Green Wing

Green Wing
Green Wing title screen
Genre	Serial-Sitcom
Created by	Victoria Pile
Starring	Sarah Alexander Sally Bretton Oliver Chris Olivia Colman Michelle Gomez Tamsin Greig Pippa Haywood Mark Heap Stephen Mangan Julian Rhind-Tutt Karl Theobald
Theme music composer	Trellis
Opening theme	"Last Week"
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	17 (+1 special and 2 shorts)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Peter Fincham
Producer(s)	Victoria Pile
Running time	Approx. 50–55 minutes, Special 90 minutes
Production company(s)	Talkback
Distributor	Fremantle Media
Release
Original network	Channel 4
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Original release	3 September 2004 – 4 January 2007
Chronology
Related shows	Campus
External links
Website

Green Wing is an award-winning British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Although set in a hospital, it uses no medical storylines; the action is produced by a series of soap opera-style twists and turns in the personal lives of the characters. They proceed through a series of often absurd sketch-like scenes, or by sequences where the film is slowed down or sped up, often emphasizing the body language of the characters. The show had eight writers. Two series were made by the Talkback Thames production company for Channel 4.

The series ran between 3 September 2004 and 19 May 2006. An episode was filmed with the second series, which was shown as a 90-minute-long special on 4 January 2007 in the UK, but was shown in Australia and Belgium on 29 December 2006.

Separate from the series, a sketch was made for Comic Relief and screened on 11 March 2005. Another was performed live at The Secret Policeman's Ball on 14 October 2006.

Green Wing's plot revolves around the lives of the staff of the East Hampton Hospital Trust, a fictional NHS hospital with staff ranging from the slightly unusual to the completely surreal.

The series begins with a new arrival, surgical registrar Caroline Todd (Tamsin Greig). Caroline suffers from constant embarrassment and bad luck, stumbling from one crisis to the next due to a mixture of her own neurosis, impulsiveness, and general misfortune. Caroline works alongside two other doctors: Guy Secretan (Stephen Mangan), an arrogant, half-Swiss, womanizing anaesthetist, and "Mac" Macartney (Julian Rhind-Tutt), a suave, desirably fashionable surgeon. It is not long before Caroline begins to develop feelings for both of them, though she is unsure as to which of the two she truly loves. Throughout the series, it becomes clear that Mac is her true love, but a range of misadventures prevent their relationship from flourishing. Other people Caroline meets include Martin Dear (Karl Theobald), a friendly house officer who is constantly failing his exams. He is unloved by his mother and is often bullied by Guy. Martin soon develops feelings for Caroline, and begins to fall in love with her. There is also Angela Hunter (Sarah Alexander), a seemingly-perfect, but irritating, senior registrar in paediatrics. Whilst Angela appears to mean well, Caroline cannot stand her and despite her best efforts to avoid Angela, she ends up as Caroline's lodger.

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