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Screenwriter Slams “Disastrous” Decision To Axe Long-Running BBC Medical Drama ‘Doctors’


The medical soap opera will air its final episode in December 2024 after 24 years.

Medical soap opera Doctors will air its final episode in December after 24 years, with the BBC citing rising production costs and the need to invest in other programs for the cancellation. “There is no other show in the UK industry that offers such variety of storytelling – everything from high drama and tragedy, to farce, dream sequences, stand-alone single plays, themed weeks on important subjects, you name it, we wrote it.” Big names to cut their teeth on the show, based in the UK’s Midlands, include Eddie Redmayne, Nicholas Hoult and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

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