Before that he had kept busy with Yahoo! music live sets which were new concerts with various popular artists such as the Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, Snoop Dogg, Incubus, LL Cool J, Melissa Etheridge, Beck, and more, constantly airing on the web. Jeff also worked on the "Trivial Pursuit! America Plays" game show series, GSN's "Meow Mix: Think Like a Cat" game show hosted by Chuck Woolery, and the Todobebe' series. Our telethon pro also worked on "The Chabad Telethon", "The Armenia Fund Telethon" and the Award Show for Local 600 Cinematographer's Guild, "The Publicists Awards". Jeff also took on Tom Green's new talk show on Planet Green Network titled "Green's Got Game". Recently completed: Thermaclear, Laura Geller, Rosetta Stone and The Rocket Grill infomercials and BET's game show "Take the Cake", as well as talk show series "Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence", "The Hour", a Women's Conference at the Long Beach Convention Center, and Si-tv's "Jammin'" and "The Drop". The Elvis Mitchell half-hour interview series is bathed in grays and browns to give it a classic feel. Having a live audience gives the episodes a more animated touch. The critics don't deny that it's one of the classiest interview shows to grace the airwaves in a long while.

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. There he lights "The Daily Habit", 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 recently completed KTVN's News set and wrap-arounds for the "New Years Rockin' Eve" show. He helps cover "Divorce Court" for Carl when necessary and add "Wheel of Fortune" to Art's list now too, as he's helped to cover it for Jeff E. as well.

Jim Carne's work shined on his latest muscial talent show "The Chris Isaak Hour". With special guests such as Tricia Yearwood, The Smashing Pumpkins, Stevie Nicks, Chicago, Michael Buble and Jusef Islam, Jim was able to do what he does best. Jim also worked recently on The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) lead-ins with Joe Rogin and an infomercial 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. 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" and "The Insider" at The Emmys and The SAG Awards. Up next, The Oscars Pre-show. He's also helping them out in the studio. "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 "Catch 21" with these same Producers. "Catch 21" is GSN's series hosted by TV pro Alfonso Ribeiro and blends pop trivia with the card game 21. Jim also aids in covering for "Divorce Court", and "America's Funniest Home Videos" when the regular LD is unavailable. Jim recently completed an ad campaign for McDonalds, numerous other pilots, as well as another graduation from Scott Sternberg's reality TV show, "The Academy" where Deputies are molded to serve in the L.A. Sheriff's Department and the pilot, "Ego".

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 Tour. 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. Lately upfront has shown a rapid shift to focus on the online world and its newsworthiness has grown exponentially. Also recently completed: The Game Developer's Conference, The Home Depot Store Manager's Meeting and Innovation Exchange, The MTV Movie Awards Pre-show, The Kids Choice Awards Pre-show, HP Comdex, HP Leadership Summit, ESPN X-Games, Intel Core i-7 Launch, and a few different projects for The Milken Institute. The Home Depot show took place at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Home Depot had managers from around the country in attendance. The client for Sunrise sent Robin a note thanking her for her remarkable, exciting, original work in Sydney and said it was a true gift of beauty and asked her back in September for Hawaii. 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. For months standing on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one of L.A.'s most cherished icons, Robin lit up the twenty-foot replica Absolut bottle exhibit featuring the gigantic iconic bottle perched right at the entrance to the Kodak Theatre. Last but not least was IHG, a management conference for the InterContinental Hotel Group. Three completely different venues, one being at Hollywood and Highland where the Governor's Ball is held -- pretty large scale.

Patrick Schulze, the Lighting Director for the Yahoo! Music live sets has been working consistently there lighting several various big artists. He has also just completed "Trivial Pursuit", "Go for the Green", his annual RSA Gala, The L.A. Auto Show, Roland at NAMM, the GM Style event, the Palm Springs Follies which he also does annually, and a few Corporate events for Bank of America. Gameplay HD, Rainbow Media's high-definition channel that focuses on video gaming, teamed with Electronic Arts to create a new TV series featuring the "EA Sports Madden Challenge". Pat was in on this show which was shot at Universal Studios on the set of "Fear Factor". The winner of the tournament takes home cash and prizes totaling $100,000. Patrick has also been helpful in covering for Jeff on "Wheel of Fortune" when necessary and has also recently flown to Boston and Las Vegas with them. We're happy and proud to have Pat on board with us.

Jeff Barr is back with a vengeance and has been working on a large-scale facilities project for Cottonwood Church. Cottonwood Church has been called One of Southern California's Most Innovative New Facilities and Jeff was there from the beginning taking place in the building of this new church from the ground up. This remarkable accomplishment happened all the while still allowing members to gather together in the same place, at the same time, for worship services! Cottonwood Church's new campus now boasts a 3,500 seat worship center and an HD-ready production system. Jeff also recently lit the Phoenix Mission 2- hour live (in HD) event for Discovery Channel Canada which took place here in town at JPL. He also recently completed an X-Press, Redi Set Go infommercial, a pilot for Lifetime, Fred Rogan's "Sports Weekly", and KSEE-TV news set. He continually works on KNBC and Telemundo news sets as well and has filled in on The Carson Daly Show. Victory Outreach has counted on him for their conferences including The International World Conference, The Youth Convention, and The Women's Convention, and The Men's Conference.