| MUMBAI:
GRB Entertainment US has announced that the series Intervention, produced
by GRB Entertainment for A&E Network, has been nominated for a Prism Award.
Recipients will be announced at an awards presentation tomorrow 27 April at
the Beverly Hills Hotel. The presentation will air at a later date on FX Network.
The awards reflect the entertainment
industry's growing commitment to fighting substance abuse and addiction through
accurate depictions of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and addiction in film, television,
video, music and comic book entertainment. Intervention is a 12 episode
one hour documentary show that tackles the subject of addiction head-on. Each
episode profiles addicts who are about to face the toughest choice of their lives:
enter treatment immediately or be cut off from society. The individuals profiled
on Intervention are a cross-section of America. They are lawyers, mothers,
students, artists and athletes. Some of these addicts once had great wealth, others
beauty, talent and big dreams. But all share one thing: an addiction that is destroying
their lives and straining their families and friends to the breaking point. Though
each intervention is unique, all have one simple goal - get the addict into treatment
now. For comedy series, the nominees are All of Us' episode The
Spy Who Smoked Me, Everybody Loves Raymond's episode Pat's Secret,
One on One's episode Glug Glug, Reba's episode Where There's
Smoke and Saturday Night Live's - Good Morning Meth. The
drama series nominees are House's episode Hunting, Law and Order:
Special Victims Unit's episode Blood, The O.C. episode The Dearly
Beloved, Strong Medicine episode We Wish You a Merry Cryst Meth
and the Without a Trace episode Off the Tracks.
The musical
Rent and Walk The Line which deals with the life of country music
legend Johnny cash are competing in the movie category. For performance in a film,
the nominees are Rosario Dawson for Rent, Anne Hathaway for Havoc,
Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line, Christina Ricci for Prozac Nation
and Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line. The television movie
or miniseries nominees are Ambulance Girl, Behind the Camera: The Unauthorised
Story of Mork and Mindy,
Lackawanna Blues, Mom at Sixteen
and Riding the Bus With My Sister. These awards are presented by
the Entertainment Industries Council (EIC) in partnership with the National Institute
on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health, Department
of Health and Human Services. | 
