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tammyy2j
30-03-2010, 18:10
ITV is lining up a new medical drama to fill the 9pm slot that will soon be left vacant by police drama The Bill.

The long-running series was recently axed due to its ratings dropping massively over the years, and brand new six-part series Monroe is likely to be one of its replacements when it stops airing this autumn after 27 years on the small screen.

No cast has been announced yet for Monroe, but an ITV1 spokesperson confirmed that the project was poised to be given the go-ahead.

The upcoming drama, penned by Desperate Romantics and Blackpool writer Peter Bowker, follows the work of a hospital neurologist. Bowker told MediaGuardian.co.uk that he is hoping it will match the dramatic intensity of US TV show House.

He said: "It may be foolish to compare the two but with neurologists, as with House, there is this very intense 10 days when you work with them on a case and then you say goodbye – it is really quite fascinating and will hopefully make great drama."

Monroe is likely to be broadcast on ITV1 early next year. It will be made by production company Mammoth Screen.

tammyy2j
05-05-2010, 12:15
James Nesbitt has reportedly landed the title role in ITV's new medical drama Monroe.

According to What's On TV, the Cold Feet star will play a neurosurgeon in the show, which revolves around patients, relatives and staff in a modern hospital.

The programme has previously been described as a replacement for The Bill and has been penned by Peter Bowker.

ITV's director of drama commissioning Laura Mackie said: "Monroe will breathe new life into the medical genre. I hope the combination of Pete's sharp and pacey script and Jimmy's performance as the charismatic surgeon will make this one of the most compelling new dramas for 2011."

Filming for the show is scheduled to begin in Leeds in September.

alan45
28-09-2010, 01:25
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alan45
01-03-2011, 15:55
Episode 1 10th March

Monroe (James Nesbitt) is a brilliant neurosurgeon, a husband and a father. At work, he has the courage to perform cutting edge brain surgery – operating on the very thing that makes us who we are. At home, he’s afraid to admit that his life is falling apart.

To his patients, he is the most powerful person in the world: the man with the power to change their lives forever. Yet he is also human, and every bit as flawed as he is brilliant.

Nobody is more aware of Monroe’s flaws than Jenny Bremner (Sarah Parish), a glacial cardiac surgeon with little time for Monroe and his emotional approach to his patients. Bremner is a closed book, but with the help of his best friend and anaesthetist Laurence Shepherd (Tom Riley), Monroe is determined to unearth her sense of humour.

While Bremner’s trainees Andrew Mullery (Andrew Gower) and Sarah Witney (Christina Chong) are left to observe her operations from the sidelines, Monroe does all he can to encourage his weak-stomached trainee Wilson and keep the ambitious Springer in check.

Monroe’s registrar Sally Fortune (Manjinder Virk) has made it through her training to become his trusted right hand woman, but he isn’t convinced that his new recruits have what it takes.

Along with Shepherd, the formidable theatre nurse Wickens (Liz Hume-Dawson) and porter-cum-bookie Bradley (Thomas Morrison), they constitute Monroe’s dysfunctional hospital family. If he cannot repair his life at home, they might turn out to be his only family.

When a young woman, Alison Bannister (Sarah Smart) is admitted with a brain tumour, Monroe has to help her to face a frightening decision: an operation could leave her paralysed or unable to speak, yet without surgery, she is likely to die within a few years.

Does she want to survive if surgery might change who she is? And can Monroe get her through this crisis as his own life starts to spiral out of control?

alan45
01-03-2011, 15:55
Episode 2 17th March

As Monroe (James Nesbitt) struggles to accept the fact that his wife, Anna (Susan Lynch), has left him, he throws himself into work and tries to pretend that his life is not in free fall. His best friend and anaesthetist Shepherd (Tom Riley) can see straight through him, and his teenage son is demanding answers - but can Monroe find the courage to admit the truth about why his marriage has ended?

At the hospital, Monroe and Bremner have to deal with a double shooting after a fourteen year old boy accidentally shoots his twelve year old brother, before attempting to kill himself. Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) literally manages to add insult to injury by offending the boys’ father as his son lies on the operating table, and Monroe is forced to resort to extreme measures to prove that the boys are in good hands. With his own home life disintegrating, Monroe is determined to engage with the boys’ family and understand why the parents are estranged, but his attempts to help are less than welcome.

The bitter and funny personality clash between Monroe and Bremner (Sarah Parish) continues, and Bremner is incensed by Monroe’s attempts to play ‘family therapist’ with the mother of her patient. Shepherd is buoyed up by a mystery date, but refuses to share any details with Monroe and Bradley. Meanwhile, Bremner discovers that even the trainees are gossiping about her impersonal attitude to her patients, and Witney (Christina Chong) has some explaining to do. Springer finally meets his match in the form of a fearsome theatre nurse.

tammyy2j
01-03-2011, 17:43
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBMmofNig80

tammyy2j
08-03-2011, 15:43
James Nesbitt has been keeping pretty busy recently. The former Cold Feet star is currently over in New Zealand getting ready to film The Hobbit, but before all that he's starring in ITV's brand new medical drama Monroe. The show follows Nesbitt's character - the neuroscientist Gabriel Monroe - as he tries to balance his career and his personal life! We gave James a ring to find out about the show, whether it's the British version of House, and if he would be open to a Cold Feet reunion...

