''Foreign Body'' was a 2008
web series
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coproduced by the production companies
Vuguru (owned by former
Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney ( ; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Golden age of American animation, American animation industry, he introduced several develop ...
CEO
Michael Eisner
Michael Dammann Eisner ( ; born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman and former chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005. Prior to Disney, Eisner was president of rival film ...
),
Cyber Group Studios
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(owned by the former Walt Disney executives Dominique Bourse and Pierre Sissmann), and
Big Fantastic (owned by the creators of the series ''
SamHas7Friends'' and ''
Prom Queen
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Students participating in the prom will typically vote for a ''prom king'' and ''prom queen''. Other students may be honored ...
''). The series, which ran from May 27 through August 4, 2008, comprised 50 episodes of approximately 2 minutes each, with a new video posted every weekday.
The series was a prequel and promotion for the
Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson "Robin" Cook (28 February 19466 August 2005) was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 until his death in 2005 and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 until ...
novel of the same name, which was released on August 5, 2008, the day after the series finale. Portions of the series shot in
India
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, and it cost a reported $10,000 per episode to create.
Plot
The core plot of ''Foreign Body'' concerns "
medical tourism
Medical tourism is the practice of traveling abroad to obtain medical treatment. In the past, this usually referred to those who traveled from less-developed countries to major medical centers in highly developed countries for treatment unavaila ...
in India, focusing on “a group of dangerous Indian beauties” whose nursing skills will be put to some nefarious use".
See also
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Big Fantastic
References
External links
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{{Robin Cook (novelist)
2008 web series debuts
2008 web series endings
American drama web series