Combat Hospital

Combat Hospital
Intertitle from the pilot
Also known as	'The Hot Zone'
Genre	Medical drama
Created by	Jinder Oujla-Chalmers Daniel Petrie, Jr. Douglas Steinberg
Starring	Deborah Kara Unger Michelle Borth Elias Koteas Terry Chen Arnold Pinnock Luke Mably Ali Kazmi
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	Daniel Petrie Jr. Jennifer Kawaja Julia Sereny Gub Neal Justin Thomson-Glover Patrick Irwin Simon Vaughan
Running time	42 minutes
Production company(s)	Artists Studio Lookout Point Sienna Films Shaw Media
Distributor	Sony Pictures Television
Release
Original network	Global ABC
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	21 June – 6 September 2011
External links
Website

Combat Hospital was a Canadian medical drama television series, filmed in Toronto, that debuted on Global in Canada on 21 June 2011. In the United States, it aired on ABC. Its final episode was broadcast on 6 September 2011. The series was known for a time by the working title The Hot Zone before reverting to its previous title, Combat Hospital.

ABC announced 24 October 2011 that it would not be renewing Combat Hospital for a second season. On 16 December 2011, Shaw Media confirmed that Combat Hospital would not be renewed for another season due to their inability to find a new broadcast partner after ABC opted not to continue with the series earlier that fall.

Set in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2006, the series revolves around the life and work of doctors and nurses from the International Security Assistance Force, specifically Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and other allied countries at a military hospital.

Jinder Oujla-Chalmers came up with the concept for Combat Hospital in 2008 and with Douglas Steinberg pitched the show to Canwest (now Shaw Media). After the show was picked up for development Oujla-Chalmers travelled to Afghanistan to conduct first-hand research at a small, forward-deployed military hospital. Oujla-Chalmers was able to use real images taken during the visit and stories heard from medical personnel to add realism to the show. Oujla-Chalmers and Steinberg brought the show to Sienna Films who agreed to produce it and set up funding as a Canadian-British co-production with Artists Studio and Lookout Point of the UK.

Canwest announced on 9 July 2010 that Combat Hospital was slated for production in the 2011–12 season. The budget for the first season was reported to be $2 million per episode. During pre-production Morocco was considered as a possible location for filming the series. Production on the series began in March 2011. The series is filmed at the former Consumers Glass factory in Etobicoke, Ontario. The property has been converted into a 17,187 square metre indoor/outdoor set that recreates portions of the NATO Role 3 Hospital at Kandahar Airfield and its surroundings. Filming was scheduled to continue through 27 July 2011. Post-production work is done in London.Combat Hospital is a production of Sienna Films of Canada, Artists Studio of Wales, and Lookout Point of England.Daniel Petrie, Jr. is the showrunner. The first season has 13 episodes.