Freddy Hammer (left) and Nicole Zadgan (right) are in surgery, Doctor Good.
When it comes to medical dramas, there seem to be very few good dramas.
Medical care can be regarded as a major theme of the TV series, but the momentum has weakened in recent years. The last glorious era was when NBC's high-rated drama "Emergency Room Story" (ER, 1994-2009), CBS's "Chicago Hope" (1994-2000) and Fox's top ten "House" (2004-2012) competed with each other.
Why are there fewer medical dramas?
"I don't think it's because of a lack of experimentation, it's that it's a lot harder than it seems to be to create a successful medical drama," said Carolyn Finger, senior vice president of Variety's business intelligence section.
Despite the decline in television and online medical dramas, there are some new dramas that have emerged, the fledgling Fox drama "The Resident"; ABC's "The Good Doctor", another masterpiece of "Dr. House", which is also the biggest highlight of the season; NBC's "Chicago Med" and "Code Black", which is soon to return from CBS. And, of course, "Grey's Anatomy," now in its 14th season, was the ABC ratings champion before the start of "Doctor Good."
The success of "Doctor Good" has also piqued the interest of peers, and in intelligence on the new show this fall, NBC has booked a story about a new director at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital.
Doctor Who starred Freddie Highmore, who played Shaun Murphy, a doctor with autism. He says the key to acting is to find a balance between surgical sutures and soap operas, "medical themes need to have a more interesting, meaningful, and emotionally rich storyline in which all the characters are involved." ”
Torrey DeVito (left) and Nick Golfers, Chicago First Aid
At the same time, Carolyn Finger believes that while ABC has successfully produced a spin-off of Grey's Anatomy(2007-2013), private practices have failed to attract audiences. Others quickly fell asleep with CBS's Pure Genius, Fox's "The Mob Doctor," NBC's "Do No Harm", and CW's "Emily Owens."
"You have to have an audience to watch your show," Carolyn Finger notes, while blaming the scarcity of medical dramas on "it's very difficult to create sustained heat on the web."
David Bushman, head of television at the Paley Media Center, said the repeated attempts at medical dramas are not surprising. "There are also ingredients that are expected to replicate success."
But he believes the public discussion of health care issues could spark a new spark in medical dramas. "Now what you see is a reaction from people to the topic and how nervous people are about it. That's why I'm sure you'll choose to watch "Doctor Good" between the eccentric "Dr. House" and "The Good Doctor," and the audience is looking for solace that they are afraid they can't afford the medical bills. I think they are looking for a friendly doctor. ”
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The focus on life and death has driven demand for medical dramas: ABC's daytime soap opera "General Hospital", which has been on the air for 55 years, has been treating patients and saving people, although some doctors have found that some of them do not match reality.
"Everybody wants the medical scene to be as professional, real, and restorative as possible, but very quickly you realize you're telling a story, so you have to have every scene fit into your creativity," Freddie Hammer says.
Freddy Hammer plays Doctor Shaun Murphy in Doctor Who.