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And Speaking of the GLAAD Media Awards...

World of Wonder has been nominated in two categories: In Outstanding Documentary (Sex Change Hospital) and Outstanding Reality Program (TransAmerican Love Story). We congratulate ourselves and keep in mind it's an honor just to be nominated among such company.



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WoW's Asian Invasion

Not since Godzilla first rumbled ashore has Asia faced such a pop culture invasion as a slew of World of Wonder shows prepare to storm the continent. SEX CHANGE HOSPITAL, having already graced America, the UK, New Zealand, and Sweden will soon be seen in Thailand while TORI & DEAN make their way to Korea and the Philippines and STANLEY KUBRICK'S BOXES, currently seen on Sundance, heads to Japan. Konichiwa bitches!



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Sex Change Hospital Tonight

If Sex Change Hospital were a serialized TV drama, tonight would be called the thrilling conclusion. But it's a docuseries so we call tonight's sixth and final installment a finale. In the episode, Emeri Burke, a 20-year-old male-to-female college student, wants to have her surgery before the fall semester begins at school; and Donna Richards, formerly Donald, is a truck driver who comes to the hospital for male-to-female genital reassignment surgery. And as usual, Dr Marci Bowers, the former Mark Bowers, will perform the procedures in Trinidad, a little town in Colorado known as the "Sex Change Capital of the World." The hourlong episode airs tonight at 11PM on WeTV.

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Sex Change Hospital Tonight

TV Guide has an interview today with Dr Marci Bowers, the OB-GYN who's performed more than 550 sexual reassignment surgeries in Trinidad, Colorado, the "Sex-Change Capital of the World." The interview coincides with tonight's fourth episode of World of Wonder's six-part docuseries, Sex Change Hospital, airing at 11PM on WeTV. Bowers herself is transgender, which she says "gives me a greater degree of empathy. I know how important it is to align the body with the soul, so to speak. For me, it makes perfect sense. I know where they're at now, where they've been and where they're going. ...These are interesting, normal, productive people who happen to be transgender. Their stories are real, and it really comes forward. They're just looking for acceptance and continuity between their spirits and their bodies."

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Sex Change Hospital Gets Around

Plenty of good reviews for World of Wonder's six hourlong installments of Sex Change Hospital, airing Tuesdays at 11Pm on WeTV.

The Hollywood Reporter's Ray Richmond calls it "entertainingly graphic, visually as well as verbally.... The people in the opener who remove the veil from their lives for the camera are almost shockingly open, which is no accident considering the program's pedigree. It comes from the World of Wonder team of Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, who have become something of the grand gurus of broad-minded content. Their past projects include the likes of "Inside Deep Throat," "The Joy of Cleavage" and "Secrets of the Sexually Satisfied Woman" as well as acclaimed docs about Tammy Faye Meisner and Anna Nicole Smith." (More)

Max Silvestri of Vh1's Best Week Ever talked about the show, sort of, on Best Night Ever:

But our favorite mention comes from this MSNBC story on Dumb by Linda Holmes: "The WE network recently debuted a show called 'Sex Change Hospital.' It may be a good show. It may be an interesting show. Nevertheless, the title sounds like an imaginary soap opera that would have been Joey’s worst job ever on an episode of 'Friends.' Close your eyes. You can imagine it right now, can’t you?"

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Sex Change Hospital Premieres Tonight

Tonight at 11PM on WeTV, World of Wonder's six-part series Sex Change Hospital has its US premiere. The series, which first aired in the UK, is exactly what the title would lead you to believe, and in tonight's part one, you'll meet Dr Marci Bowers, the former Mark Bowers, who performs an estimated 100 male-to-female and female-to-male procedures a year in her practice in Trinidad, Colorado, "the sex-change capital of the world." Above, is the Sex Change Hospital segment that aired on Entertainment Tonight last night, and here's an excerpt from David Hinckley's review in today's New York Daily News:

"For some, the high hurdles will come in two areas of this documentary-style report: first, the whole idea of transgendering, and second, some fairly graphic details about what's removed and what's added for patients going in either direction. On the other hand, the human part of the story – the things that patients and the people in their lives go through – provides familiar dramas about conflict, doubt and reconciliation. Often touching, those stories can resonate with everyone."

