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D E F monitor needed content. There was a production document made that someone, at some point, named THE MEG. It was a flow chart of every Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network program on the air at the time, the competing programming at MSNBC & CNN, as well as Bloomberg and The Weather Channel. Every scene number, set and size of each monitor was listed in THE MEG, with the corresponding Fox programs that would have been on the air at the exact day and exact time of the scene. Every monitor on every set was predetermined with individual content, and video playback worked tirelessly to make it so. When I walked into Rupert Murdoch's office on "The Day" (precisely August 3, 2015 @ 2:56 pm), Shepard Smith was on the 56-inch flat screen, reporting on the dentist who had killed Cecil the Lion. I was particularly pleased at that moment how all the pieces of this "puzzle project" had come together. We did not, however, shoot at Walt Disney World. ADG D. ROGER AILES' UPSTATE NY MANSION, SHOT IN MALIBU. E. RUSSIAN CUBE FARM. BUILT IN THE LA TIMES BASEMENT. F. JOHN LITHGOW AS ROGER AILES IN THE FOX NEWS OFFICES. THE TOMATO RED 1ST-FLOOR STUDIO HALLWAY WAS DIRECTLY INSPIRED FROM BEHIND-THE-SCENES FOOTAGE, COMPLETE WITH STEVE PENLEY'S LARGE PAINTINGS PRODUCTION STILLS BY LIONSGATE/HILARY GAYLE Mark Ricker, Production Designer Christopher Brown, Art Director Arielle Ness-Cohn, Assistant Art Director Julia Levine, Mindy Toback, Set Designers Karen TenEyck, Marissa Zajack, Graphic Artists Ellen Brill, Set Decorator