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Secrets And Lies (Doctors)
The second series of the British medical soap opera ''Doctors'' originally aired between 2 October 2000 and 1 June 2001. It consisted of 116 episodes, a large increase on the initial 41 episodes ordered for the first series. The series saw the departures of five regulars introduced in the first series, while Eva Fontaine joined the cast as Faith Walker. Cast The second series saw the returns of all but one of the original characters, the exception being Anoushka Flynn (Carli Norris), who departed in the first series finale. Dan (Joshua Prime), Helen Thompson's ( Corrinne Wicks) son, is reintroduced after a guest stint in the first series. Numerous recurring characters were also introduced to ''Doctors'' in the second series, including: Helen's husband Phil (Mark Adams) and daughter Claire (Tara Coleman-Starr), Mac McGuire's (Christopher Timothy) son Patrick ( Alan McKenna), Candy Williams (Leanne Wilson), a receptionist at Riverside and Faith Walker (Eva Fontaine), a talkative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Timothy
Christopher Timothy (born 14 October 1940) is a British actor and narrator. He is known for his roles as James Herriot in '' All Creatures Great and Small'', Mac McGuire in the BBC One daytime soap opera '' Doctors'' and Ted Murray in the BBC One primetime soap opera ''EastEnders''. Early life Timothy was born in Bala, Wales in 1940. He is the son of Anglican priest and BBC announcer Andrew Timothy and his first wife, Gwladys Marian ''nee'' Hailstone. When aged five Timothy moved with his family to south London, and at thirteen to Shrewsbury, where he attended Kingsland Grange Preparatory School and Priory Grammar School for Boys, and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. After leaving school and until his first paid acting engagements he worked in a Shrewsbury hat shop. Career Timothy's first professional stage engagement was in the play '' Chips with Everything'' in London and New York, in the role of a RAF military policeman for more than six months. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carli Norris
Carli Jo Norris (born 23 June 1974) is an English actress, known for her roles as Anoushka Flynn in '' Doctors'', Martha Kane in ''Hollyoaks'' and taking over the role of Belinda Peacock in ''EastEnders''. Career In June 1997, just before officially graduating from RADA, she was chosen to play Eliza Doolittle in '' Pygmalion'' at the Albery Theatre, directed by Ray Cooney and produced by Marc Sinden for Bill Kenwright. They also produced her next show, which was for the Peter Hall Company, when she appeared in the premiere and tour of Simon Gray's ''Just The Three of Us'' with Prunella Scales and Dinsdale Landen. On television, she first appeared as Alice McMahon in ''EastEnders''; the title character in Catherine Cookson's '' Tilly Trotter'' (1999); central characters in ''In Deep''; ''Grafters''; '' Roger Roger'' and '' The Mrs Bradley Mysteries'' as Prunella 'Plum' Fisher (2000). She was then cast in the BBC soap opera '' Doctors'' as Anoushka Flynn. She appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casualty (TV Series)
''Casualty'' (stylised as ''CASUAL+Y'' since 1997) is a British medical drama series broadcast on BBC One. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it first aired in the United Kingdom on 6 September 1986. The show was originally produced by Geraint Morris and has been a staple of British television ever since. ''Casualty'' is recognised as the longest-running primetime medical drama series in the world. Initially, ''Casualty'' aired during the autumn for its first six series, before increasing to 24 episodes annually by 1992. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the episode count expanded further, and by 2004, the series was running 48 episodes a year, with breaks around Christmas and major events like sporting competitions and the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2020, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television led to a temporary autumn break, but the series resumed its year-round schedule in the following two years. From 2023, ''Casualty'' introduced a regular autumn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Helm
Joanna Helm is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''Doctors (2000 TV series), Doctors'', portrayed by Sarah Manners. Joanna was introduced by series creator Mal Young as one of the nine original regular characters on the soap. She works as a receptionist at the fictional Riverside Medical Centre and is shown to be a bubbly, flirtatious and ditzy character. Joanna appears from the first episode until the end of the Doctors (series 2), second series after deciding to leave the series. Her exit storyline sees her leave Riverside after helping her grandmother, List of Doctors characters introduced in 2000#Jessie Helm, Jessie Helm (Marcia Ashton), die in a euthanasia pact. Manners opined that her character had the best storylines on ''Doctors'' during her tenure. Throughout her time on ''Doctors'', Joanna discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her, reads her grandmother's medical records to discover she is dying, helps her to die, develops a drug addiction from drugs stole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leanne Wilson
