The Royal Today (2008)

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 50 episodes

Rated

C8

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This British medical drama follows a hospital day by day in real time with a new cast of doctors and patients. Each half-hour episode covers the events of a single day at the same hospital featured in the original 1960s series The Royal.

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What happens

The Royal Today is a British medical drama, and a spin-off of the similarly themed drama The Royal. The concept is that, while The Royal is set in the late 1960s, The Royal Today featured the same hospital in the present day, with a new set of characters working in the same location. Each episode follows the events of a single day, and the show was broadcast daily (except for the weekends), so the series could be said to progress in real time. The first series of 50 half-hour episodes began on 7 January 2008 on the ITV network airing from 4 pm to 4:30 pm. Although there were a number of running storylines, the series generally eschewed the use of cliffhangers. The series was axed in March 2008 after poor ratings – an average of 1.175 million viewers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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