Foreign Body was a 2008
web series coproduced by the production companies
Vuguru (owned by former
Walt Disney
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CEO
Michael Eisner
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),
Cyber Group Studios
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(owned by the former Walt Disney executives Dominique Bourse and Pierre Sissmann), and
Big Fantastic
Big Fantastic, LLC is a filmmaking collective and production company located in Santa Monica, California which creates, develops and produces online video entertainment. The company is currently most known for their popular web series ''Sam Has 7 ...
(owned by the creators of the series ''
SamHas7Friends'' and ''
Prom Queen
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''). 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 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
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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
Big Fantastic, LLC is a filmmaking collective and production company located in Santa Monica, California which creates, develops and produces online video entertainment. The company is currently most known for their popular web series ''Sam Has 7 ...
References
External links
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{{Robin Cook (novelist)
2008 web series debuts
2008 web series endings
American drama web series