Can you tell us a bit about Monroe?
"It's a drama about a neurosurgeon called Gabriel Monroe who is - like all neurosurgeons as I think we discovered from our research - rather brilliant. He does an extraordinary job. His life is in a bit of disarray and he's a bit flawed. He's not very good at examining his own life or his own head, but he's very good at looking into other people's heads and removing all the tumours and badness that lies within. It's written by Pete Bowker - I worked with Pete recently on Occupation. He's my favourite writer, really. He had his own experience of neurosurgery when his daughter, who was 4 at the time, had a brain tumour. I think he was fascinated by this notion of handing over the love of his life to someone who was going to open up her brain and try to remove this thing. It was the combination of Pete and the director Paul McGuigan - who directed Sherlock - and David Moore, the next director, and a very good team and a very good cast - Sarah Parish and Tom Riley. It just made it a very exciting prospect. And it's something that I enjoyed immensely, and I hope it's good. I think it's funny and it really has very human stories at the centre of it."

You mentioned Sarah Parish - how does Monroe get on with her character?
"Yeah, good. Well, not good at all actually - I get on with her very well! She plays a cardiac surgeon... I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons' opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting conflict between the two. And then Tom Riley - who is a brilliant young actor - he's caught in between. There are many different stories and Pete is so good at that. He's a very intelligent writer but he's incredibly accessible. He's got incredible range but this obviously having had personal issues for him in a way may carry more weight for him as a writer."

How does Monroe balance his career and his personal life?
"The work-life balance is pretty imbalanced, really. In a way, his home is the hospital. They're so committed, these people, and so driven. I mean, they're kind of fanatic about what they do in a sense. They spend so much time in hospital they're often rarely at home and I think if you look at the divorce rate of surgeons it's pretty high. I think it has an impact in the same way that in Occupation, going off to war meant in a sense that your true friends were your soldiers. In a way I think that's the case in Monroe. His home life suffers hugely. His life is in disarray but meanwhile he's putting lives back together and I think that conflict makes for great drama. It's also very funny because I think when you open up people's heads in such a brutal way and then you're gallantly trying to remove these ugly tumours and cancers, I think if you didn't have a sense of humour you'd go mad. The operations that I saw - and I saw four or five - humour plays a very important part in the theatre in keeping everyone buoyant and keeping them going and keeping them focused."

You mentioned you saw some surgeries - were you squeamish?
"I thought I would be. I didn't really fancy it at all! But I was fascinated. I was right up close - I was standing as close to a brain as I'm standing to my hand when I look at it now. And at the beginning of the first operation, one of the preeminent surgeons Henry Marsh - I saw him standing over this guy's head that was opened up and there was his brain and he just pointed to a little area and he said, 'You see that, James? That's thought'. I mean, what's not to find fascinating about that? It was a real privilege actually. It's pretty brutal when they go into the head. To get through that bone takes a lot of force and it can be like a building site sometimes."

Monroe has been described as a British version of House - do you think that's fair?
"I think they're very different. I hadn't seen House before and I've only just started watching it here in New Zealand. It's wonderful but I think it's very, very different. I can understand people making the comparison but I think the lives are different, the characters are very, very different. I just think it's a different setup and I think when you start watching Monroe, I kind of think you don't really think of House at all. I hope not. But if people like it half as much as they like House, we'll be doing alright!"

Do you want to make another series of Monroe then?
"Yes! There you have it, right from the horse's mouth. I'd love to."

Why should people tune in to watch Monroe?
"I think because they're human stories. For a start, Pete's a brilliant writer. It's funny. It's a fascinating world. People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain. I think the look of it is very unusual. And we all have a sense of mortality for ourselves and for our families and Monroe deals with all these things. Also, I think we're fascinated by characters like that, who have a brilliance that we don't possess but also have very human flaws which we all recognise. I think that's something that appeals to people hopefully."

We've got to ask the Cold Feet question - when we spoke to Helen Baxendale recently she said she'd be open to a reunion. What are your thoughts - would you go back?
"Well yeah, I guess. I loved working with Helen, I loved working with them all. People have sort of [asked] me [about it] but I heard nothing about the reunion. But you know... I'd be very happy to revisit what was such a good time and such a positive impact on my career. I'm happy to consider all offers."

Monroe begins on Thursday at 9pm on ITV1.

