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IT TURNS OUT
Hollywood’s best kept secret may be a video pro-
duction house in Minneapolis.
Most television viewers would never realize it, but those
“Story Until Now” recap specials that often air before the new
season of heavily serialized television shows like Lost, Grey’s
Anatomy, and Desperate Housewives typically aren’t produced by
the writers and directors who make the shows, or even by the
shows’ networks.
Instead, Hollywood’s promotions departments often turn
to MET | Hodder, a Minneapolis-based production com-
pany that specializes in creating these programs—which are
then packaged for broadcast and cable TV, DVD, computers,
mobile phones, ...