Daytime television is the pit in which every untalented cretin that ever insulted a combination of our senses is flung and forced upon us in waves of repetitive, badly written nonsense. This aside, there is the occasional gem that appears in this mist of dirge and one of these is Doctors.
For those who aren't University students Doctors is a soap based in the Midlands at a Uni surgery in the fictional town of Leatherbridge and is shown Monday to Friday at lunchtime. It's location in a doctor's surgery allows the writers to create entertaining semi-permanent and cameo characters which give more variety than watching the same people sleep with each other in mainstays of misery Coronation Street and Eastenders, and the characters who do hold major parts actually hold some joy in their lives which no doubt cheers the viewers up after the BBC news.
It's crap yes, but it's enjoyable crap which is surprisingly well acted and well written considering its budget compared to the bigger shows in this genre of television and the creators aren't afraid to take risks, stepping away from the copycat nature of soaps and gently scratching the surface of bigger issues.
So there you have it: a British soap that interjects some humour into proceedings, and is of a higher quality than any of the Aussie imports. It's funny, quirky and a brilliant little guilty pleasure that shows it's not all affairs, murder and tram crashes.
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