Perdita
14-03-2011, 14:28
Thursday, 31 March 2011, 9:00PM - 10:00PM

Monroe’s (James Nesbitt) life plunges further into chaos as he discovers that ‘civilized divorce’ is harder than he had ever imagined. As Anna (Susan Lynch) starts a new life, Monroe is determined to show that he can move on too, but his attempts to enter the world of dating seem doomed to failure.

At the hospital, Monroe is sure that surgery can help Brendan (Tony Mooney), a family man whose epileptic seizures have been getting worse. However, Brendan has other ideas: he firmly believes that God is talking to him during his seizures, and is reluctant to give up these powerful religious experiences, even if it means that his condition will deteriorate. Monroe tries to persuade him to go ahead with the operation, but Brendan’s teenage daughter, Phoebe (Phoebe Dynevor), accuses Monroe of being too arrogant to understand her father’s special closeness to God. Is Monroe right to try to persuade him, and what will Brendan decide to put his faith in?

Witney (Christina Chong) and Mullery (Andrew Gower) are unnerved by Bremner’s (Sarah Parish) suspiciously good mood, but Monroe is sure that he knows her secret. Unable to resist having some fun, he reveals that he knows about her relationship with Shepherd (Tom Riley), but Bremner is furious to find that she is the subject of gossip and takes decisive action. Meanwhile, Witney struggles to prove that she isn’t judgemental, Bremner has to treat a young patient with a crush on her and Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) continues to infuriate Monroe.


from itv website

alan45
23-03-2011, 01:33
Episode 5 7th April

When registrar Sally Fortune collapses, Monroe is faced with the terrifying prospect of operating on a colleague. Fortune’s condition is serious – she has an aneurysm in her brain which could burst at any moment, and one wrong move during surgery risks leaving her permanently damaged. Fortune places her trust in her mentor, but when the procedure begins to go badly, Monroe has to hold his nerve in a race against time to save his registrar.

Monroe’s thorny relationship with Bremner reaches a crisis point when Bremner becomes involved in Fortune’s treatment, and Shepherd finds himself torn between his best friend and his new girlfriend. Shepherd is convinced that he can make Bremner happy, but can their fledging relationship survive the pressures of the hospital?

The trainees are all anxious about Fortune, but Mullery seems more worried than anyone – is there more to his concern than meets the eye? Meanwhile, Witney has to contend with a patient who refuses to have her surgery cancelled, and Springer learns that no patient is disposable.

At home, Monroe claims that he is being ‘mature’ by helping his wife to start a new life without him, but their son Nick is not convinced. Is Monroe finally ready to let go of the past, or is he giving up on his marriage too easily?

alan45
28-03-2011, 18:23
Thursday 14th April

Series finale: Monroe is finally forced to confront the painful truth about his past when a lively night shift at the hospital suddenly takes a darker turn. The day of reckoning has finally arrived for the trainees as they face their assessments, and Monroe tries to persuade Bremner to make Shepherd stay.

Monroe (James Nesbitt) is finally forced to confront the painful truth about his past when a lively night shift at the hospital suddenly takes a darker turn. When a thirteen year old girl is admitted following a road accident, Monroe knows that there is little chance of saving her and an operation could leave her severely damaged. However, her father begs him to operate and give her a chance to live - whatever the consequences. Shepherd (Tom Riley) sees that Monroe is wavering and accuses him of allowing his emotions to cloud his judgement. But Monroe is a father as well as a surgeon, and seeing this young girl makes his own pain come flooding back. Can Monroe save her, and will he ever be able to let go of his own grief and make peace with his family?

Shepherd is still smarting from his break up with Bremner (Sarah Parish), but finds it impossible to avoid her at the hospital. When Monroe discovers that he is thinking about leaving, he begs Bremner to give his best friend a second chance, but Shepherd is not prepared for what Bremner has to tell him. Meanwhile, the competition between the trainees intensifies as the day of their assessments arrives. Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) is sure that Monroe wants to get rid of him, but Wilson (Michelle Asante) has a surprise in store. Witney (Christina Chong) is frustrated when she loses out on a training opportunity to Mullery (Andrew Gower), but Mullery has bigger concerns as Fortune (Manjinder Virk) continues to feel the impact of her surgery.

alan45
19-09-2012, 15:19
Monroe
Episode: 1 of 6
Monday, 1 October 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM
Drama


NEW SERIES:

International star James Nesbitt (The Hobbit, Occupation, Cold Feet) and the strong ensemble cast from the acclaimed first series are joined by Tracy-Ann Oberman (Friday Night Dinner, Doctor Who, EastEnders), Neil Pearson (Bridget Jones' Diary, Between The Lines, Drop the Dead Donkey) and Lisa Millet (Love Life, Five Daughters) for the second series of ITV1’s medical drama Monroe.

Created by the BAFTA award-winning Peter Bowker (Eric and Ernie, Occupation, Wuthering Heights,) the second series sees the return of Sarah Parish (The Pillars of the Earth, Mistresses, Cutting it) as formidable heart surgeon Jenny Bremner, and Tom Riley (Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Lost in Austen) as Monroe’s best friend, anaesthetist Lawrence Shepherd.

