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If Whale Wars is in the middle of its final season, as Paul Watson predicted , it will go out as one of the best reality TV shows ever. The series continues to edit the real-life actions of the Sea Shepherds into consistently compelling and intense television, as next week’s resolution to last week’s cliffhanger will undoubtedly illustrate. (Because of the holiday weekend, there’s no new episode tonight, but Animal Planet will repeat this entire season so far starting at 7 p.m. ET, so catch up if you’ve missed it.) That cliffhanger was intense—actually, intense doesn’t really begin to describe last week’s episode—and also controversial, generating discussion among fans of the show, and below, executive producer Liz Bronstein explains her choices to me. But first, a brief recap: Anyone who continues to insist that the show is propoganda for Sea Shepherd has never actually watched the show. This season, the Sea Shepherd’s newest boat managed to successfully prop foul a boat—itself! Rea...

Home > Soaps > Emmerdale: Jane Cox (Lisa Dingle) found filming rape scenes ‘intense’ and ‘upsetting’ February 23rd, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Jane Cox has admitted that she struggled while filming her recent rape scenes on Emmerdale. The actress plays mouthy Lisa Dingle on the ITV soap. The factory worker was recently sexually assaulted by delivery driver Derek Benrose – who she had formerly considered her friend – when they were both working overtime. She has kept the attack secret from her friends and family but will eventually break down and open up to her co-worker Lizzie and husband Zak. Speaking about being the central character in such a harrowing storyline, Jane told The Mirror: “It was hard and very upsetting to film as it made me think of other people who have really been through that. “I was in tears as I filmed it because it was so intense. And it can be quite hard to switch off. There have been scenes when Lisa is holding it together for her family and I’v...