‘Doctors’ BBC Soap Canceled After 23 Years Due to ‘Funding Challenges’
variety.comNaman Ramachandran There is no cure for “Doctors,” the long-running soap that has been canceled by the BBC after 23 years for financial reasons.
Created by Chris Murray, “Doctors” debuted in 2000 and followed the lives of the staff of a National Health Service doctor’s surgery and and a university campus surgery and the lives of their families and friends in the fictional town of Letherbridge in the U.K.’s West Midlands.
It has featured the likes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Eddie Redmayne, Sheridan Smith and Nicholas Hoult. “Doctors” stands canceled after 23 years, 24 seasons and 4,389 episodes.
It scored four BAFTA nominations, had numerous wins at the British Soap Awards and has also won gongs at the Royal Television Society and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain awards.
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