{"id":590,"date":"2004-02-17T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/02\/bodies\/"},"modified":"2004-02-17T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T16:00:17","slug":"bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good to see that Jed Mercurio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,7493,1149517,00.html\">back in the medical TV saddle<\/a>. We have a TV series based around his novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099422832\">Bodies<\/a>, to look forward to.<br \/>\nSome years ago, Mercurio wrote Cardiac Arrest, a series that I really enjoyed at the time. Based on the experiences during the first years of a junior doctor in a central Glasgow hospital, it painted a somewhat less rosy picture of hospital life than you&#8217;d get in ER. Bodies, the novel, continued many of those themes, and undoubtedly this will be a different look at hospital life compared with Casualty and Holby City.<br \/>\nI note that it&#8217;s going out on BBC3 first, with a later transfer to BBC2. I&#8217;m a little apprehensive about this since BBC3 dramas haven&#8217;t exactly overwhelmed me recently. There&#8217;s certainly creativity in the comedy department, but I&#8217;m still awaiting the first killer drama series from them (and showing next week&#8217;s episode of Spooks or 24 don&#8217;t count).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to see that Jed Mercurio&#8217;s back in the medical TV saddle. We have a TV series based around his novel, Bodies, to look forward to. Some years ago, Mercurio wrote Cardiac Arrest, a series that I really enjoyed at the time. Based on the experiences during the first years of a junior doctor in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}