The broadly praised thriller, Malpractice, has finally landed on ITVX for a second season with a recent solid.
The first season, which got here out in 2023, gripped the nation with the story of Dr Lucinda Edwards (Niamh Algar), a physician who finds herself on the centre of a medical investigation when ‘a conspiracy starts swirling’.
As her skilled and private life careens in direction of catastrophe, the five-episode drama doesn’t maintain again with fast-paced twists and turns after one of Dr Lucinda’s overdose sufferers dies in her care.
The present scored a formidable 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, with fans praising it as ‘watchable’ and ‘enjoyable’ – and it’s proper up the alley for Line of Duty fans searching for a new present to fill their time.
One critic praised it as ‘excellently well paced’ and one other who applauds the present for having ‘something new to say’.
Now, the collection has come again for a second run with a totally totally different scandal as Niamh exits the present, created and written by former NHS Doctor Grace Ofori-Attah (who can be the individual behind the ITV present Playing Nice).
In season two, Helen Behan and Jordan Kouamé return because the Medical Investigation Unit (MIU), this time investigating Dr James Ford, performed by Victoria star Tom Hughes.
The synopsis reads: ‘When on-call Psychiatric Registrar Dr James Ford is caught between an anxious new mother’s postnatal check-up and the sectioning of a psychotic affected person, nobody might predict the devastating end result.’
Despite a ‘messy’ private life and ‘arrogant’ character Dr Ford appears dedicated to his susceptible sufferers and because the investigation deepens, a hospital ‘seemingly at war with itself’ is uncovered among the many particles.
The synopsis concludes: ‘With the MIU investigation closing in, can Dr Ford save his already fragile profession from a string of apparently damning errors?
‘Is Dr Ford a doctor with a God complex, or a victim of the institution? And can the MIU uncover the truth of what happened, despite hostility from all sides?’
The new season additionally options stars from throughout a number of beloved procedural thrillers together with Blue Light’s Hannah McClean, Top Boys’ Seraphina Beh , Happy Valley’s Rick Warden and Line of Duty’s Ace Bhatti.
In a press release in regards to the upcoming episodes, Tom stated: ‘I couldn’t be extra delighted to be enjoying James and serving to carry to life Grace’s pertinent and necessary piece [of writing], which stopped me in my tracks after I learn it.
‘I hope the audience, when they see it, are equally as gripped and engaged by it, as I was.’
The first season turned probably the most watched launch episode on ITV that 12 months with 6.7m viewers primarily based on 28-day viewing and obtained wide-ranging vital acclaim.
The Guardian’s four-star evaluation known as it ‘intricately plotted and beautifully, leanly written’ and Radio Times dubbed it ‘gripping, tense and deeply engaging’.
Malpractice airs tonight on ITV1 at 9pm. Seasons one and two can be found to stream of their entirety now on ITVX.
This article was first printed on April 25, 2025.
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