6.4 /10 1 Votes6.4
No. of episodes 50 Final episode date 4 August 2008 Executive producer Jennifer Candy | 6.4/10 IMDb Country of origin United States France First episode date 27 May 2008 Number of episodes 50 Directors Chris McCaleb, Ryan Wise | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Directed by Doug Cheney, Chris Hampel, Chris McCaleb, Ryan Wise Running time 120 seconds per episode Original release May 27 – August 4, 2008 Similar Prom Queen, SamHas7Friends, Sorority Forever | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Foreign Body was a 2008 webseries coproduced by the production companies Vuguru (owned by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner), Cyber Group Studios (owned by the former Walt Disney executives Dominique Bourse and Pierre Sissmann), and Big Fantastic (owned by the creators of the web television series SamHas7Friends and Prom Queen). The series, which ran from May 27 through August 4, 2008, comprised 50 episodes of approximately 2 minutes each, with a new video posted every weekday.
The series was a prequel and promotion for the Robin Cook novel of the same name, which was released on August 5, 2008, the day after the series finale. Portions of the series shot in India, and it cost a reported $10,000 per episode to create.
Plot
The core plot of Foreign Body concerns "medical tourism in India, focusing on “a group of dangerous Indian beauties” whose nursing skills will be put to some nefarious use."