From: junk@junk.com   
      
   "Jerry Kohl"  wrote in message   
   news:3F9D6A86.D490E940@comcast.net...   
   > Geoff Lane wrote:   
   >   
   > > Jerry Kohl  wrote:   
   > > > tubs wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > > Any one any idea why this prog has been shunted into a late night   
   > > > > Sunday slot? From a 9pm Thursday slot? It is good so I cannot   
   > > > > unerstand why?   
   > >   
   > > > ITV's usual reason is poor ratings, which of course do not necessarily   
   > > > reflect the quality of the programme.   
   > >   
   > > That's the reason.  If an ITV prime time program doesn't attract an   
   audience   
   > > approaching 10M it gets dumped. News and current affairs are exempt.   
   >   
   > I've not seen Sweet Medicine (living as I do a third of the way around the   
   > globe from the nearest ITV transmitter, so it may be a few months before   
   the   
   > signal gets this far), but it was being flogged by the producers as a   
   > replacement for Peak Practice, dumped after 12 seasons due presumably to   
   > falling audience figures. To what degree does Sweet Medicine fulfill this   
   > promise to be a rejuvinated Peak Practice, in what ways does it fail to   
   carry   
   > on in the format, and to what degree is it an animal of a different   
   stripe?   
      
   It is similar in that it's another programme about doctors and patients in   
   the Peak District of Derbyshire.   
      
   However it's different in that:   
      
   - There doesn't seem the same sense of location as there was in Peak   
   Practice: it could be set in any small town or large village anywhere in the   
   country   
      
   - It concentrates much more on the lives (on and off-duty) of the doctors (a   
   husband and wife who move away from London to take over the husband's   
   father's practice after his death; the husband's cousin and uncle are also   
   doctors, the cousin in the same practice and the uncle as a consultant in a   
   local hospital). The dead doctor's widow (played admirably by Patricia   
   Hodge) is a real matriarchal battleaxe who rules her sons with a rod of   
   iron.   
      
   See http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0377266/combined for details.   
      
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