Re: Sweet Medicine

Martin Underwood wrote:

> "Jerry Kohl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I've not seen Sweet Medicine (living as I do a third of the way around the
> > globe from the nearest ITV transmitter, so it may be a few months before
> the
> > signal gets this far), but it was being flogged by the producers as a
> > replacement for Peak Practice, dumped after 12 seasons due presumably to
> > falling audience figures. To what degree does Sweet Medicine fulfill this
> > promise to be a rejuvinated Peak Practice, in what ways does it fail to
> carry
> > on in the format, and to what degree is it an animal of a different
> stripe?
>
> It is similar in that it's another programme about doctors and patients in
> the Peak District of Derbyshire.
>
> However it's different in that:
>
> - There doesn't seem the same sense of location as there was in Peak
> Practice: it could be set in any small town or large village anywhere in the
> country
>
> - It concentrates much more on the lives (on and off-duty) of the doctors (a
> husband and wife who move away from London to take over the husband's
> father's practice after his death; the husband's cousin and uncle are also
> doctors, the cousin in the same practice and the uncle as a consultant in a
> local hospital). The dead doctor's widow (played admirably by Patricia
> Hodge) is a real matriarchal battleaxe who rules her sons with a rod of
> iron.
>
> See http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0377266/combined for details.

Thank you very much.

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Jerry Kohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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