Bodies

Good to see that Jed Mercurio’s back in the medical TV saddle. We have a TV series based around his novel, Bodies, to look forward to.
Some years ago, Mercurio wrote Cardiac Arrest, a series that I really enjoyed at the time. Based on the experiences during the first years of a junior doctor in a central Glasgow hospital, it painted a somewhat less rosy picture of hospital life than you’d get in ER. Bodies, the novel, continued many of those themes, and undoubtedly this will be a different look at hospital life compared with Casualty and Holby City.
I note that it’s going out on BBC3 first, with a later transfer to BBC2. I’m a little apprehensive about this since BBC3 dramas haven’t exactly overwhelmed me recently. There’s certainly creativity in the comedy department, but I’m still awaiting the first killer drama series from them (and showing next week’s episode of Spooks or 24 don’t count).


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