Epiosde one:

In the opening episode Paul Herd (Jody Latham - The Street, Shameless) and his pregnant wife Julie (Julia Haworth - Coronation Street) ask Monroe for help. Paul has been refused surgery by other hospitals for a dangerous neurological condition and Monroe has to decide whether to operate, putting him in conflict with Gillespie.


Eighteen months on and there have been quite a few changes for the staff at St Matthew’s. Monroe (James Nesbitt) has moved into his new bachelor pad, while Shepherd (Tom Riley) and Bremner (Sarah Parish) are now parents to baby Louis.
Today is Bremner’s first day back after maternity leave, and already there is tension between her and Shepherd regarding childcare. Meanwhile, Alistair Gillespie (Neil Pearson), the hospital’s new Head of Clinical Services, is making life difficult for both Bremner and Monroe and neither is used to being overruled.
Gillespie also introduces Lizzie Clapham (Tracy-Ann Oberman), a Nurse Specialist, who will act as an emotional support for neuro and cardiac patients – another thing that gets Monroe’s back up. If anyone’s talking to his patients, it should be him.
Bremner finds it difficult to settle back in at work; Gillespie has taken her off the operating rota for a while to ‘ease her in’, and she finds herself out of the loop for important inter-departmental meetings. Her trainee Witney (Christina Chong) has been promoted to registrar, and Bremner isn’t at all happy when it seems as though she may be becoming too big for her boots. She’s also lost a trainee, as Mullery (Andrew Gower) has stepped over to general surgery and now works for her nemesis, Gillespie.
When a road traffic accident is rushed in, both Monroe and Gillespie are forced to operate together. Monroe assumes that once he’s shown Gillespie his prowess in theatre he’ll get him on-side, but Gillespie proves to be less of a pushover than he’d hoped...
Meanwhile, at home, Monroe decides it would be a good idea to invite ex-wife Anna (Susan Lynch) to dinner with her new boyfriend, Dave the vet (Simon Chadwick). Nick (Perry Millward) also joins along with his girlfriend, Donna (Karla Crome), shocking his parents with the news that they’re getting married in just a few weeks’ time.
When Bremner is forced to perform an emergency sternotomy to save the life of an elderly heart patient, she finally feels back at home at St Matthew’s. But there are ominous signs that her relationship with Shepherd isn't quite what it should be.
Monroe has his own relationship issues to deal with at work. He carries out an incredibly risky AVM operation against Gillespie’s advice, but manages to save the patient. However, his bubble is burst when Gillespie tells them that the hospital can only afford to promote one of his trainees to registrar. He must lose either Wilson (Michelle Asante) or Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) and the final decision is his.

alan45
19-09-2012, 15:19
Monroe
Episode: 1 of 6
Monday, 1 October 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM
Drama


NEW SERIES:

International star James Nesbitt (The Hobbit, Occupation, Cold Feet) and the strong ensemble cast from the acclaimed first series are joined by Tracy-Ann Oberman (Friday Night Dinner, Doctor Who, EastEnders), Neil Pearson (Bridget Jones' Diary, Between The Lines, Drop the Dead Donkey) and Lisa Millet (Love Life, Five Daughters) for the second series of ITV1’s medical drama Monroe.

Created by the BAFTA award-winning Peter Bowker (Eric and Ernie, Occupation, Wuthering Heights,) the second series sees the return of Sarah Parish (The Pillars of the Earth, Mistresses, Cutting it) as formidable heart surgeon Jenny Bremner, and Tom Riley (Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Lost in Austen) as Monroe’s best friend, anaesthetist Lawrence Shepherd.

Epiosde one:

In the opening episode Paul Herd (Jody Latham - The Street, Shameless) and his pregnant wife Julie (Julia Haworth - Coronation Street) ask Monroe for help. Paul has been refused surgery by other hospitals for a dangerous neurological condition and Monroe has to decide whether to operate, putting him in conflict with Gillespie.


