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Genre
  
Drama

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

First episode date
  
9 September 2015

7.9/10
IMDb

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Original language(s)
  
English

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Writers
  
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Starring
  
Suranne JonesBertie CarvelRobert PughAdam JamesJodie Comer

Opening theme
  
Awards
  
British Academy Television Award for Best Actress

Similar
  
The Crimson Field, The Game, London Spy, Thirteen, Ordinary Lies

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Doctor Foster is a British drama television series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 9 September 2015. The five-part series, written by Mike Bartlett, is about Dr. Gemma Foster, who suspects that her husband has been having an affair. After she follows several lines of enquiries, far more in her life unravels, including a streak of violence below the surface. The drama was commissioned for a second series with stars Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel returning.

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Production

The series was commissioned by Charlotte Moore and Ben Stephenson. The executive producers are Roanna Benn, Greg Brenman, Jude Liknaitzky, and Matthew Read. Filming took place in Green Lane, Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, Copse Wood Way, Northwood, London and Hitchin, Hertfordshire. The surgery location shoot was at the Chess Medical Centre. Chesham Bucks, renamed Parminster Medical Centre for the show. The train station featured in the show was Enfield Chase station.

Cast

  • Suranne Jones as Gemma Foster, a GP in the town of Parminster, who begins to suspect her husband, Simon, is having an affair.
  • Bertie Carvel as Simon Foster, a 40-year-old property developer and Gemma's husband.
  • Clare-Hope Ashitey as Carly Williams, a patient of Gemma's, who helps support Gemma, due to her suspicions of Simon.
  • Cheryl Campbell as Helen Foster (episodes 1-3)
  • Jodie Comer as Kate Parks, a 23-year-old University Graduate who has been secretly having a two-year affair with Simon Foster.
  • Navin Chowdhry as Anwar (episodes 2-3, 5)
  • Victoria Hamilton as Anna Baker (episodes 1-3, 5)
  • Martha Howe-Douglas as Becky Hughes
  • Adam James as Neil Baker (episodes 1-3, 5)
  • Thusitha Jayasundera as Ros Mahendra.
  • Sara Stewart as Susie Parks (episodes 1-2, 4-5)
  • Neil Stuke as Chris Parks (episodes 1-2, 4-5)
  • Tom Taylor as Tom Foster, Gemma and Simon's 11-year-old son.
  • Robert Pugh as Jack Reynolds (episodes 1-2, 4)
  • Ricky Nixon as Daniel Spencer (episodes 1,4)
  • Series 2 (2017)

    It was announced at the end of Series 1 that the show would return for a second series, with both Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel. At the 21st National Television Awards Jones announced that the new series would begin filming in September 2016.

    Reception

    In general, the show has received acclaim. The opening episode received generally positive reviews from critics, with Lucy Mangan from The Guardian calling it a "gripping portrait of a marriage slowly being poisoned," although Mangan expressed fears of the show descending into "melodrama in the not too distant future ". In a review for The Telegraph, Michael Hogan gave the drama four stars out of five, describing it as "an edgy nail-biter", that was "sparkily written by Olivier Award-winner Mike Bartlett", despite a soundtrack that was "overbearing". Victoria Segal of the Sunday Times wrote of the fourth episode that it 'clattered unsteadily to its denouement ...this episode is as desperately uneven as the rest of the series, thrashing about between high melodrama and muted misery." Catherine Blythe of the Daily Telegraph bemoaned its "absurd plot" and the lack of "emotional logic" in a series of "melodramatic contortions that required a character who was supposed to be brainy to act like an utter fool."

    Accolades

    Broadcast

    Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on 17 November 2015 on BBC First, in New Zealand on January 17, 2016 on TV One, in France on 15 June 2016 on D8, in Poland on 3 August 2016 on Ale Kino+, and in Sweden on 15 August 2016 on SVT1. The miniseries aired in the US on Lifetime in April 2016 as Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned and began streaming on Netflix in October 2016.

    References

    Doctor Foster (TV series) Wikipedia