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Genre | Medical drama |
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Country of origin | Canada |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 30 |
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Sudbury, Ontario North Bay, Ontario |
Running time | 30 min. |
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Original network | TVOntario |
Original release | June 9, 2013 | – present
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Hard Rock Medical is a Canadian medical drama television series, which debuted on TVOntario in 2013 and APTN in 2014.
The series is filmed in Sudbury and North Bay, Ontario and revolves around a group of medical students attending the fictional Boréal Medical School, loosely based on the real-life Northern Ontario School of Medicine.
The series also airs on NITV, a channel operated by Australia's Special Broadcasting Service, as of 2014.
The series focuses primarily on a core group of eight medical students at Boréal Medical School: Nancy Siebolski (Angela Asher), Cameron Cahill (Jamie Spilchuk), Gary Frazier (Mark Coles Smith), Melanie Truscott (Melissa Jane Shaw), Charlie Rivière (Stéphane Paquette), Eva Malone (Andrea Menard), Gina Russo (Tamara Duarte) and Farida Farhisal (Rachelle Casseus).
The students are learning both a traditional medical curriculum, and how to cope with the unique demands of the school's focus on rural medicine, from professors and consultants including dean Raymond Dallaire (Christian Laurin), associate dean Fraser Healy (Patrick McKenna), doctor Louise Helvi (Danielle Bourgon) and First Nations elder Julie Cardinal (Kyra Harper).
Supporting and guest actors appearing over the course of the series include Jennifer Tocheri, Marc Bendavid, Michael Cleland, Derek Miller, Mike Bernier, Jim Calarco, Jeremy Cormier, Megan Fahlenbock, Ron Lea, Jennifer Matthies, Billy Merasty, Atticus Mitchell, Greg Odjick, Samantha Reed and Julian Robino. Many, but not all, supporting and guest actors in the series are local performers from Sudbury and North Bay.