Media Portrayals
A July 1977 New York Times article that was reprinted in numerous newspapers nationwide over the ensuing weeks, brought this malady to many people's attention for the first time.
Treacher Collins syndrome was featured in the 2005 Discovery Channel documentary, Unmasked: Treacher Collins Syndrome. As of 2008, it was still being shown on Discovery Health and the TLC channels.
The disorder was featured on the show Nip/Tuck, in the episode "Blu Mondae."
TLC's Born Without a Face features Juliana Wetmore, who was born with the worst case in medical history of this syndrome and is missing 30%–40% of the bones in her face.
In 2010, BBC Three documentary Love Me, Love My Face covered the case of a man, Jono Lancaster, with the condition. In 2011, BBC Three returned to Jono to cover his and his partner Laura's quest to start a family, in So What If My Baby Is Born Like Me?, which first aired as part of a BBC Three season of programmes on parenting. The first film was replayed on BBC One shortly ahead of the second film's initial BBC Three broadcast. Lancaster's third BBC Three film, Finding My Family on Facebook, which looked at adoption, aired in 2011.
A young man with TCS was one of a number of people with various face/body-altering medical conditions or injuries to take part in Katie Piper's 2011 Channel 4 television series Katie: My Beautiful Friends.
A boy with TCS was one of the subjects on National Geographic Channel series Taboo, in the episode, Ugly.
Released on February 14, 2012, the book Wonder (RJ Palacio book) is about a boy with the condition.
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Famous quotes containing the words media and/or portrayals:
“The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognises neither pity nor pitilessness.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past—the portrayals of family life on such television programs as “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” and all the rest.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)