Doctor Foster (TV series)
| Doctor Foster | |
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| Genre | Drama, |
| Written by | Mike Bartlett |
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| Opening theme | "Fly" by Ludovico Einaudi |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Drama Republic |
| Release | |
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| Picture format | 16:9 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 9 September 2015 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
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 enquiry, 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.
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 railway station featured in the show was Enfield Chase station.
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.
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."
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