NEW YORK / Copiapo, Chile (AP) - The rescue of the Chilean miners is an episode of "uplifting and exciting" in

contrast to the tragedies and heartaches that dominate the news, says a senior executive of the Discovery network,
explaining the strong interest has been created to tell the story in various formats.

So far, there is an agreement for a book about the rescue, a reality show about mining and a Discovery Channel
special about the series. The special of ABC News Wednesday about the rescue of 33 miners, who spent 69 days
trapped underground, generated the highest ratings of the chain in the past 10 months.

"I can imagine other actors and hovering around it, seeking to ensure these stories," said Clark Bunting, president
and CEO of Discovery. The Latin American affiliate of the chain is producing "Rescued: The history of the mine
in Chile", which is scheduled to transmit on 28 October.

Bunting described how uplifting that miners created their own underground society and kept quiet.

The chain said Spike TV has commissioned a series of 10 episodes, "Coal" (Coal), which is scheduled for
broadcast early next year. "Coal" is based on a West Virginia town and explore the mining through the eyes of
mine owners and miners. Thom Beers, the producer behind "Deadliest Catch" and "Ice Road Truckers", is in
charge of the series.

Transworld Publishers announced that it will publish "The 33" (The 33), by journalist Jonathan Franklin, who has
lived in Chile 16 years and who covered the story of redemption. Still looking for a U.S. publisher.

The writer-producer Lionel Chetwynd, an Oscar nominated for his screenplay of "The Apprenticeship of Duddy
Kravitz" and whose television credits include "Kissinger and Nixon" and "Ike: Countdown to D-Day," said assume
that we are talking of various projects in Hollywood.

"Television is a means of rapid response," Chetwynd said by telephone. "In fact, I'll call my agent when you hang
up this call."

With the film business is essentially evaporating week, producers of reality shows would be more appropriate to
address the history, Chetwynd said, that would keep it fresh. Hallmark Channel said its representatives found the
story interesting, but the cable network and is committed to producing other films till the end of 2011.

The veteran television writer Jeffrey Stepakoff said that if someone offered to work on this story, "I think a few
seconds and say yes."

The miners themselves are not sufficient for the story, said Stepakoff, drama professor at Kennesaw State
University in Georgia. He said that also would focus on their families and in the technological race to get them to
the surface.

"I would like to recreate the tension felt when I heard the story," he said.

Measuring traffic on the TV and the Internet showed interest in the news. At the time the first mineral surfaced on
Tuesday night, 10.6 million people were watching CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, more than four times
the audience that these channels are together at that time, said Nielsen Co .

Facebook, the leading social networking site in the world, saw an increase in the number of people discussing the
story that emerged when the first miner. The site's internal statistics show that users in the United States wrote
about the rescue of a maximum of 1.265 times per minute and in Chile to 478 times per minute.

Twitter users also expressed their excitement.

"My eyes fill with tears every time one of the miners out and embracing his family!" Wrote the singer and actress
Hilary Duff.

"Miracles exist," said Justin Bieber.

The actor Michael Caine called it "the happiest time I've seen on TV."

These miners can expect to profit from their stories, including journalists, but television networks in the U.S. have
restrictions that prohibit paying for an interview, frequently evade paying for travel or photo rights of families.

"Right now is a real mess with literally thousands of media looking for interviews," said Jim Bell, executive
producer of "Today" show on NBC.

The main target of interviews is undoubtedly the mining Yonni Barrios, whose lover he appeared to receive when
he left the mine while his wife stayed home.

Both the New York Daily News and the Post have devoted to Barrios its front page on Thursday. "It's all mine,"
wrote the Post.

The story has even inspired musicians. The rock band the Pixies sang in Santiago de Chile on Wednesday, 33
songs, one for each miner. It was the longest concert you've given the group, said the singer Black Francis.

"We found out five minutes before going on stage that all the miners had left safely to the surface," he said. "This
was definitely one of the most significant dates we have given."

Stories of gold, locked

The top three miners discharged from hospital on Friday to enjoy his new life as national heroes, while known
versions of the 33 agreed to silence for now the details of her ordeal to be divided equitably the benefits of his
sudden stardom.

That would explain why none have spoken at length or revealed dramatic details of the 69 days trapped 700 meters
below the Atacama Desert.

Ximena Reygadas Reygadas daughter of Omar, an electrician of 56 years, was on Friday in an interview that his
father had said hours earlier that the miners decided to split all the profits.

"We said all the money they earn from interviews and television outlets and all kinds of things are going to be
distributed among the miners themselves," said Ximena. "He said we can not say things to the media without their
permission. He said that they have to decide what we can say to the media."

Hundreds of reporters left the mine and went down to this dusty regional capital yesterday after the world saw
amazed her rescue virtually flawless through a narrow tunnel dug in a month.

A mine foreman San José, close to several of the miners, told the Associated Press that they hired an accountant to
keep track of public appearances and income distribution.

"Most of all I think is on the subject of charging for everything that has shown in his personal life, his epic. So,
they made sure," said Pablo Ramírez.

Ramirez, 29, had descended into the bowels of the mine immediately after the collapse of August 5, in a vain
attempt to reach their trapped comrades.

"They will be very jealous of the subject and will talk as a group," he added.