Ann Curry is searching for a solution. WarnerMedia Entertainment just announced the NBC news anchor will host a new TBS/TNT TV show, Chasing the Cure.
The live medical series “will harness the full power of both television and a multi-platform experience in order to break down medical barriers in service of patients. Additionally, this initiative will foster and empower people across the globe on all screens to become medical detectives.”
Alongside Curry, journalist Kim Bondy (pictured, right) is joining Chasing the Cure as showrunner. The series is set to debut on TBS and TNT on July 25th at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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LOS ANGELES, MARCH 19, 2019 – WarnerMedia Entertainment today announced the premiere date and showrunner for Chasing the Cure (formerly known by its working title M.D. Live) from TNT and Lionsgate Television. This is a groundbreaking enterprise anchored and executive produced by award-winning journalist and humanitarian Ann Curry. It brings together a weekly live two-hour television broadcast with a 24/7 global digital platform in an effort to help patients who are suffering from undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or uncured medical mysteries. This enterprise will harness the full power of both television and a multi-platform experience in order to break down medical barriers in service of patients. Additionally, this initiative will foster and empower people across the globe on all screens to become medical detectives.
Debuting Thursday, July 25, Chasing the Cure will be simulcast on TNT andTBS from 8-10 p.m. ET.
Joining Chasing the Cure as showrunner is Kim Bondy, an award-winning journalist who held top positions at CNN, NBC and Al Jazeera America before becoming Head of Content at Soledad O’Brien’s Starfish Media Group in 2017.
Through a 24/7 digital experience and interactive components including live, second-screen experiences, suggestions, along with highly accredited doctors, will be able to share their experiences, advice and recommendations on what’s happening during the broadcast in real time – all toward helping find cures for people with mysterious conditions.
Additionally, Chasing the Cure will cultivate an online community for everyone to dive deeper into each case, not only empowering every one of us to become medical detectives, but also creating a space for people to provide support to people dealing with undiagnosed conditions. Everyone will have the unique opportunity to submit their own cases via an in-take process to be cared for by an around-the-clock engaged community and considered for the live broadcast.
“How could I not want to be part of this project, given the real chance that it will help people suffer less? This collaboration of physicians, journalists and television creators is not only groundbreaking, it could potentially help encourage new ways for people to access care,” says Ann Curry.
“Leveraging the power of a global digital community to help real people solve their medical mysteries is our mission on Chasing the Cure,” says Michael Bloom, senior vice president of unscripted and live programming for TNT. “With Ann and Kim’s leadership and dedication to powerful, honest storytelling, we plan on delivering significant results to those who are in need of answers or a path to wellness. This is not just a one-dimensional live television experience.”
“The audience will have a chance to proactively make a difference when we launch Chasing the Cure this summer, a project that takes a groundbreaking approach to tackling people’s unsolved medical mysteries,” says Jennifer O’Connell, executive vice president and head of worldwide unscripted television for Lionsgate. “It is one of those rare initiatives that seeks to inspire with a larger humanitarian purpose, and it couldn’t be in the hands of a better network partner or a more brilliant and respected team.”
TNT has ordered ten episodes of the series from Lionsgate Television.
Chasing the Cure is produced by B17 Entertainment and Motiv8 Media in association with Lionsgate Television with Brien Meagher, Rhett Bachner, Kara Kurcz, Brian Lee and Eric Ortner serving as executive producers along with Curry and Bondy.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of medical series? Will you check out Chasing the Cure?
I can’t wait to watch. I’ve been sitting in the middle of the bed, on clean sheets naked because I cant stand having clothes against my skin. I have these things that grow all over my body that has been diagnosed incurable. I’ve been alone in this room for a year and a half. Ive had this disease for the last 11 years. I too would take a cure over millions of dollars. I sure hope there is some help on this show.
I have had migraines and stomachache since I was little. I am 52. Still no cure. Nothing found. Migraines every day, one Dr did give me Sumatriptan. I can’t work. But still cant get SSD.
I cured myself from Vasculitis without drugs.
I believe I can heal others.
David, I am very interested to know how you went about curing yourself from vasculitis. I was diagnosed seven years ago and receiving traditional treatments. Would like to approach diagnosis with new eyes.
Much thanks, Eileen
We have an issue we have been trying to get diagnosed for over four years. Constant pain and all they want to do is give pain medication.
