21/Mar/2007
London
Zonemedia has acquired the rights to the hit ABC News Primetime human documentary series MEDICAL MYSTERIES in Zone
Reality s first deal with The Walt Disney Company s Buena Vista International Television, it was announced today by Steve Cole, Senior Vice President, Channels, Zonemedia.
The 6x 60 minute series will air on Zonemedia's Zone Reality channel in the UK.
Gosia Walak, Programming & Acquisitions Manager, Zone Reality, who concluded the deal comments, "We are very pleased to be working with Buena Vista International Television and we hope this acquisition will herald the start of a long relationship. This show is exactly the right fit for our Zone Reality channel with its clear focus on how everyday lives can be turned upside down by medical nightmares which continue to remain a mystery for the world's experts."
Medical science has progressed exponentially in recent times, but scientists are still left with unanswered questions when it comes to the human body. From why a mother can't recognize her own child's face to why a young woman spends most of her life sleeping, MEDICAL MYSTERIES looks at some of the rarest disorders and syndromes in medicine today. Each hour of the 6 part series will feature baffling medical conditions, as well as the doctors who are working on cures.
Over the course of the series, doctors will solve genetic puzzles, explaining how these and other rare conditions occur and why.
Imagine a person goes to bed one night and wakes up the next morning speaking with an entirely different accent, from a country he or she has never even been to; or Foreign Accent Syndrome, where a people find themselves speaking their native language but - out of the blue -- with a distinctly different accent including how a woman awoke one day with Russian accent - having never even been to Russia or Europe - and no idea where it came from, and a second man who, after a stroke, finds he has a German accent. After much testing and hypothesizing, doctors diagnose both people with the rare syndrome, but much mystery remains as to how and why this happens.
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