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Doctor Rachel Clarke and ex-junior doctors Jed Mercurio and Prasanna Puwanarajah have teamed up to make Covid drama Breathtaking, here’s the trailer.

It is perhaps no surprise that following the most tumultuous, traumatic time in our recent history, writers quickly opened Final Draft and began to try to make some sense of it all.

Jack Thorne’s astonishingly powerful film Help, which starred Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham, shone a light on the brutal reality or running a care home during the pandemic.

Michael Winterbottom and Keiron Quirke aimed their anger at the political side of things, with Kenneth Branagh playing Boris Johnson in mini series This England, while writer Stephen Knight and director Doug Liman took a more lighthearted approach with comedy drama Lockdown, which saw Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor stage a diamond heist in Harrods.

Jed Mercurio is no stranger to medical dramas, drawing on his...

Exclusive: Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio has penned an ITV drama about a doctor in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic starring Joanne Froggatt.

Mercurio co-wrote Breathtaking with Rachel Clarke, the author of the 2021 novel that the show is based on, and Prasanna Puwanarajah, who played Martin Bashir in The Crown Season 5. All three are qualified doctors.

Filming wrapped quietly earlier this year in Belfast.

Breathtaking is based on Clarke’s unflinching memoir having looked after the most gravely unwell patients in the early days of the pandemic. Amid the tensions, fatigue and rising death toll, she witnessed the courage of patients and NHS staff alike in conditions of unprecedented adversity.

Golden Globe-winner Froggatt, who most recently starred in James Graham’s BBC drama Sherwood, played lead Dr Abbey Henderson and Craig Viveiros (The War of the Worlds) was director.

“Everyone has felt privileged to dramatise Rachel Clarke...

You’ve got your Casualty and Doctors – medical soaps that have been around forever and will hopefully stay around forever to reliably entertain, educate and break in the stars of tomorrow. Next, there are your factual medical shows of questionable taste – Embarrassing Bodies, 101 Things Removed From the Human Body and other fleshlump-zoo tours that’d put anybody off their dinner.

And then there are the following – quality 21st century hospital dramas, documentaries and comedies, all of which present their unique take on the world of medicine. Leave your own recommendations below.

Call the Midwife

Watch on: BBC One and BBC iPlayer (UK); PBS Masterpiece (US)

If you know, you know. And if you don’t know, then you haven’t been paying attention. There’s a popular misconception that BBC One’s long-running Sunday night drama Call the Midwife is a sickly sweet, rose-tinted, tweer-than-twee nostalgia-fest. Nuns on bicycles! Cockneys with hearts of gold!

This list applies to UK streaming services

When I find myself in times of trouble/Streaming channels come to me/Speaking words of wisdom/ Watch TV/Watch TV-eeee/Watch TV-eeee/There will be an answer: watch TV (repeat to fade).

Go on, do it, it’s good advice – we all need a bit of escapism now and then. All of the below are British dramas currently available on UK streaming services, some free-to-air, some subscriber-only, some short, some long, some old favourites and some new arrivals, all in pleasing alphabetical order.

We’ll keep this list updated as new series are added and taken away. If you’ve children to entertain, then here’s our list of the top kids’ shows currently available on UK streaming services, and if you’re in need of a laugh, here’s our collection of the best British comedy TV shows. Sorted.

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Jed Mercurio and Jimmy Mulville’s Htm Television has signed a multi-year first-look deal with 20th Television.

Mercurio’s latest series, “Bodyguard” and “Line of Duty,” have both broke ratings records for UK television drama. His other credits include “Bodies,” “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” “Critical,” “Strike Back,” “The Grimleys,” and “Cardiac Arrest.” Mulville is known for his work on shows like “Whose Line is it Anyway?” “Episodes” starring Matt LeBlanc, “Flack” starring Anna Paquin, “Kate & Koji” starring Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola, and the hit Channel 4 comedy “Derry Girls.”

“We are huge fans of Jed and Jimmy’s work at this studio, from Jed’s “Line of Duty” and “Bodyguard” to Jimmy’s “Episodes” and “Whose Line…?,” so we jumped at the chance to be in business with their prolific Htm Television,” said Karey Burke, president of 20th TV. “These guys are artists at the top of their games...

On the 22nd of July 2005, the day after a series of failed terrorist bombing attempts in the UK capital and a fortnight after fifty-two people had been killed in the London Underground bombings, a Metropolitan Police surveillance team misidentified Brazilian electrician Jean-Charles de Menezes as a fugitive terrorist and fatally shot him as he entered Stockwell Tube Station.

The aftermath of de Menezes’ death, the circumstances of which were the subject of intense press speculation in the run up to a 2008 inquest that resulted in no criminal prosecution for the officers involved, caught the imagination of screenwriter Jed Mercurio.

Previously the creator of Cardiac Arrest and Bodies, a pair of TV dramas that exposed troubling aspects of the modern public health service, Mercurio would use a fictional version of the de Menezes shooting as the way in to a drama that would give UK police procedure the same treatment. When policing goes tragically wrong,...

A Deadly Place – 10 Frightening Films is currently available from Mill Creek Entertainment. Ordering information can be found Here

Terror Lurks Around Every Corner !

Encapsulating all the frights you’ve been thirsting for, this 10-film thrill fest includes everything from hauntings and creatures to giant monsters and serial killers. In A Deadly Place collection, there’s no way out once you enter!

Fred Ward, Leslie Nielsen, and John Saxon are among these films’ stars.

Here’s the line-up of movies in this set:

Cardiac Arrest

Day of the Animals

Grim

Tunnels

Dead Hate the Living

Don’t Go in the House

Deadly Instincts

With Friends Like These

You’re Driving Me Crazy

Shrunken Heads

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Bodyguard and Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio is to give a keynote session at the Banff World Media Festival in June.

