Life Imitating Art : Numb3rs' Pre-roll

My love for books written by Robin Cook has witnessed two cases of life imitating art through the years. One of them is Vector where he wrote about an anthrax scare that actually became reality a few years back. There was really nothing the author can do because the book had already been published but Numb3rs on CBS' case was different.

Last Friday's episode of Numb3rs was shot before the train collision that occured in Chatsworth, California last September 12 and David Krumholtz who plays the sexy mathematician, Charlie Eppes, did a pre-roll explanation that some of the scenes may be hard to watch for victims and families of the real collision. I appreciated the sensitivity of the show's producers to include this pre-roll. We cannot avoid the fact that sometimes life does imitate our creative work and we must always be conscious of our viewers' feelings so as not to add to the emotional trauma already brought about by the catastrophic incident.

Thank you for being responsible enough to have that segment of Numb3rs last night. You did good!



Photo Credit: Numb3r's CBS website