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Ed Wood Birthday Special

The Glen or Glenda trailer, featuring the director himself in a shocking! dual role. The precursor to WOW's Sex Change Hospital series, which start airing October 14 on WeTV.

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Sex Change Hospital

In her review of World of Wonder's life-affirming series, Sex Change Hospital, which premieres in the US October 14 at 11PM on WeTV, Karla Scoon Reid says on Syracuse.com, "You'll find yourself thinking about Sex Change Hospital's families long after the show ends. And you'll wonder: Will you always love and support your children – no matter what?"

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No Matter How You Slice It, Men Do Better Than Women

An innovative new study of pay inequity between men and women looked at transgender employees in the workplace and found that women who become men (known as FTMs) do significantly better than men who become women (MTFs). MTFs in the study earned, on average, 32% less after they transitioned from male to female, even after the authors of the study controlled for factors like education levels. FTMs earned an average of 1.5% more. Former WOW employee Afsheen Family thought this might be of WOW Report interest since the World of Wonder-produced Sex Change Hospital premieres next Tuesday at 11PM on WEtv. And he was right. (Time)

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Sex Change Hospital Still Operating

CBS just got around to doing a story about Dr Marci Bowers and Trinidad, Colorado, known globally as the "sex-change capital of the world," on its most recent CBS Sunday Morning show. It was two years ago that the World of Wonder crew went to Trinidad to shoot its acclaimed six-part Sex Change Hospital docuseries, which aired in 2007 on Channel 4 in the UK, and subsequently on TV in Sweden and Brazil. Those who bemoaned its absence from TV in the US can take heart now that it's set to air in the country where it's set. Beginning October 14, Sex Change Hospital will air at 11PM on WEtv. (Sex Change Hospital on MySpace; t/y Moye for the heads-up)

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Transmission

Jim Howley, from World of Wonder's Sex Change Hospital and Transamerican Love Story, talks to the hosts of Trans-Ponder.com about reality TV, getting kicked off MySpace, among other topics. (Listen here or here)

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Girls Who Are Boys, Who Like Boys To Be Girls

Jim Howley, one of the eight bachelors competing for Calpernia Addams' affections on Monday night's new dating series Transamerican Love Story, phoned into the World of Wonder offices to dish the dirt on what it was like to be 'outed' as a transgendered man himself, in the first twenty minutes of the premiere episode no less. Eagle-eyed viewers, however, may remember Jim previously disclosing his not-so-secret gender switch on another WOW production: Sex Change Hospital. Listen to Jim's voicemail here, and visit Jim's MySpace here.

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FYI

Sex Change Hospital, the WOW six-part series set in Trinidad, Colorado (above), proud to call itself the Sex Change Capital of the World, has a comprehensive MySpace page now. Check it out.

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The Doctor Is On

On today's Oprah, the topic is "Born in the Wrong Body," and she has as one of her guests Dr Marci Bowers, the surgeon (and herself a transgender) on WOW's six-part docuseries, Sex Change Hospital, currently running on Channel 4 in the UK. In this clip from the series, we see Vicki, two days after genital reassignment surgery, checking out the results.

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Notes on Sex Change

Excerpt from a review of WOW's Sex Change Hospital docuseries in the UK, from I'm the Other Dave:

"Everyone has a right to be an individual and comfortable in their own body. Some folk, however, like those on 'Sex Change Hospital', just abuse the bloody privilege. If I were to say that two grown men, last eve, removed their dinkles, became women, and then started a lesbian affair, would you believe me? Well, hopefully, yes. This is the 21st century, after all, you blasted prudes! If I were to tell you that the very same two lesbian trans-genders teamed up as a 'Cagney and Lacey' style duo in the weekend to fight crime, would you still have faith in my musings? In all honesty, I don't even believe myself. Unfortunately, 'Sex Change' hospital is a reality. It is a serious show what deals with the cold, hard facts of this world in which we live. There are two dyke, balless muscle Marys molesting innocent criminals in the U.S. as we speak. The mind certainly boggles."

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