ITV's returning show Malpractice has shared a first look at its second season, confirmed to air this spring.
The show, which has been compared to Line of Duty as the show shares the same production company, will follow a new case of suspected medical negligence as Dr Norma Callahan (Helen Behan) and Dr George Adjei (Jordan Kouamé) return to investigate.
A series of stills have now been released from the episodes, which you can take a look at below.
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The first season of the show was described as "excellent" by The Daily Telegraph – notably season 1 star Niamh Algar's performance – while The Times suggested it "feels like it has something new to say" as compared to other medical dramas.
"Malpractice is watchable, with strongly drawn characters," added The Observer.
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The second season focuses on psychiatric registrar Dr James Ford (Tom Hughes), who "finds himself caught between an anxious new mother’s postnatal check-up and the sectioning of a psychotic patient" while on call.
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However, "no one could predict the tragic outcome" of the shift, as Norma and George are brought in to look at the case.
Dr Ford appears to have a messy personal life and his colleagues find him arrogant, though he does appear committed to vulnerable patients.
"Yet what appears to be a series of bad choices by one doctor spreads beyond the psychiatric unit to a hospital seemingly at war with itself," the synopsis adds. "Is Dr Ford a doctor with a God complex, or a victim himself?
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"With the investigation closing in, can Dr Ford save his already fragile career from a string of apparently damning mistakes? And can the MIU uncover the truth of what happened despite fierce opposition from all sides?"
As well as Victoria's Hughes, season 2 will star Am I Being Unreasonable's Selin Hizli, Sherlock's Zoë Telford, Blue Lights' Hannah McClean, Top Boy's Seraphina Beh, Happy Valley's Rick Warden and Line of Duty's Ace Bhatti.
Malpractice will return on ITV1 and ITVX in spring.
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