BuzzFeed - In a pilot for 8 Minutes that was never broadcast, a person who worked in production saw "exploitative" and "downright irresponsible" behavior, he told BuzzFeed News. A title card from Episode 4 of 8 Minutes. A&E Producers employed by Relativity Media, the production company behind A&E's 8 Minutes, manipulated sex workers and did not prioritize their privacy, a person who worked in an above-the-line position for the production's unaired pilot told BuzzFeed News. The premise of both that pilot and the subsequent A&E series is that sex workers are contacted by pastor and former police officer Kevin Brown, who meets them in a hotel room posing as a client and then offers the women "resources" if they want to get out of sex work. This source, who was only under contract for the pilot, said neither Relativity nor A&E had any intention of directly helping the women, but instead referred them to a local organization in Las Vegas. "The main takeaway here is there was th
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