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Jupiter Entertainment filming ‘Homicide Hunter’ at Grove Market

Posted at 11:34 pm June 26, 2019
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Jupiter Entertainment was filming for the television show “Homicide Hunter” at Grove Market in Oak Ridge on Wednesday night.

The scene appeared to include police officers and a police car and an ambulance and emergency medical workers, and that prompted some Oak Ridge residents to wonder what was happening. There were also camera and sound crews, lights, and a photographer.

The filming was under way at about 11 p.m. Wednesday, and it wasn’t clear how long it might last.

The episode being filmed Wednesday night could reportedly air in late September or early October.

Jupiter Entertainment has filmed in Oak Ridge before, including at Dean’s Restaurant recently and at the former Oak Ridge Mall several years ago.

More information will be added as it becomes available.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Television Tagged With: Grove Market, Homicide Hunter, Jupiter Entertainment, television show

Conservative talk show ‘Let’s Talk Frank’ returns to airwaves

Posted at 8:48 am November 6, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 2 Comments

The television show “Let’s Talk Frank” is returning to the local airwaves, host Lee Frank said.

The show will air live every Thursday on Comcast Channel 12 from 7 to 8 p.m., and it will feature state and local guests, commentary, and news. The show will also accept calls from the viewing audience, a press release said.

Founded in 2002, the conservative-oriented local show aired for seven years on BBB Comcast Channel 12 in Anderson and Roane Counties. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Front Page News, Government, Television Tagged With: Anthony Allen, BBB Communications, Comcast, conservative talk show, Lee Frank, Let's Talk Frank, television show

Guest column: Explosive interest in ‘Manhattan’

Posted at 6:09 pm August 29, 2014
By Atomic Heritage Foundation 2 Comments

Cynthia C. Kelly

Cynthia C. Kelly

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The WGN America television show “Manhattan” has galvanized the interest of millions of viewers. Shown on Sunday nights, national audiences are riveted by the dramatic tension between rival groups of scientists and the omnipresent security police in Los Alamos in 1943. “Manhattan” follows the scientists as they confront the challenges of making a workable atomic bomb while dealing with an intrusive military force, intense rivalries, and strained marital relations where couples can no longer confide in each other.

The show is a blend of fact and fiction. The primary characters are entirely fictional including the main scientist, Frank Winter; Chinese-American physicist, Sidney Liao; and wunderkind Charlie Isaacs and his most attractive wife, Abby. But “Manhattan” has preserved at least two real persona, J. Robert Oppenheimer as the director of Los Alamos, and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr who visits the laboratory to offer his advice.

The central tension is the race to develop two different approaches to a plutonium-based bomb. Winter believes an implosion bomb offers the best option but most of the scientists—including Oppenheimer—are more confident in a gun-type plutonium bomb similar to the design used for the uranium-based bomb. While the enmity between the two groups is exaggerated for television, “Manhattan” does a good job showing the challenges the scientists and engineers faced knowing little about the newly discovered and quite bizarre element plutonium.

In a 1965 interview with journalist Stephane Groueff, J. Robert Oppenheimer recalled: “I think the set of problems connected with implosion was the most difficult, and it required very new experimental techniques. It was not a branch of physics anyone was very familiar with. It was, from a theoretical, an observational, and a practical point of view, quite an adventure. Plutonium was a terrible test from beginning to end and never stayed quiet: it gets hot, it is radioactive, you cannot touch it, you have to coat it, and the coating always peels. It is just a terrible substance.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Guest Columns, Opinion, Television, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: atomic bomb, Atomic Heritage Foundation, bomb, Charlie Isaacs, Congress, Frank Winter, Germany, Hanford, implosion bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leona Marshall Libby, Los Alamos, Manhattan, Manhattan Project, Manhattan Project National Historical Park, National Park Service, Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize, Oak Ridge, oral history, plutonium, plutonium bomb, scientists, security police, Sidney Liao, television show, uranium-based bomb, Voices of the Manhattan Project, WGN America

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