13 hours Ago By Emily Godwin
ITV ’s hit drama Malpractice is coming back for a second series next week, and it may have lost fan-favourite Dr. Lucinda Edwards (Niamh Algar), but it’s bringing a brand-new doctor’s medical scandal to our screens with both old and new faces in the cast. Norma Callahan (Helen Behan) and George Adjei (Jordan Kouamé) will be part of another Medical Investigation Unit (MIU) case, this time scrutinising Dr.
James Ford ( Tom Hughes ). This Line of Duty-meets-Casualty drama was one of ITV1’s most watched new shows in 2023 and series two is set to pack a punch with a star-studded cast. Dr.
Ford’s “personal life is messy, and his colleagues may find him arrogant” according to the new series’ synopsis. “But he appears committed to his vulnerable patients.” It will involve a new mother’s postnatal check-up and the sectioning of a psychotic patient, aligning with writer and creator Grace Ofori-Attah’s background as a former NHS consultant psychiatrist.
Will the MIU manage to get to the bottom of the case again? The show will ask: “Is Dr Ford a doctor with a God complex, or a victim himself?” The new series looks to be part-gripping and part-tragic, with an almost completely new cast. So, let’s have a look at who’ll be turning up in the hospital next week. Hughes will be playing the new doctor accused of malpractice, Dr.
Ford. Hughes may be best known for playing Prince Albert in ITV’s Victoria, but he’s also starred in The Game as Joe Lambe and in The English as Thomas Trafford. It’s not Hughes’ first medical drama either – he started his career as Dr.
Harry Ingrams in the Casualty spin-off, Casualty 1909. He went on to be named one of BAFTA’s 42 Brits to Watch and has acted alongside plenty of the greats, including Dame Judi Dench in Red Joan and Anthony Hopkins in Those About to Die. Hizli will also be playing one of the medics in the new series, Dr Sophia Hernandez.
Hizli has been on our screens a lot recently – she’s featured alongside Daisy May Cooper in both series of Am I Being Unreasonable, which they co-created and wrote together. She’s also played Karen in BBC sitcom Things You Should Have Done. Hizli made a name for herself almost immediately after graduating from RADA, when she won the part of Connie Carter in BBC’s wartime drama Land Girls’ second series.
Telford is playing another colleague, Dr Kate Mcallister. Telford actually trained as a dancer until her 20s, but her first acting break was in ITV police drama The Bill. She went on to get main roles films including Rosalie Otterbourne in Death on the Nile, alongside David Suchet, and Eva Braun in Emmy-nominated Hitler: The Rise of Evil.
She’s absolutely no stranger to a whodunnit-style programme – Vera, Grantchester, Death in Paradise, Unforgotten, Silent Witness – I could go on. It’s not Warden’s first time on the ward(en), if you’ll pardon the pun. He played Ciaran Coulson, the troubleshooter hired to improve the ED, in Casualty and Toby Geddes in Holby City.
However, he’s better known for playing Mike Taylor in Happy Valley and Martin Roberts in The Jetty. It won’t be his first time co-starring with Telford either, having played roles in Death on the Nile, The Bill and Sherlock as well. He’s even featured in the Chemical Brothers’ 1999 music video “Hey Boy Hey Girl” and New Order’s 2001 music video “60 Miles an Hour”.
I wonder how useful his dancing skills will be in the hospital. Bhatti has most recently been on our screens as DCI Arun Kapoor in ITV crime drama Protection. He’s got plenty of experience in crime dramas, including Line of Duty, Shetland, Father Brown and New Tricks.
He may be familiar from Eastenders, when he played Yusef Khan, or The Sarah Jane Adventures, as Haresh Chandra. He also played Freddie Mercury’s father, Bomi Bulsara, in Bohemian Rhapsody. This cast will also be joined by Blue Lights’ Hannah McClean and Top Boy’s Seraphina Beh.
Malpractice is streaming on ITV from May 4 at 9pm.
