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This article is about medical drama. For the hospital in Saskatoon, see Saskatoon City Hospital. For the historic hospital in New York, see City Hospital (Roosevelt Island, New York).
City Hospital was a medical drama series that aired on the CBS television network Tuesday nights from 1951 through 1953. The show starred Anne Burr as Dr. Kate Morrow and Mel Ruick as Dr. Barton Crane.
City Hospital was a medical documentary television series that aired on BBC1, the United Kingdom's National Network from 2002 till 2007. It ran over nine series with over 360 hours of film broadcast every weekday from 10 am.
It was broadcast live from London's flagship NHS Health Trust - Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital and The Princess Anne Maternity Hospital in Southampton. The show followed real patients and staff and featured daily live-to-air footage of actual surgical operations, as they were being performed.
A ratings success, the final series commanded a quarter of all the UK television audience at 10am every weekday - over a million viewers daily.
The programme had unprecedented BBC Audience Appreciation (AI) figures for a daytime broadcast. When viewers were asked which programme they would put at the top of all the BBC programmes they had watched that week, City Hospital consistently scored highly. During the last week of programmes, the AI figure was an almost unheard of 88%. The BBC reported: "Alongside the usual big hitters, the dramas and US imports, the daytime programme City Hospital always wins through with high AIs."
Presenters included Nadia Sawalha, Matt Baker[disambiguation needed
], Ainsley Harriott, Andi Peters, Nick Knowles, Sian Williams, Roger Black and Matthew Kelly.Numerous guests presenters, including celebrities, actors and musicians made cameo appearances.
External links
[1] City Hospital (BBC)
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