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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Sept 8, 2019 18:29:30 GMT
New Amsterdam is getting a second UK home.
More4 have acquired the linear rights to the medical drama. The show’s first season is expected to premiere on the channel later this month.
New Amsterdam follows Dr. Max Goodwin, Bellevue Hospital’s newest medical director who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care. Not taking “no” for an answer, Dr. Goodwin must disrupt the status quo and prove he will stop at nothing to breathe new life into this understaffed, underfunded and underappreciated hospital and return it to the glory that put it on the map.
The drama series, which is inspired by Dr. Eric Manheimer’s memoir “Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital” and his fifteen years as Medical Director at the hospital, stars Ryan Eggold, Freema Agyeman, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims, Anupam Kher and Tyler Labine.
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Post by cakewalk on Sept 8, 2019 19:52:19 GMT
I've not heard of any of the actors, but totally love the scenario so I would love to see this. I shall watch out for it.
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Post by profbooboo on Sept 8, 2019 19:58:06 GMT
I like this show. It's a bit sickly sweet and Max is very idealistic, which is a bit unrealistic with everything he's going through ( running a New York free hospital, becoming a new father AND battling cancer! ) but I did get drawn into this along with FBI and The Rookie. |
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Post by geometryman on Sept 9, 2019 8:54:42 GMT
Season 1 (22 episodes) is available on Amazon Prime, who were pushing it some months ago.
The show doesn't interest me at all though - hospital dramas generally aren't my thing.
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Post by pandaeyes on Sept 9, 2019 9:59:26 GMT
I've not heard of this show but thanks for telling us, Dame. sounds interesting, will give it a go.
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Sept 11, 2019 16:15:10 GMT
Thursday September 26th at 9pm.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2019 16:28:28 GMT
I watched it for a bit on Amazon Prime, and wasn't impressed. {SPOILER:Click to Show}The director of the hospital has cancer, and is still working for a long time, while undergoing treatment. He is seen wandering round the hospital pushing a drip around with his treatment drugs in it. For a long time, he is treated by his assistant, Freema Agyeman.  And, yes, he does make her his assistant, at one point. There is a highly spoilerific review here which, rightly doesn't take it seriously: 24 Questions About ‘New Amsterdam,’ Network TV’s Latest Over-the-Top Medical Drama |
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Post by marion on Sept 29, 2019 17:45:30 GMT
Just watched the first episode, and I feel as if I have just got out of a bath of syrup! This is Grey'a Anatomy on steroids! Everyone is so woke! Although the,psych guy probably meant could we have healthy meals in the canteen rather than a fruit stall in reception! Two things really ticked me off. When the black doctor told the white doctor he couldn't go out with her (despite bonking her), because she isn't black! Imagine them showing that with the races reversed. And the psych guy getting the dead foster mother's daughter, who has no experience as a foster parent and no background checks, to take on the disturbed teenager. Hello! How does that work?
Having said all that, I reckon this is one of those shows that gets you by the neck and never lets go! And I always get hooked.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2019 19:37:06 GMT
To my mind, there be many sharks in New Amsterdam, and everybody gets the opportunity to jump over at least one.
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Post by yankee on Oct 1, 2019 17:49:56 GMT
For the terrestrial networks - who used to have very gritty, realistic, hospital dramas (ER, St. Elsewhere, Chicago Hope, House) - they have really gone soapy in recent years, probably because the series on cable can really ramp it up as they don't have to pander to sponsors or the sensors. As a result terrestrial medical dramas have gotten very tepid.
Chicago Med a bit of an exception.
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Post by marion on Oct 18, 2019 15:40:40 GMT
Well I am watching episode 2 now and have to say I am very surprised by the high, over 8, rating on IMDB. Max is a living saint, isn't he? I have taken against him for being so saccharine but do like the psychiatrist and the Indian guy. I was very surprised that his hospital has its own school, courtroom and corrections Ward with full prison security! You don't get that at Charing Cross! I just think it needs a dose of vinegar to sharpen it up. And is it usual for potential patients to ask to film the consultation with their doctor? Wouldn't the doctor think ooh, this could end up online?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2019 15:47:18 GMT
Bellevue Hospital (the one on which the series is based) does have these. here is the courtroom's doorway:
Much of what it deals with is to do with psychiatric cases.
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Post by yankee on Oct 18, 2019 16:27:38 GMT
Bellevue is the oldest government run hospital in the US.
It is a very busy hospital - because being state run - its where patients with no insurance are sent, prisoners who's care is beyond the capabilities of jail and prison infirmaries are sent, and of course perhaps the largest psychiatric treatment ward in the country.
So famous (and in some cases infamous) is Bellevue that its name has become a slang term, a metaphor particularly for someone of unsound mind.
There probably has never been a television cop show or film set in New York where the cops were not often heard to quote "he's a candidate for a rubber room at Bellevue" or something similar.
It would be interesting to see which famous (or again infamous) New York landmark has had more name drops in TV and films, Bellevue Hospital or Rikers Island prison. "Take him to Rikers" "His jacket shows he did a 10 year stretch at Rikers"
Most large US hospitals are also affiliated with Universities and its where medical students do their final studies and internships.
A doctor who does his/her final studies at Bellevue is likely going to get a rather diverse education! Gun shot wounds, psyche patients, homeless people suffering from exposure, lice, prostitutes, prisoners handcuffed to the bed.
A doctor who does his/her final studies at Northwestern Memorial Hospital here in Chicago on the other hand is going to get an education more so in the latest cutting edge medicine, the latest in minimally invasive cancer treatments and the like, and see very little of the stuff one would see at Bellevue. NWM is tied in directly with Northwestern University which is the midwestern equivalent of Ivy League.
The hospital does however operate a number of community based clinics and facilities that provide the same free healthcare as non-insured people would receive at Bellevue.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 18, 2019 16:37:56 GMT
That's interesting! So ER being set in Chicago is a bit misleading?
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Post by yankee on Oct 18, 2019 16:41:41 GMT
No no. Thank you for bringing that up Miranda! ER is based on Cook County Hospital. Which is DEFINITLY our equivalent of Bellevue.  |
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Anymore to come?
