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ABC PLANS 'BIRD FLU' THRILLER FOR MAY SWEEPS Tue Apr 18 2006 08:26:15 ET You may not want to order in hot wings for your couch viewing next month: ABC has announced a May Sweeps' bird-flu thriller! "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America" is set to air May 9, reports Michael Starr at the NY POST. The movie stars Stacy Keach, Joely Richardson, Ann Cusack and Justine Machado in a tale of a worst-case scenario, if the bird-flu virus was transmitted to humans in America. "We feel we're providing a level of awareness and we've gone to great effort to make sure the film is accurate," co-producer Judith Verno said. "We've included a lot of information we believe people need to know." "We had wonderful consultants who were actually ahead of the [bird-flu] curve," Kerew said. "The way the disease popped up in China, then moved to Turkey and Africa, were things we already knew about." "Our movie has a character who was in Iraq and got the bird flu there and survived - and, as we were shooting, the bird flu hit Iraq," Verno said. Developing... |
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