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6.5/10 TV Original language(s) English No. of episodes 64 Genre Reality television | 5.1/10 IMDb Country of origin United States No. of seasons 4 First episode date 24 March 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Dr. Jacqueline Walters
Dr. Simone Whitmore
Kari Wells
Toya Bush-Harris
Quad Webb-Lunceford
Mariah Huq
Dr. Heavenly Kimes
Lisa Nicole Cloud Executive producer(s) Matt Anderson
Nate Green
Mariah Huq Similar Blood - Sweat & Heels, Don't Be Tardy, Bethenny Ever After, The New Atlanta, The Real Housewives of Atlanta Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Married to Medicine is an American reality television series which premiered on March 24, 2013, on Bravo and was created by Mariah Huq. The series chronicles the lives of seven women in Atlanta medical community with three of the women being doctors themselves while the others are doctors' wives. It shows the group as they balance their social circles, careers, and families.
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Toya Bush-Harris, Mariah Huq, Quad Webb-Lunceford, Jacqueline Walters, Kari Wells, and Simone Whitmore composed the first-season cast. Lisa Nicole Cloud and Heavenly Kimes joined the series beginning with the second season after the departure of Wells, while Huq departed after the second season.
Bravo has renewed the show for a third season and fourth season.
The network announced a spin-off show entitled Married to Medicine: Houston, which premiered on November 11, 2016.
Background
In November 2012, Bravo announced the series green-light of Married to Medicine. The network detailed the series by stating, "Married to Medicine follows a group of successful and educated women, including doctors and wives of doctors, who are connected to the world of medicine in Atlanta." By February 2013, the first-season cast was revealed with Toya Bush-Harris, Mariah Huq, Quad Webb-Lunceford, Jacqueline Walters, Kari Wells, and Simone Whitmore starring in the series. At the time of its debut, Married to Medicine held the title of highest-rated series premiere since Bethenny Getting Married? in 2010 and the most watched non-spinoff series premiere in the network's history. The milestone was later surpassed in January 2014 by Blood, Sweat and Heels. The first season delivered over 1 million viewers in the 18-49 viewership demographic and 1.8 million total viewers, making it the network's highest-rated non-franchise/non-spin-off freshman series since Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
The production of the second season began the first week of September 2013. It premiered on April 6, 2014, with Toya Bush-Harris, Mariah Huq, Quad Webb-Lunceford, Jacqueline Walters, and Simone Whitmore reprising their roles while Lisa Nicole Cloud and Heavenly Kimes joined in the second season. Wells transitioned into a guest starring role for the second and third season.
On January 15, 2015, Bravo renewed the show for a third season, which premiered on June 7, 2015, and featured Bush-Harris, Lunceford, Walters, Whitmore, Kimes, and Cloud reprising their roles from the second season. Huq transitioned into a recurring role for the third season, while Jill Connors, who had guest starred in the second season, was featured in a recurring capacity.
On December 26, 2015, Heavenly Kimes teased that the show will be returning for a fourth season. No further sources have surfaced to confirm if this statement is legit or not. Sources revealed on April 27, 2016, that the show had been renewed for a fourth season by Bravo, and the current cast were already six weeks into filming. The entire cast from the third season returned as series regulars, along with Mariah returning in a recurring capacity.
Season 2 (2014)
Dr. Heavenly and Lisa Nicole joined the cast of Married to Medicine; Kari departed as a series regular.
Season 3 (2015)
Mariah departed as a series regular.
Reception
Prior to the series premiere, a group of Howard University College of Medicine students created a Change.org petition to prevent the series from airing. The petition stated that the series "heavily associates Black females in medicine with materialism, cat fights, and unprofessionalism". It goes on to detail the rising difficulty in obtaining residency positions as African American women and how the series' representation of those physicians would only make the task tougher.