BuzzFeed - A source at A&E said 17 women were helped by the show. BuzzFeed News investigated the resources provided. An intertitle from 8 Minutes. A&E Relativity Media, the production company behind the sex worker intervention show 8 Minutes, relied in part on already over-burdened resources to "save" women from prostitution, the stated intent of the series. At least part of the production's plan was to refer the women to local Houston services, seven sources involved with the show's plans have confirmed to BuzzFeed News. This would have mirrored the practices of the pastor at the center of the show, Kevin Brown, who runs two intervention programs â one for gang members, and one for sex workers â that focus on "collaborating with other resources," as he said in an interview on YouTube. "The show created a demand for services that the show was not willing to meet," Cat French, a Houston-based anti-trafficking activist who consulted briefly on 8 Minutes, told BuzzFeed New
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