Reality
Long before reality programming became the TV fashion, Eaton Creative (as Café
Inc.) was producing fly-on-the-wall documentary series where
camera crews lived with particular groups of people for long
enough to get inside their lives. Eaton Creative specializes
in such action reality shows, where a combination of good characters
and spectacular action has provided consistently good ratings
for commissioning networks.
| COWBOY 101. A series
of 13 half-hour reality programs that follow the fortunes
of a college rodeo team in West Texas throughout a fall semester.
This small college has been national champions many times
in the past — it’s where American college rodeo was born
— but in recent decades its success has been limited. Now
a new young coach hopes to turn things around, although too
many parties and a number of wild freshman cowboys and cowgirls
end up making his job increasingly difficult. Hosted by cowboy
poet Red Steagall and produced by Eaton Creative for WETA. |
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MISSION POSSIBLE – THE SHUTTLE ASTRONAUTS. One-hour special that follows the
trouble plagued astronauts of STS-101 on their mission to
repair the ailing International Space Station. From first
mission assignment through training at the Johnson Space
Center and Star City in Russia, Leo Eaton’s crew lived alongside
the astronauts for more than a year until the Shuttle Atlantis
finally blasted off, the Space Station was lifted to a higher
orbit and the crew came safely home. An Eaton Creative (as
Café) production for A&E’s Investigative Reports. |
| WOMEN WARRIORS – THE MAKING OF A MARINE. One hour special that follows a group
of women marine recruits through boot-camp training at Parris
Island, from the first terrifying arrival in the middle of
the night to their ultimate test—a 72 hour ‘trial by ordeal’
called the Crucible—after which they graduate as US Marines.
An Eaton Creative (as Café) production for A&E’s Investigative Reports. |
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DANGEROUS SKIES; INSIDE THE US AIR FORCE. A two-hour special that follows a group
of pilots from three US Air Force squadrons flying F16s, Nighthawk Stealth
fighters and A-10s over a year of missions in the interregnum between the
two Gulf Wars. From bases in Georgia, New Mexico and Nevada, Leo Eaton’s
crews follow this group of men and women on deployment to the deserts of
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, flying with them as they enforce the ‘No-Fly’
zone over Iraq. This was the first time the US Air Force ever allowed TV
crews to place cameras inside the super-secret Nighthawk Stealth F-117.
An Eaton Creative (as Café) production for A&EInvestigative Reports. |
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