Eighteen months on and there have been quite a few changes for the staff at St Matthew’s. Monroe (James Nesbitt) has moved into his new bachelor pad, while Shepherd (Tom Riley) and Bremner (Sarah Parish) are now parents to baby Louis.
Today is Bremner’s first day back after maternity leave, and already there is tension between her and Shepherd regarding childcare. Meanwhile, Alistair Gillespie (Neil Pearson), the hospital’s new Head of Clinical Services, is making life difficult for both Bremner and Monroe and neither is used to being overruled.
Gillespie also introduces Lizzie Clapham (Tracy-Ann Oberman), a Nurse Specialist, who will act as an emotional support for neuro and cardiac patients – another thing that gets Monroe’s back up. If anyone’s talking to his patients, it should be him.
Bremner finds it difficult to settle back in at work; Gillespie has taken her off the operating rota for a while to ‘ease her in’, and she finds herself out of the loop for important inter-departmental meetings. Her trainee Witney (Christina Chong) has been promoted to registrar, and Bremner isn’t at all happy when it seems as though she may be becoming too big for her boots. She’s also lost a trainee, as Mullery (Andrew Gower) has stepped over to general surgery and now works for her nemesis, Gillespie.
When a road traffic accident is rushed in, both Monroe and Gillespie are forced to operate together. Monroe assumes that once he’s shown Gillespie his prowess in theatre he’ll get him on-side, but Gillespie proves to be less of a pushover than he’d hoped...
Meanwhile, at home, Monroe decides it would be a good idea to invite ex-wife Anna (Susan Lynch) to dinner with her new boyfriend, Dave the vet (Simon Chadwick). Nick (Perry Millward) also joins along with his girlfriend, Donna (Karla Crome), shocking his parents with the news that they’re getting married in just a few weeks’ time.
When Bremner is forced to perform an emergency sternotomy to save the life of an elderly heart patient, she finally feels back at home at St Matthew’s. But there are ominous signs that her relationship with Shepherd isn't quite what it should be.
Monroe has his own relationship issues to deal with at work. He carries out an incredibly risky AVM operation against Gillespie’s advice, but manages to save the patient. However, his bubble is burst when Gillespie tells them that the hospital can only afford to promote one of his trainees to registrar. He must lose either Wilson (Michelle Asante) or Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) and the final decision is his.

alan45
24-09-2012, 16:43
Monroe
Episode: 2 of 6
Monday, 8 October 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM

Head of Clinical Services Gillespie (Neil Pearson) has dealt Monroe (James Nesbitt) a tough hand. He can only have one registrar on his team, but trainees Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) and Wilson (Michelle Asante) are equally capable. Monroe’s going to have to put the pair through the wringer to find out who is the better surgeon – but the biggest test this week will be of his own abilities.

The neuros’ first case is Shelley Maxwell (Amelia Young), a teenage girl whose brain shunt, fitted when she was a newborn, is beginning to malfunction. It’s time for her to have her brain’s third ventricle punctured by Monroe so that her cerebrospinal fluid can drain properly. It’s an operation for which Shelley’s been preparing for years, but she worries that once she’s fixed, her divorced parents and their families will have no reason to unite around her.

Then there’s Lynn Monkford (Caroline Strong), reconciled to the idea that she’ll die of cancer within a year. Monroe – who develops a close relationship with her husband, Mike (Sean Gilder) – can make that year worth living if he operates to reduce her brain tumour. Although it’s a routine operation, it is also the beginning of one of the greatest crises of his professional career.

Also at St Matthew’s for surgery is Graham Birdwell (Martin Walsh), preparing to undergo a double heart bypass with the help of his mentally disabled brother Geoffrey (Tim Dantay), and an A&E case with a nail to the chest. The latter is really a job for Witney (Christina Chong), but the less ambitious Mullery (Andrew Gower) finds himself taking on the patient and performing a grisly ‘clamshell’ to save the man’s life...

Meanwhile, Monroe finds himself powerless to prevent his son’s impending marriage, while Shepherd (Tom Riley) is finding life with the aloof Bremner (Sarah Parish) and their son Louis more of a strain than he ever expected, so much so that he finds himself looking for comfort elsewhere.

alan45
24-09-2012, 16:43
Monroe
Episode: 2 of 6
Monday, 8 October 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM

Head of Clinical Services Gillespie (Neil Pearson) has dealt Monroe (James Nesbitt) a tough hand. He can only have one registrar on his team, but trainees Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) and Wilson (Michelle Asante) are equally capable. Monroe’s going to have to put the pair through the wringer to find out who is the better surgeon – but the biggest test this week will be of his own abilities.

The neuros’ first case is Shelley Maxwell (Amelia Young), a teenage girl whose brain shunt, fitted when she was a newborn, is beginning to malfunction. It’s time for her to have her brain’s third ventricle punctured by Monroe so that her cerebrospinal fluid can drain properly. It’s an operation for which Shelley’s been preparing for years, but she worries that once she’s fixed, her divorced parents and their families will have no reason to unite around her.

Then there’s Lynn Monkford (Caroline Strong), reconciled to the idea that she’ll die of cancer within a year. Monroe – who develops a close relationship with her husband, Mike (Sean Gilder) – can make that year worth living if he operates to reduce her brain tumour. Although it’s a routine operation, it is also the beginning of one of the greatest crises of his professional career.

Also at St Matthew’s for surgery is Graham Birdwell (Martin Walsh), preparing to undergo a double heart bypass with the help of his mentally disabled brother Geoffrey (Tim Dantay), and an A&E case with a nail to the chest. The latter is really a job for Witney (Christina Chong), but the less ambitious Mullery (Andrew Gower) finds himself taking on the patient and performing a grisly ‘clamshell’ to save the man’s life...

