From: jeromekohl@comcast.net   
      
   Martin Underwood wrote:   
      
   > "Jerry Kohl"  wrote in message   
   > news:3F9D6A86.D490E940@comcast.net...   
   > >   
   > > 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.   
      
   Thank you very much.   
      
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   Jerry Kohl    
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