The Good Karma Hospital
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| The Good Karma Hospital | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Dan Sefton |
| Starring | |
| Composer | Ben Foster |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Frith Tiplady Iona Vrolyk Will Gould |
| Producer | Stephen Smallwood |
| Cinematography | Michael Snyman |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company | Tiger Aspect Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 5 February 2017 – present |
The Good Karma Hospital is a medical drama series produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for ITV about a disillusioned doctor, Ruby Walker, who heads for South India hoping to make a fresh start. Stars Amanda Redman, Amrita Acharia, James Floyd, and Neil Morrissey.[1] The series is shot in Unawatuna in southern Sri Lanka.[2]
The Good Karma Hospital has been recommissioned for a second series to air in 2018, with filming starting in August 2017.[3][4][5]
Plot
A medical drama about a junior doctor, Ruby Walker, who becomes disillusioned with her life and broken relationship, decides to leave the UK. Seeing an advertisement for a hospital job in South India, she travels there hoping to make a fresh start and finds herself working at the Good Karma Hospital, an under-resourced and overworked cottage hospital run by an eccentric English expat, Dr Lydia Fonseca.
Cast and characters
- Amanda Redman as Dr Lydia Fonseca
- Amrita Acharia as Dr Ruby Walker
- James Floyd as Dr Gabriel Varma
- Neil Morrissey as Greg McConnell
- Darshan Jariwala as Dr Ram Nair
- Sagar Radia as AJ Nair
- Nimmi Harasgama as Marie Rodriguez
- Phyllis Logan as Maggie Smart
- Phillip Jackson as Paul Smart
Series overview
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 6 | 5 February 2017 | 12 March 2017 | |
| 2 | TBA | 2018 | 2018 | |
Episodes
Series 1 (2017)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title [6] | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [7] | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Episode One" | Bill Eagles | Dan Sefton | 5 February 2017 | 8.13 | |
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Ruby Walker, a junior doctor working in England, decides she has had enough of working in the UK for the NHS and decides to head over to South India in search of a fresh start for her career. She finds herself at The Good Karma Hospital, run by Dr Lydia Fonseca – a hospital which is understaffed, underfunded, yet full of patients requiring treatment. Ruby begins her shift treating a pregnant woman with a difficult, yet successful pregnancy. She is proud, until two brothers are admitted with fatal stab wounds and die under her care. Questioning her clinical abilities, Ruby considers quitting already, but Lydia manages to quickly persuade her to stay. At the same time Lydia is not amused when her on-off boyfriend, Greg McConnell, donates an ambulance to her hospital with an advertisement for his bar adorned with a large picture of her face. | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Episode Two" | Bill Eagles | Dan Sefton | 12 February 2017 | 8.02 | |
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Ruby visits a local school to give a class of young schoolchildren a check-up. While she is there, she is asked on a date by teacher Anton Karkik, however she rejects. At the hospital, a naked young man with amnesia found washed up on the beach is admitted and treated by Lydia, who soon manages to get a name out of the man and learn a secret of his in the process. Meanwhile, Dr Gabriel Varma treats a snake-charmer who has been bitten by a venomous snake. Gabriel is forced to ride his bike to another hospital to collect an anti-venom, but on the way back to the hospital, he crashes his bike. Despite this, he manages to get the anti-venom back to the hospital, saving his patient's life. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Episode Three"[8] | Bill Eagles | Nancy Harris | 19 February 2017 | 7.08 | |
| 4 | 4 | "Episode Four"[9] | Bill Eagles | Vinay Patel | 26 February 2017 | 7.30 | |
| 5 | 5 | "Episode Five"[10] | Jon Wright | Dan Sefton | 5 March 2017 | 7.07 | |
| 6 | 6 | "Episode Six"[11] | Jon Wright | Dan Sefton | 12 March 2017 | 6.71 | |
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After the return of Ruby's ex-boyfriend, he proposes to see India with him. She accepts, but on the way with the bus ride they notice that another bus in front of them has been tilted. In the meantime Maggie's condition takes a turn for the worst and her husband Paul makes the decision to contact their daughter. In the end she dies a most peaceful death watching baby-turtles crawling into the ocean, while laying on a sunbed with her husband and daughter. Lydia tells everyone that she and Greg are in a relationship. And Ruby's ex-boyfriend returns home to England, while she realizes that India might already be her home. Which Gabriel is very happy about. | |||||||
DVD release
| Title | Number of discs | Year | Number of episodes | Release date (UK only) | |
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| Series 1 | 2 | 2017 | 6 | 20 March 2017 | |
References
- ^ "ITV Media - The Good Karma Hospital".
- ^ Template:Cite 'the 2nd episode was definitely filmed in Kerala, India'. web
- ^ http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a823311/itvs-the-good-karma-hospital-is-coming-back-for-a-second-series/
- ^ http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-orders-second-series-good-karma-hospital
- ^ http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-03-12/the-good-karma-hospital-is-coming-back-for-a-second-series-on-itv
- ^ "The Good Karma Hospital". Radio Times. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ "Weekly top 30 programmes". BARB. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- ^ "Series 1 – Episode 3". Radio Times. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ "Series 1 – Episode 4". Radio Times. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- ^ http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/fknqq2/the-good-karma-hospital--series-1-episode-5
- ^ http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/fkwssx/the-good-karma-hospital--series-1-episode-6