Meanwhile, Monroe finds himself powerless to prevent his son’s impending marriage, while Shepherd (Tom Riley) is finding life with the aloof Bremner (Sarah Parish) and their son Louis more of a strain than he ever expected, so much so that he finds himself looking for comfort elsewhere.

alan45
01-10-2012, 13:19
Monroe
Episode: 3 of 6
Monday, 15 October 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM

As Shepherd and Witney reel from their liaison, Monroe finds himself without purpose after a catastrophic operation. Grave complications mean Bremner's operation on a five-year-old refugee turns into a race against time.

Full synopsis:

Monroe (James Nesbitt) is reeling from the failure of a recent brain tumour operation. Just as he’s promoting Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) to the position of registrar, he’s starting to question his own abilities as a neurosurgeon.

Shepherd (Tom Riley) and Witney (Christina Chong) are facing the uncomfortable fact that she’s slept with her boss’s partner and he’s slept with Bremner’s registrar. Shepherd’s first instinct is to tell the truth, but for Witney that prospect is the most horrifying thing she’s ever heard – professionally, it could ruin her.

It’s a difficult day for inspiring the confidence of new patients, but they have to try. Monroe’s next patient is Alex Schofield (Gwilym Lee), a mummy’s boy with a benign tumour in his spine. The slightest misstep in surgery could mean paralysing the young man for life, so Monroe takes the unprecedented step of inviting Shepherd to use an MEP machine to test the strength of electrical currents running through Alex’s spine. But the technology invites trepidation and Monroe halts the operation early, leaving the majority of the tumour in Alex’s spine. It takes the heat of an emergency to get the neurosurgeon back on track – a gentle rugby fan with a knife in his brain.

Bremner (Sarah Parish) and Witney face one of the more exotic entries in the heart surgery handbook – Tetralogy of Fallot. This complex condition is afflicting a five-year-old Pakistani refugee, Yalda Sahni (Sophie Mohammed), and the surgeons learn once again that no matter how far ahead you plan, matters of the heart are never simple.

In crisis, Shepherd and Bremner go to counselling to patch up their difficult relationship, but find there are no quick fixes.

Meanwhile, Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) is helpless to prevent his new status at St Matthew’s going to his head, and starts to treat Wilson (Michelle Asante) as if she were his trainee. Romance is also on the cards, although Springer is oblivious as to what’s really going on with Witney, his date for the evening.

alan45
01-10-2012, 13:20
Monroe
Episode: 4 of 6
Monday, 22 October 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM
Drama



Monroe is busy pursuing Lizzie and playing agony aunt to Shepherd when an awkward, violent woman arrives at St Matthew’s with a deadly cerebral aneurysm in tow. The neurosurgeon calls on Bremner to help save her life.

Full synopsis:

Monroe (James Nesbitt) has recovered his confidence as a neurosurgeon. Having seen ex-wife Anna (Susan Lynch) happily paired off with Dave the vet, he’s made it his project to win over his colleague Lizzie (Tracy-Ann Oberman). However, a planned date doesn’t go quite as either of them anticipated.

Meanwhile Springer (Luke-Allen Gale) is proving reliably insufferable in his new role as a junior registrar, despite the fact that he was Monroe’s second choice. He’s also found himself in the implausible situation of dating Witney (Christina Chong), confirming everything he’d always suspected about himself and astounding the rest of the staff.

Shepherd (Tom Riley) knows that Witney is doing everything in her power to put their reckless one-night stand behind her and is doing better at it than he is. He and Bremner (Sarah Parish) are trying their best to play happy families, but Shepherd’s secret is still festering, as are the issues with Bremner that drove him into Witney’s arms in the first place. Confused, he walks out and moves into Monroe’s flat.

Enter Sally Indale (Jennifer Hennessey), who has a history of fitting and aggressive episodes. An MRI scan reveals an aneurysm ‘the size of the Isle of Wight’ deep in her temporal lobe. Monroe believes that if Sally agrees to a particularly frightening operation, hypothermic circulatory arrest, he can restore her old personality. The operation will be made even more testing by the fact that Bremner, Monroe, Shepherd and Witney will be sharing space in the crowded theatre.

At the same time, Witney and Bremner are faced with the problem of Max Portas (David Ajala), an amateur footballer who has myocarditis, a virus that is attacking his heart muscle. But Max refuses treatment, and Witney, recognising his isolation spends a night in the ward trying to talk him around.

alan45
15-10-2012, 19:54
Monroe
Episode: 5 of 6
Monday, 29 October 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM
Drama


Monroe and Bremner attempt parallel miracles – curing the epilepsy of a middle-aged woman and a heart transplant for a teenage girl. It’s just a pity their love lives are about to come unstuck.

***

Mullery (Andrew Gower) and Monroe (James Nesbitt) know everything, but so far Bremner (Sarah Parish) hasn’t a clue that her estranged partner Shepherd (Tom Riley) has been unfaithful. Monroe’s urging him to return to Bremner and Louis, even if it takes a lie, but Shepherd isn’t sure, although he persists with counselling.

Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) is served a legal notice after confusing a tumour with an abscess to the great enjoyment of Monroe and Wilson (Michelle Asante). Their latest patient, meanwhile, is Bridget Addy (Michelle Holmes), whose epilepsy is becoming a real problem. Monroe decides to take out the offending lump of brain, but plans to keep her awake while he’s at it – that way he’ll know he isn’t interfering with her speech. As her seizures in the Cottingley Ward become more destructive, her ex-husband is hauled into St Matthew’s by Lizzie (Tracy-Ann Oberman) to offer his questionable support.

At the same time, Bremner and Witney (Christina Chong) are preparing teenage Grace Bushnall (Rebecca Ryan) for a heart transplant – but, despite the fact that Grace has been waiting years for this life-changing operation, she’s starting to have doubts about the procedure and backs out at the last minute.

Gillespie (Neil Pearson), meanwhile, is starting to trust his young protégé Mullery (Andrew Gower) more and more, and when an overweight man comes into A&E with the entire length of his aorta requiring a graft, the older surgeon steps back so that Mullery can do the tricky bit in the abdomen. It’s long, sticky work, but Mullery, highly strung after an oddly physical confrontation with Shepherd, rises to the occasion.

At the end of an unusual day Lizzie, Monroe, Shepherd and Bremner all come to some surprising conclusions about their dysfunctional love lives.

alan45
15-10-2012, 19:54
Monroe
Episode: 5 of 6
Monday, 29 October 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM
Drama


Monroe and Bremner attempt parallel miracles – curing the epilepsy of a middle-aged woman and a heart transplant for a teenage girl. It’s just a pity their love lives are about to come unstuck.

***

Mullery (Andrew Gower) and Monroe (James Nesbitt) know everything, but so far Bremner (Sarah Parish) hasn’t a clue that her estranged partner Shepherd (Tom Riley) has been unfaithful. Monroe’s urging him to return to Bremner and Louis, even if it takes a lie, but Shepherd isn’t sure, although he persists with counselling.

Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) is served a legal notice after confusing a tumour with an abscess to the great enjoyment of Monroe and Wilson (Michelle Asante). Their latest patient, meanwhile, is Bridget Addy (Michelle Holmes), whose epilepsy is becoming a real problem. Monroe decides to take out the offending lump of brain, but plans to keep her awake while he’s at it – that way he’ll know he isn’t interfering with her speech. As her seizures in the Cottingley Ward become more destructive, her ex-husband is hauled into St Matthew’s by Lizzie (Tracy-Ann Oberman) to offer his questionable support.

At the same time, Bremner and Witney (Christina Chong) are preparing teenage Grace Bushnall (Rebecca Ryan) for a heart transplant – but, despite the fact that Grace has been waiting years for this life-changing operation, she’s starting to have doubts about the procedure and backs out at the last minute.

Gillespie (Neil Pearson), meanwhile, is starting to trust his young protégé Mullery (Andrew Gower) more and more, and when an overweight man comes into A&E with the entire length of his aorta requiring a graft, the older surgeon steps back so that Mullery can do the tricky bit in the abdomen. It’s long, sticky work, but Mullery, highly strung after an oddly physical confrontation with Shepherd, rises to the occasion.

At the end of an unusual day Lizzie, Monroe, Shepherd and Bremner all come to some surprising conclusions about their dysfunctional love lives.

alan45
22-10-2012, 15:27
Monroe
Episode: 6 of 6
Monday, 5 November 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM
Drama


Nick’s stag party is ruined when a lethal traffic accident brings the whole team into the hospital. While the hospital's facilities are stretched to breaking point, Bremner and Shepherd reach an agonising crossroads in their relationship.

***

A week has passed since Monroe (James Nesbitt) revealed to Bremner (Sarah Parish) the truth about her wayward partner Shepherd (Tom Riley) – but she still hasn’t said a thing.

On the surface, everything at St Matthew’s is much the same. Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) is insufferable, Wilson (Michelle Asante) is put-upon and Gillespie (Neil Pearson) is weighing his managerial role against his surgical passions. Only Witney (Christina Chong) seems to have decided that ‘things must change’, and resolves to resign from St Matthew’s to pursue a career far away from her mistakes.

Nick (Perry Millward) is one day away from married life, and has cold feet. Worse than this, he has to explain to Monroe that perhaps his vainglorious father was right all along. However, Monroe has come around to the idea of the impending nuptials, and has invited his colleagues Gillespie, Bradley (Thomas Morrison) and Jill (Lisa Millet) around to his flat for an ersatz stag night.