Leanne Wilson (born 27 December 1980) is a British television actress from Hitchin, England. Wilson grew up in Hitchin with her younger brother Matt, and sister, Olivia. She attended The Knights Templar School in Baldock, Hertfordshire. As a girl Wilson was determined to be an actress, and she studied Performing Arts at North Hertfordshire College and attended drama classes in the evenings and at weekends at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. Her big break came as Jess Brown in the Canadian sci-fi series '' Tracker'', appearing in 8 episodes between 2001–2002. She appeared in 20 episodes of the BBC day-time medical drama series ''Doctors'' in 2001 as Candy Williams and later appeared as nurse Claire Guildford in 90 episodes of the BBC One medical drama ''Casualty'' (2003–2005). She appeared in the BBC's ''Stars in Fast Cars'' as herself in 2005, presented an award at the Disney Awards and made a couple of appearances on GMTV. After leaving ''Casualty'' Wilson ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candy Williams
Claude "Candy" Williams (1929–1983) was an Aboriginal Australian musician, known for his country and western singing, often termed the Aboriginal country music. He was an active advocate for the advancement of his people, and also appeared in several television films and series. Early life Claude Williams was born on Erambie Mission, near Cowra, New South Wales, in 1929. Career In the 1960s, he appeared on a number of teen TV shows, and also toured with Jimmy Little's All Coloured Show. Williams had recorded a number of albums by 1963, and had also acted in two films made for television. One of these was ''Burst of Summer'', as Charlie (1961; based on the stage play by Oriel Gray), and he subsequently appeared in the television series ''Wandjina!'' and in two episodes of ''A Country Practice''. Williams' brother is musician Harry Williams, who sung in a musical duo with Wilga Munro (later his wife, known as Wilga Williams), and also with their band the Country Outcasts. Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MyLondon
MyLondon is a British news website operated by Reach plc, publishers of the ''Daily Mirror'', covering the wider London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ... region. MyLondon started publishing in December 2018 as a result of the online merging of two Reach publications: GetWestLondon, and the Croydon Advertiser. The website provides news and related content for the entire London region. , MyLondon has at least 70 editorial staff and receives about 6.7 million unique UK visitors each month. References External links * {{Official website, www.mylondon.news 2018 establishments in the United Kingdom British news websites Internet properties established in 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan McKenna (actor)
Alan McKenna is a British actor, known for his roles in ''Happy Valley (TV series), Happy Valley'', ''Save Me (British TV series), Save Me'', ''The Spanish Princess'', and ''Belle (2013 film), Belle'' as well as for playing Patrick McGuire (Doctors), Patrick McGuire in the BBC soap opera ''Doctors (2000 TV series), Doctors'', Tony Andrews in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', and Gus Malcolm in the ITV (TV network), ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale''. Personal Life McKenna attended John Ruskin College. His great aunt was Odette Hallowes (1912–1995), noted Allied heroine of World War II and immortalised in the film ''Odette (1950 film), Odette'', directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard. Career McKenna portrayed Patrick McGuire (Doctors), Patrick McGuire in the BBC soap opera ''Doctors (2000 TV series), Doctors'' on a recurring basis in 2000, 2003 and from 2010 to 2012. McKenna's other TV work includes Yorkshire Television's ''The Brides in the Bath' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick McGuire (Doctors)
''Doctors (2000 TV series), Doctors'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British Medical drama, medical soap opera which began broadcasting on BBC One on 26 March 2000. Set in the fictional West Midlands (region), West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff and patients of the Riverside Health Centre, a fictional NHS Doctor's office, doctor's surgery. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in ''Doctors'' in 2000, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the programme's executive producer, Mal Young. The original nine regular characters to be introduced in ''Doctors'' were Mac McGuire (Christopher Timothy), #Steve Rawlings, Steve Rawlings (Mark Frost (actor), Mark Frost), #Helen Thompson, Helen Thompson (Corrinne Wicks), #Rana Mistry, Rana Mistry (Akbar Kurtha), #Caroline Powers, Caroline Powers (Jacqueline Leonard), #Kate McGuire, Kate McGuire (Maggie Cronin), #Anoushka Flynn, Anoushka Flynn (Carli Norri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
