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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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