They’ve picked the wrong night to be away from the hospital. At St Matthew’s, Springer is giving Jacob Namobu (Ukweli Roach), a young medical student, his first taste of neurosurgery when patients start to trickle in from a colossal road traffic accident. Compound depressed skull fractures, aortic transections, and lung lacerations... you name it, they’re dealing with it. Showing off, Springer immediately gets into trouble when a transverse sinus refuses to stop bleeding, and Wilson persuades the anesthetist, Mary (Morag Siller), to call Monroe.

The three surgeons collaborate to save the life of a teenage boy with wounds to the head, chest and bowels while simultaneously dealing with their own patients, in particular Big Geoff, an obese truck driver with severe abdominal injuries and ‘Buzz’ White (Paul Wyett), a drugged-up driver.

This is the night the truth comes out. The night Witney resigns. The night someone dies.

alan45
22-10-2012, 15:28
Monroe
Episode: 6 of 6
Monday, 5 November 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM
Drama


Nick’s stag party is ruined when a lethal traffic accident brings the whole team into the hospital. While the hospital's facilities are stretched to breaking point, Bremner and Shepherd reach an agonising crossroads in their relationship.

***

A week has passed since Monroe (James Nesbitt) revealed to Bremner (Sarah Parish) the truth about her wayward partner Shepherd (Tom Riley) – but she still hasn’t said a thing.

On the surface, everything at St Matthew’s is much the same. Springer (Luke Allen-Gale) is insufferable, Wilson (Michelle Asante) is put-upon and Gillespie (Neil Pearson) is weighing his managerial role against his surgical passions. Only Witney (Christina Chong) seems to have decided that ‘things must change’, and resolves to resign from St Matthew’s to pursue a career far away from her mistakes.

Nick (Perry Millward) is one day away from married life, and has cold feet. Worse than this, he has to explain to Monroe that perhaps his vainglorious father was right all along. However, Monroe has come around to the idea of the impending nuptials, and has invited his colleagues Gillespie, Bradley (Thomas Morrison) and Jill (Lisa Millet) around to his flat for an ersatz stag night.

They’ve picked the wrong night to be away from the hospital. At St Matthew’s, Springer is giving Jacob Namobu (Ukweli Roach), a young medical student, his first taste of neurosurgery when patients start to trickle in from a colossal road traffic accident. Compound depressed skull fractures, aortic transections, and lung lacerations... you name it, they’re dealing with it. Showing off, Springer immediately gets into trouble when a transverse sinus refuses to stop bleeding, and Wilson persuades the anesthetist, Mary (Morag Siller), to call Monroe.

The three surgeons collaborate to save the life of a teenage boy with wounds to the head, chest and bowels while simultaneously dealing with their own patients, in particular Big Geoff, an obese truck driver with severe abdominal injuries and ‘Buzz’ White (Paul Wyett), a drugged-up driver.

This is the night the truth comes out. The night Witney resigns. The night someone dies.

Perdita
15-11-2012, 07:24
ITV has axed James Nesbitt's medical drama Monroe.

The series will not return for a third run, according to Broadcast.

Monroe - which first aired in March 2011 - starred Irish actor Nesbitt as Dr Gabriel Monroe, a maverick neurosurgeon.

Sarah Parish and Tom Riley also appeared in the series, created by Blackpool and Occupation writer Peter Bowker.

The show premiered with 6.85 million viewers on ITV1 last year, but ended its second run with an overnight audience of 3.53m earlier this month.

Nesbitt previously claimed that Monroe would appeal to viewers because the show tells "human stories".

"I think we're fascinated by characters like [Monroe], who have a brilliance that we don't possess but also have very human flaws which we all recognise," he said.

alan45
15-11-2012, 13:21
Thats a pity. I really enjoyed this programme. I suppose ITV need the money for their rubbish programmes like fiX Factor and Im a ZZZZZZZZZZZZelebrity Give me some free publicity and pay me £ 50000 get me out of debt and other such rubbish for the brain dead

Chloe O'brien
18-11-2012, 02:17
I agree with you Alan. I think far to many quality programmes are being sacrificed for the sake of reality tv shows. But I don't really rate James as an actor so I'm not to upset that he won't be returning to our screens. Heaven knows how I will be able to enjoy going to see "The Hobbit" with both him and Martin Freeman in it. Two of the weakest British actors in my opinion.

Chloe O'brien
18-11-2012, 02:17
I agree with you Alan. I think far to many quality programmes are being sacrificed for the sake of reality tv shows. But I don't really rate James as an actor so I'm not to upset that he won't be returning to our screens. Heaven knows how I will be able to enjoy going to see "The Hobbit" with both him and Martin Freeman in it. Two of the weakest British actors in my opinion.

Chloe O'brien
18-11-2012, 02:23
I agree with you Alan. I think far to many quality programmes are being sacrificed for the sake of reality tv shows. But I don't really rate James as an actor so I'm not to upset that he won't be returning to our screens. Heaven knows how I will be able to enjoy going to see "The Hobbit" with both him and Martin Freeman in it. Two of the weakest British actors in my opinion.