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Medical drama

May 2021

  • WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 11/12/2018 - Programme Name: Call the Midwife S8 - TX: 25/12/2018 - Episode: Call The Midwife S8 - Christmas Special 2018 (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: ***EMBARGOED TILL 00:01 11TH DECEMBER 2018*** Mavis Hollier (BRONWYN JAMES), Nurse Lucille Anderson (LEONIE ELLIOTT) - (C) Neal Street Productions - Photographer: Laura Radford

    Second to nun: why Call the Midwife’s medical miracles are a joke

    The sheer number of rare conditions Dr Turner and the midwives of Nonnatus House diagnose would warrant a Nobel prize – and are making the series as silly as Midsomer Murders

March 2021

  • Grey’s Anatomy and my mental health

    Six hours, 25 minutes
    Grey's Anatomy: the TV show that has always been there for me

    Shonda Rhimes’s long-running medical drama is not exactly uplifting. But through grief, upheaval and despair, it has been the one thing I can always count on

October 2020

  • Programme Name: Casualty BTS 2020 - TX: 03/09/2020 - Episode: Casualty BTS 2020 (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Casualty Cast & Crew - (C) BBC - Photographer: Alistair Heap

    'Like walking into hell': Casualty and Holby City tap into the Covid crisis

    The last time Holby City made news was when it donated its ventilators to the NHS. Now, along with its sister show, its latest episodes feature topical coverage of a health system in peril

July 2020

  • Natasha Rothwell

    Remote controller
    Insecure's Natasha Rothwell: 'I was deeply obsessed with David Brent'

    The writer, producer and Insecure scene-stealer on reluctantly defecting to the US The Office, and why she’s itching to play a villain

September 2019

  • ER.

    ER at 25: a matter of life, death – and George Clooney

    In 1994, the doctors and nurses crashed through the doors of County General to save patient after bloody patient – and save the world from all the tedious TV that came before!

December 2017

  • Kathryn Newton as Amy March, Maya Hawke as Jo March, Willa Fitzgerald as Meg March and Annes Elwy as Beth March in the BBC adaptation of Little Women.

    From Call the Midwife to Little Women: meet the queen of the festive TV schedules

    Everyone loves a family show at this time of year. Heidi Thomas explains the key to writing great Christmas drama

November 2016

  • Black doctor looking at digital display in doctor's office

    Chips with Everything
    'Help! My doctor's a robot!': the future of medical tech – Chips with Everything podcast

    From 3D printed organs to the world’s first full-body transplant, we explore the future of tech in medicine with TV presenter and GP Dr Hilary Jones

March 2015

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    Careers in public services
    Call the Midwife: I advise the BBC drama on midwifery

  • Dr Leonard McCoy – Star Trek: The Original Series

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best TV medics

February 2015

  • Andrew Lancel and Helen Baxendale in the first series of Cardiac Arrest.

    Your next box set
    Cardiac Arrest – box set review: a shocking portrait of hospital life

    Line of Duty creator, Jed Mercurio, is back with new a medical drama, Critical. Will it measure up to his first in the genre, which astonished viewers with its tales of euthanasia, bullying and incompetence on the wards?
  • Sky 1's medical drama Critical

    TV and radio blog
    Can Jed Mercurio's Critical revive the medical drama?

    The heady days of ER are long gone, and hospital dramas have fallen from favour. Can Critical, starring Lennie James, breathe new life into the genre?
  • Dr Perry Cox, Scrubs

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best TV medics

    With Jed Mercurio’s real-time hospital drama Critical arriving on Sky1, we examine TV’s top doctors and nurses

October 2014

  • Clive Owen in The Knick

    Mark Lawson on television
    Steven Soderbergh's TV series The Knick is swanky and enjoyable but lacks bite

    Mark Lawson: The historical medical drama, which stars Clive Owen as a maverick surgeon, is well-done big-budget television, but does not utilise the director’s more subversive cinematic tricks

March 2014

  • Air ambulance An Hour to Save Your Life

    Emergency! Call the camera crew. How saving lives became prime-time gold

    From the antiseptic routine of the wards to the thrill of a roadside rescue, we can't seem to get enough of medical documentaries. Andrew Collins dissects our enduring fascination

November 2012

  • Brilliant but brutal: Hugh Laurie as Dr Gregory House in House.

    Six to watch
    Six to watch: TV medics

    Daniel Bettridge:'Bones' McCoy employed medical techniques on the Starship Enterprise yet to be used by the NHS, while Dr Harold Legg relied on a bedside manner and sturdy shoulder to treat patients in EastEnders. So who are your favourite small screen medics?

October 2012

  • House … You might not want to buy him a drink

    Natalie Haynes's TV detectives
    Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #18 – House

    Natalie Haynes: Technically he might not be a detective – but Hugh Laurie's modern-day Sherlock Holmes has all the hallmarks of a truly great television sleuth

July 2012

  • Holby City

    TV and radio blog
    24 Hours in A&E: what do NHS staff make of hospital soaps?

    The stars of Channel 4's 24 Hours in A&E review the latest episode of Holby City – and tell us how it scrubs up compared with NHS reality

February 2012

  • Linda Cardellini ER

    Media Monkey
    Hattie Jacques need not apply

    Media Monkey: A hospital in Sweden is looking to hire only 'TV-series hot' nurses

January 2012

  • Amieth in Junior Doctors

    TV review
    TV review: Junior Doctors – Your Life in Their Hands | Confessions of a Nurse

    Prefer to stay alive? Then here are the rookie doctors you might want to avoid, writes Sam Wollaston

November 2011

  • boston med cable girl lucy mangan

    Cable girl
    Cable girl: Boston Med

    Thought you'd had enough of hospital drama? Well think again…
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