Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
television series
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye is a television series that premiered in 2002 on the PAX Network. The show ended in May 2005 due to PAX's decision to halt the production of original programming. It was one of the two highest-rated shows on the network, along with Doc.
Premise
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye is loosely based on the real-life experience of Sue Thomas, a deaf woman whose lip-reading expertise landed her a job with an elite surveillance team at the FBI.
Production
The series was created by Dave Alan Johnson and Gary R. Johnson for Pebblehut Productions. They also created another series, Doc, for PAX. Yuri Yakubiw was the cinematographer and Bill Layton was the art director.
Though set in Washington, D.C., except for some exterior scenery shots, all the episodes were shot in and around Toronto, Canada. More than half of the cast and production crew were Canadian.
The series was once known as Lip Service. Its theme song is "Who I Am", sung by Jessica Andrews. The song was written by Brett James and Troy Verges.
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