New Channel 5 show The Heart Hospital will follow NHS staff as they “mend hearts” at a special hospital unit in Scotland.
The four-parter will shoot inside the NHS Golden Jubilee University National Hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow which is home to a world-class centre for heart services.
Commissioning editor for unscripted at Channel 5 and Paramount+, Kit Morey, said: “The Heart Hospital is a series about love. Our hearts embody every range of emotion – joy, hope, excitement and at times, when they break, fear and vulnerability.
“But most of all, this incredible organ represents love and inside the NHS Golden Jubilee we capture that emotion in bucketloads. I am so looking forward to bringing this impactful new series to Channel 5’s viewers.”
The show will be produced by BBC Studios Factual Entertainment Productions and distributed by TVF International.
Adeline Ramage Rooney, executive producer and creative director for BBC Studios factual entertainment, said she was thrilled to have been granted such extraordinary access behind the scenes at the hospital: “We’ll be there in the operating room as medical staff try to make miracles happen and loved ones wait anxiously for news,” she added.
The series will be directed by Mark O’Brien and Cailean Watt with Jo Roe acting as executive producer and Abi Judge as series producer. Commissioning editor Rooney will also act as an executive producer and creative director for BBC Studios.
