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Doctors and the trouble with the BBC

4 October 2024

3:30 PM

4 October 2024

3:30 PM

The BBC’s daytime soap Doctors will soon vanish from our screens after 24 years. But while the final episodes make for excruciatingly bad television, they are worth watching for a simple reason: they encapsulate everything that is wrong with modern television.

The BBC’s obsession with ramming progressive storylines down viewers’ throats is plain to see in each episode of Doctors.

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