The British writer and producer will take part in an exclusive In Conversation With address as the Rocky Mountains-set conference celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Mercurio will speak on Monday June 10 at the event, which runs 9-12 June at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Marking his first North American speaking engagement, he will discuss his work as a showrunner and his recent BBC drama hits. He will also touch on previous series including Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Critical, Strike Back, Bodies, The Grimleys and Cardiac Arrest.

He is the latest A-list name to take part in the Canadian event with DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg also giving a keynote speech. Katzenberg, who is currently Managing Partner of WndrCo and Chairman and Founder of Quibi, will speak on Sunday,...

The King of Pop. Mj. Jacko. Michael Jackson. The 50-year-old entertainment icon died early Thursday afternoon at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he had been taken after suffering full cardiac arrest. Though reports were slow to reach media outlets (TMZ was the first to report the news), it's now known that Jackson was reportedly unconscious upon arriving at the hospital (via Reuters). Doctors were unable to revive him. And while his life has now ended, in the 50 years prior, Michael Jackson ascended from child star to megastar to king. Jackson is the epitome of the modern-day multi-media megastar. Best known for his illustrious music career where he wailed and moon-walked his way to over 750 million records sold and 13 Grammy Awards, Jackson also had a long-standing film career. From his breakout performance in Sidney Lumet's The Wiz where he played the innocent Scarecrow to his epic music ...

A new updated news has been brought forth by Life and Style concerning the cause of Michael Jackson's death. The publication claims a source close to the late music performer has confirmed that he consumed a cocktail of up to seven prescription drugs in the past few months which might cause him suffering cardiac arrest that then led to his death on Thursday, June 25.

Among the prescription medications that he consumed were anti-anxiety drugs Xanax, Zoloft and painkiller Demerol, says the source. It is suspected that Michael took an overdose of those drugs on Thursday morning, which led to his suspected respiratory and cardiac arrest.

Brian Oxman, lawyer for the Jacksons, chimes in that Michael might have had trouble with prescription drugs as he was preparing for his upcoming London show. "This was something which I feared and something which I warned about," Brian is quoted as telling CNN.

Chicago – Michael Jackson, who is widely regarded as the king of pop music, is dead at the age of 50, the Los Angeles Times confirmed on Thursday.

Michael Jackson died at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009.

Photo credit: Google Images The news comes on the same day as Farrah Fawcett’s death. She starred in TV’s “Charlie’s Angels” and died on Thursday of cancer at the age of 62.

While the news of Michael Jackson’s death – which was first discussed by celebrity gossip source TMZ – was percolating across the world, the reaction from many people everywhere was initial confusion.

While some thought he was just hospitalized, others believed he was pronounced dead following a cardiac arrest. After TMZ’s discussion, it was the Los Angeles Times that confirmed the death and set the record straight.

At the time of the confusion, most of the Chicago film critics were in...

Los Angeles, California (X17online) - Michael Jackson arrived at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles at 1:10pm this afternoon after reportedly suffering from cardiac arrest approximately two hours ago. Capt. Steve Ruda said paramedics responded to a call at Jackson's home around 12:26 p.m. He was not breathing when they arrived. The paramedics performed CPR and took him to UCLA Medical Center, according to The Los Angeles Times. Family members say Jackson is reportedly in "very bad shape." Two SUVs followed Jackson's ambulance to the hospital and we're told by eyewitnesses that about ten people emerged from the two cars when they arrived at the hospital. An X17 photographer on the scene tells us that when he attempted to snap shots at the hospital, he was immediately accosted by one of Michael's bodyguards who grabbed him by the throat and pushed him away, yelling for him to "get away!

Michael Jackson, the onetime child star turned King of Pop, died in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest in his home. He was 50 years old. Jackson was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center not far from his rental mansion in the Holmby Hills. The cause of death wasn't known. An autopsy is set for Friday. "It's a very sad day for all of us," Jackson's manager, Frank Dileo, tells People. " It's such a terrible shame. He was my friend." As for Jackson's three children - Blanket, 7, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael,...

Michael Jackson has been rushed to UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic Capt. Steve Ruda said paramedics responded to a call at Jackson's home around 12:26 p.m. Michael was not breathing when they arrived. The parademics performed CPR and took him to UCLA Medical Center, Ruda told The Los Angeles Times. Two SUVs filled with about ten people were following Jackson's ambulance. According to an X17, "There were more than 10 bodyguards or members of Michael's entourage that arrived at the hospital just after 1 pm, after following the ambulance...

Usher's wife is recovering from cardiac arrest, which she suffered just before undergoing plastic surgery last week.

Tameka Foster entered a hospital in Sao Paolo, Brazil, last Friday for a liposuction procedure. She suffered a cardiac arrest while getting anesthetized for the surgery, "but was revived in less than a minute by heart massage," Ellen Dastry, a spokeswoman for plastic surgeon Silvio Sterman, told the Associated Press. Foster was then induced into a coma and taken to the intensive-care unit — protocol Dastry said is "absolutely normal" and meant to "avoid unnecessary complications."

Later the same day, Foster was moved to a reportedly better-equipped hospital in Sao Paolo, where she is recovering. No further details have been disclosed.

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We're finally getting some new information surrounding Usher's wife Tameka Fosters recent plastic surgery scare. According to new reports, Foster suffered a cardiac arrest during a liposuction procedure. Usher had to pull out of Grammy weekend so he can rush to Brazil to be by his wife's side after she suffered major complications from what his rep called "routine surgery." Last we checked there was nothing "routine" about lipo! Brazilian news agency G1 and Eonline.com reports Usher's wife was admitted to intensive care at the Sirio-Libanes Hospital on Friday following complications as she was...