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The series Doctors and Nurses, was filmed at Lenton
Lane TV studios in Nottingham.
The series
The show's big star Adrian Edmondson stars as Dr Roy Glover - who's
on a mission to rid the Isle of Wight of all sprains, broken bones
and illness.
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| Ade Edmondson
and Madhav Sharma go head to head. |
The series centres on the hate-love relationship
between two orthopaedic surgeons: Roy who believes the NHS can be
saved; and George Banatwala (played by Madhav Sharma), a technically
gifted but compassionately challenged empire-builder with a keen
interest in keeping the waiting lists as long as possible to enhance
his private work.
Each week Roy is faced with an impossible task,
but always has a plan B to fall back on.
He got into medicine against all odds and is determined
to make things better. Only three things stand in his way: his own
limitations, the impossibility of the task, and George!
About the writers
Doctors and Nurses was written by Nigel Smith and Phil Hammond.
A doctor by profession, Phil Hammond is also an
established writer, broadcaster and comedian.
He qualified as a GP in 1991, has written Private
Eye's medical column since 1992, and presented five series of BBC
Two's Trust Me I'm a Doctor.
He also completed his first solo stand-up tour
in summer 2003, appearing at Nottingham's Lakeside Arts Centre.
Doctors and Nurses is his first sitcom. Not only
that, he makes his acting debut in episode three as a neuro-surgeon.
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| Susan Earl
stars as Tara in Doctors and Nurses. |
Phil says: "The sitcom offered
the opportunity to bring to life issues I care passionately about
but in a fictional way. I soon realised that writing a sitcom is
much harder than doing stand-up comedy though!"
The show also stars Nottingham's very own Susan Earl. She has recently
appeared in adverts with Martin Kemp and also starred opposite The
Office's Martin Freeman in 'Hardware'.
Read
our interview with Susan Earl >>
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