More TV Shows They Should Make...

I've got the perfect idea for a new medical drama for the BBC: Holby City After Dark. Imagine it - a spin off from the popular hospital series in which the various medics battle supernatural forces during the night shifts. A sort of Torchwood on the NHS. Or Baywatch Nights with scalpels. Each week a different medical team faces a different menace. One week Ric Griffin could be battling evil Voodoo priests who keep resurrecting his surgical failures as zombies. Just imagine the pathos as he finds himself face-to-face with the vengeful victim of a simple operation he botched whilst under the influence of the wacky baccy. His whole background in volunteer medicine in Africa could be brought in as he brings his knowledge of local customs in Ghana to bear to defeat the Voodoo cult. The next week cardiac consultant Elliot Hope could be taking on vampires who are attempting to raid the hospital's blood bank. Oh, such irony as, instead of transplanting hearts to save lives, he's forced to hammer wooden stakes through them. That twitchy registrar of his, the one with OCD, could assist him - he'd spend the next few episodes trying to wash the blood off of his hands! As an added twist, Elliot's dead wife could come back as a vampire, forcing him to find blood to keep her alive!

The possibilities are endless - perhaps one of those illegal animal organs into humans transplants Ric's sidekick Abra keeps doing goes horribly wrong, resulting in a were-pig, or something. Maybe one of the plastic surgeons could go crazy and start stitching together bits of bodies to create a perfect woman, which turns out to be a monster. Or, that bloke who used to be in Coronation Street could find himself fighting mutated viruses down in the path lab! Actually, if we're going to shamelessly rip off Darkplaces, why not go the whole hog and have Dr Rick Dagless transferred to Holby to take over as head surgeon, bringing Thornton Reed and his shotgun with him as the new hospital Chief Executive. Let's face it, it couldn't be any more bizarre than most of the current storylines on Holby City...