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Doctors
Doctors Title.jpg
Doctors opening title card (2009–present)
Genre Medical soap opera
Created by Chris Murray
Written by Various
Directed by Various
Starring Present cast
Former cast
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 18
No. of episodes 3,363 (as of 2 June 2017)
Production
Executive producer(s) Mike Hobson (Since 2003)
(among others past and present)
Producer(s) Currently:
Peter Eryl Loyd
Mike Hobson
Sam Hill
Carol Harding
Sandra MacIver
Dawn Coulson
Caroline Slater
Location(s) BBC Birmingham
Camera setup Video, Multiple-camera setup
Running time 30 minutes
(With occasional longer episodes ranging from 30–60 minutes)
Release
Original network BBC One (2000–Present)
BBC HD (2009–2013)
BBC One HD (2010–present)
BBC Two (Episode 2943, 2978)
Picture format 16:9 576i (2000–present)
16:9 1080i (2009–Present)
Original release 26 March 2000 (2000-03-26) – Present
External links
Website www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mh9v

Doctors is a British medical soap opera which first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 26 March 2000.

Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined [in the programme] as being in the city of Birmingham, the soap follows the lives of the staff of both a Doctor's surgery and University Campus Surgery as well as their families and friends.

Doctors is produced by BBC Birmingham and is screened on BBC One, with the first episode broadcast on 26 March 2000. It was created by Chris Murray, with Mal Young developing it and Carson Black the original producer. The show has been shown at lunchtime since its inception, originally at 12.30pm as a lead-in to the BBC's One O'Clock News. After it was temporarily moved to allow for extended news coverage of the 11 September 2001 attacks, its regular slot changed to 2:10 pm, following directly after Neighbours, after ratings rose to a 25% audience share. When the BBC lost Neighbours to Channel 5 in January 2008, it moved into the Australian soap's old slot of 1:45pm. For a brief trial period in Summer 2000, selected episodes from the first series were shown on Fridays at 7 pm and from 16 February 2009, the show began transmitting in high definition on BBC HD at 4:00pm the same day.

Doctors was originally produced and broadcast in blocks of episodes, ranging from blocks of 40 to 130 episodes in the first three years. For example, from season five in 2002 until January 2007, Doctors took lengthy breaks in transmission over the Summer, usually for six weeks, to accommodate the length of transmission. However, the series' audience has developed and increased, prompting the BBC to commission Doctors as a year-round continuing series. Currently, the show breaks in the summer for the Wimbledon Tennis matches held for two weeks, broadcasting of the Olympic Games, Christmas and Easter period holidays and for bank holidays.


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