The "show" was produced by "Actuality Entertainment", and producers promised the students it would air on a major network. Many of the students cast in the show later claimed it was an elaborate scam by Utah-based security alarm company Firstline Security. Students were reportedly selected from around the country, perhaps as many as 2000. The show's creative director and producer Bryan Ferre announced that they were recruiting field camera crew from Collins College (Arizona). The show staged casting events at college campuses throughout the country in 2007. The Prodigy was an alleged proposed American reality TV show in 2007 that promised $1 million in cash and prizes to the ultimate winner, but was actually a recruiting scheme for an alarm sales company. If you are removing this template without fixing the naming style to one supported by WP:NCTV, please add the article to Category:Television articles with disputed naming style. The name of this television game uses a disambiguation style that does not follow WP:NCTV or WP:NCBC and needs attention.
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She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella Beggars in Spain which was later expanded into a novel with the same title. Every day, Alice sends Leisha a bouquet of common flowers, as if to remind her sister that ordinary people matter too. Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. Alice still lives in California, and her relationship with Leisha is somewhat strained, in part by Alice's enthusiasm for a pseudo-scientific organization known as the Twin Group, which tracks psychic connections between twins. In 2051, around 20 years after the events of the previous Book, Leisha runs a successful law practice out of Chicago. |