My name is Bernice Smith, Jimmy Smith is my son he is 37 years old and he hasn’t walked in 5 years. He has Lithium Toxicity. He has gotten some better but we have along ways to go. He is bedridden he wears diapers he drinks a special kind of water thicket. This is from the drug Lithium. Bernice Smith
Lymes Disease
After suffering for years with constant illness I was diagnosed with lymes….it’s disheartening to think of how many doctors have dismissed not only my multiple autoimmune disorders, but also dismissing my chronic lymes….so so sad that there are so many suffering and no one cares…hope you can find some help. Lymes doesn’t ever seem to end, at least not for me the past 14 years.
My name is Michelle, I am asking, no begging for help for my brother, Chris. He had a traumatic above the knee amputation on his left leg that has never healed and often infected. His leg has never closed since the accident fifteen years ago. He often runs fevers and falls asleep a lot. He would never ask for help. He is dying and I don’t know who to talk to get help. Please help
How do you get on the show, or get more attention for this syndrome? I have a rare syndrome called mal de debarquement syndrome, which there is no cure for yet it mainly happens to women ages 30-60. I got my first episode after a cruise @ 30 felt a little when getting of boat to tour islands, but leaving the boat for good it lasted for about 3 months. The next episode occurred in my earlier 40’s on a train ride from Boston to NY felt immediately when I got off the train in Penn station, lasted 6 months.… Read more »
Renee, you’re describing one of the exact symptoms I have had for 20 years. It feels like the floor/ground is moving up & down on me ( like a sinky sensation. ) It’s debilitating. I even feel it when I sit or even lie down. I have other symptoms like exteme tension in my left side & pressure headaches. I was diagnosed with Arnold Chiairi Malformation but the doctors have been saying its anxiety & stressed related. I’m ignored and no physical doctor will acknowledge my symptoms which is very concerning. I hope they can help you & find a… Read more »
Can’t wait for show to help people find a cure. I am interested in also being considered to be on the show as a patient. I have been suffering with head & neck ,facial & mouth pain and unusual foul tasting oral draining it’s been awful and I’ve been misdiagnosised & belittled etc. Just need some help and some competent doctors to figure it out
I am excited about this new show. You never know who may be watching this and find some answers or clues to their possible condition. I think it will be exciting!
How can I find out how to possibly get picked to be a patient to find diagnosis for? Basically I’m wasting away. I weigh 87.2lbs. Did weigh 189lbs in 2003. I don’t want to die. I just broke my hip in Nov.2018. Ortho doctor says there’s NO fat ANYWHERE on my body. I have a husband and two sons and a grandbaby that I want to be here for. So….let me know please. Thank you!
I’m so glad to see this show something real and helpful. MY FATHER HAS BEEN SO SICK FOR YEARS WITH COPD. He has debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and suffers daily. This is a man who worked two sometimes three jobs at a time all to make sure my mom could be home with us. He is in so much pain and struggles to breathe. His doctor has been amazingly caring and has been like part of the family but there has to be more. My father although now almost a prisoner to his home still never complains. Please if it all… Read more »
I dont even know where to start, I have been sick as long as I can remember. I had painful swollen joints , chronic fatigue syndrome ,migraine headaches and this is all before i was seven my pediatrician was certain it was JRA but the test were negative yet i would wake up screaming with my legs hurting, then I got my periods and the pain was so bad it would send me to the ER, however when I got married and had kids each time I got pregnant my symptoms went away. When my last baby was six i… Read more »
Thank you for doing this show I am looking forward to seeing it. I too are going through a little pain with no explanation. I can walk but can’t sit down (even to use the restroom very painful). The right side of my leg and the right ankle, they are going to do a MRI on the lumbar. I need help. Please keep the show maybe I can get some help from the doctor.
I had knee replacement on my right knee and the Dr. didn’t put it in properly. This was in 2012 and it still hurts. Then in May of 2013 I got nectorizing fasciitis which is a skin eating bacteria. I ended up losing my trapezius, rhomboid and tricep all on my left side. I was in the emergency room for 3 crucial surgeries because the doctors told my family that I had a good chance of passing away and if not losing my left arm. Fortunately neither happened. Then they took me to the burn unit in West Hills, California.… Read more »
Mo -this will sound crazy but what fights bacteria-even strong strains better than anything else are essential oils & fruits & greens. Take balance of nature. It will make your body stronger and fight the disease. use essential oils-on the sores. Stop depending on doctors who are largely failures with the limitations of the AMA.