The Good Karma Hospital, ITV: cast, locations, and everything to know about the India-set medical drama

Amanda Redman and Neil Morrissey star in the brand new Sunday night drama
Brand new: Amanda Redman and Amrita Acharia in The Good Karma Hospital
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Jennifer Ruby6 February 2017

Amanda Redman and Neil Morrissey star in a brand new medical drama, which wings its way to ITV on Sunday nights.

The Good Karma Hospital, part Indian Summers and part Call the Midwife launches this week and will fill the coveted 9pm slot for the next six weeks.

Set in a coastal town in tropical South India, the series follows British-Asian junior doctor, Ruby Walker, played by Amrita Acharia as she arrives at the run-down hospital to help the over-worked medics.

Here’s what you need to know about The Good Karma Hospital.

Stars: Neil Morrissey and Amanda Redman
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It stars Game of Thrones actress Amrita Acharia

Acharia, who takes on the lead role in the new six-part series, is best known to TV fans for playing Irri in the award-winning Game of Thrones.

“The show’s very bold”, she told The Independent. “It doesn’t shy away from the shit in life and from the socio-economic situations in India and why the decisions Ruby made there aren’t the same as she would be made here.

“When people ask is it the same as Casualty, I go ‘no, it's nothing like that’.”

It was filmed in Sri Lanka

The cast shot the new series over three months in Sri Lanka, which stood in for Kerala.

“It was interesting being in Sri Lanka because I almost felt that I reconnected with that [Nepalese] part of myself, having been brought up in the western world since the age of seven,” said Acharia.

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It’s about the struggles of an under-funded, run-down hospital

Redman plays Lydia Fonseca, who runs The Good Karma Hospital, an under-funded but creatively resourceful cottage hospital.

Ruby Walker is drafted in to help the dedicated team as they battle to help the local community.

It’s from Ripper Street producer Stephen Smallwood

Smallwood is on board as producer, while the drama has been created and written by Dan Sefton, with scripts also from Vinay Patel and Nancy Harris.

The first episodes are directed by Gotham’s Bill Eagles.

ITV, 9pm.

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