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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: As the BBC kills it off after 25 years... come on Amazon, Save Our Doctors!
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Typical of the great actor Timothy West that his last performance was not in some big-budget movie or arty stage show, but in a workaday TV episode.
Typical of the great actor Timothy West that his last performance was not in some big-budget movie or arty stage show, but in a workaday TV episode — and on the very day his death was announced. With Doctors being struck off the schedules as part of a BBC cost-cutting exercise (original drama is too expensive compared to quiz shows and panel games), a grand TV tradition stretching back to the 1960s is over. Even on the last day, this was apparent: one moment, Ruhma was being held at knifepoint by a deranged conspiracy theorist; the next, she and an expectant mother were barricaded into a side room, keeping the loony at bay with a broom.
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