Doctors

Shot on a budget of 30 pence per episode, Doctors tells the story of the most peculiar GP surgery in all the land. "The Mill", as the surgery is called, exists in what appears to be so kind of post-apocalyptic England - I say it's post-apocalyptic because I have never seen such a depopulated place as Letherbridge (the town/city where the programme is set) - the surgery receives a maximum of 2 patients per day (you don't need to make an appointment, just rock up and demand to see the doctor of your choice immediately), the university appears to have no students and, whenever they're in the towns only bar, no other customers or members of staff are ever visible. This lack of patients enables the doctors to go on mad missions every day, visiting their only patient's house and sorting out any problems that they may have. The programme is so unrealistic that one wonders why they bothered to base it around a GP surgery, something that most viewers would have plenty of experience of. Seriously, the plot lines are absolutely mental - I suspect that they are created by the producers scrawling words on pieces of card and swirling them around inside a tombola machine before picking a few out and using them to string together some semblance of a coherent story. For example, last Friday's episode was created by picking the words "angina", "Los Angeles", "Down's Sydrome" and "phone sex". Basically, it's mental and, as the TV in my work's reception is permanently set to BBC1, I'm forced to endure it 5 days a week.

This show is dire, the storylines are dire and the acting is dire. It's supposed to be set in the Midlands but the main character Nina seems to talk with the type of accent that you'd more likely find in the old black and white voice overs from the 1930s, strange compared to her days in Corination St as Les Battersby's annoying but on the side. I think she must have auditioned, was told it was for a doctors part and decided to put on the most ridiculous accent and she's been stuck with it since.

As for the doctor surgery, no wonder there's a doctor / GP crisis in this country if this show is anything to go by. They spend their day drinking tea and chatting rather than dealing with patients, of which there are very few ever in the surgery. They diagnose strangers on the street and seem to have endless numbers of walk in appointments.

It's terrible, it's like watching a slow motion car crash, you have to look and then wish you hadn't.

Damn this show for wasting Diane Keen's talents, the wonderful Diane has appeared in countless episodes of this nonsense, when she should have been gracing our screens in prime time, quality viewing.

I spent a week quite literally bed bound, and watched this show for a solid week, hoping to glimpse some kind of drama, or glimpse of reality.

What a truly awful watch, cheap, trashy, soulless TV, which surely ran out of mileage many years ago.

BBC please put this show out of its misery, clearly it costs three and nine to make an episode, but why not put the money aside for Father Brown, Mallorca Files or Shakespeare and Hathaway, shows people actually want to watch.

It's like a hideous student project.

Awful, 3/10.

Doctors is a completely lame, cheesy, weak and crap medical drama. It comes up at the soap awards, but this is not a soap opera it's a medical drama. If I could give this 0/10 I would have because it doesn't deserve anything higher because it's just completely crap. Medical Dramas such as the excellent Casualty and Holby City, have great characters, excellent storylines, drama, tension and are 1000000 times better than this stupid crap. Doctors is the worst medical drama ever.

The worst show I have ever had the misfortune of encountering. The acting is terrible, the characters are badly written and extremely annoying. I can't believe we are made to pay the licence fee to fund making this dross. I'm not sure how it has managed to remain on the air for 4 years so far!

I've been off work with an injury for a few.months now and have had the opportunity to sample the delights of daytime TV. I have caught this program on several occasions, it was on today as background noise while I was working on a cross-stitch. A new character has just been introduced as a temp and was instantly the most annoying and obnoxious character you could hope to encounter. Her voice and acting offended me so much I had to swear at the telly and turn over to a less annoying gardening program immediately.