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ON DEMAND CHOICE: Medical dramas
Casualty is back on our screens tonight (BBC1, 8.25pm), but if you’d like to try a different medical drama, there are plenty available on demand – here’s our guide to some of the best…
ER (1994-2009) Brilliant in its early years and still must-see TV even after the departure of George Clooney in season five, ER remains the gold standard by which all other medical dramas are judged. All 4. Critical (2015) Jed Mercurio (Line Of Duty) took an experimental approach with this thrilling, short-lived drama for Sky, which unfolds in real time and stars
Lennie James as an ex-army trauma consultant (centre). Sky/now TV. House (2004-12) Hugh Laurie essentially plays Sherlock Holmes in a drama that gave him one bewildering medical mystery to solve after another. Amazon.
The Night Shift (2014-17) If you want a classic, soapy US drama in which heroic doctors are pitched against penny-pinching administrators, this is that show. Netflix. The Knick (2014-15) Steven Soderbergh directs a precisely styled drama, with Clive Owen as a pioneering, drug-addicted surgeon in NYC in 1900. Not for the squeamish. Sky/now TV.
Also try… Chicago Med (Sky/now TV), Doctors (iplayer), The Good Doctor (Sky/now TV), Grey’s Anatomy (Amazon, Sky/now TV), Monroe (Britbox), New Amsterdam (Amazon), Nurse Jackie (Sky/
Now TV), St Elsewhere (All 4). 10.10
6.10pm FILM The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Sci-fi adventure sequel, starring Jennifer Lawrence. FILM Bad Neighbours 2 Comedy, starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron. 10.50 Celebrity Gogglebox USA 9.00
7.25pm Four in a Bed The winner of
the competition is announced. 8.00 The Queen’s Lost Family 9.00 24 Hours in A&E
11.05 Father Ted 9.00 11.25
Tour de France Recycled
FILM City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold Comedy western sequel. FILM National Lampoon’s European Vacation Comedy sequel.
Fantastic Four Superhero adventure, starring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell.
Star Trek Sci-fi adventure, starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.
Kiss the Girls Thriller, starring
Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd.