‘Good Karma Hospital’…more than a medical outpost, it’s a home.
Good Karma Hospital is a medical drama about a junior doctor, Ruby Walker, who becomes disillusioned with her life and broken relationship, and decides to leave her cold, grey world in the UK behind. Seeing an advertisement for a hospital job in south India, she travels there hoping to make a fresh start and finds herself working at The Good Karma Hospital run by a strong-willed English expat, Dr. Lydia Fonseca.
Amrita Acharia (Game of Thrones) stars as Dr. Ruby Walker who, unfortunately, while anticipating what one might think would accompany a coastal town in tropical South India with its sunshine, palm trees and picture-perfect beaches, she did not envision the tough realities of work at an under-resourced, over-worked cottage hospital.
Dr. Walker soon finds that Good Karma Hospital is, indeed, more than a medical outpost. It’s more than a home, it’s the beating heart of the local community as it turns no one away – locals, ex-pats and tourists are all welcomed through its doors. James Floyd also stars as Gabrial Varma, the impossibly stubborn doctor who’s developed a friendly rivalry with Ruby.
Shot on location in Unawatuna in southern Sri Lanka, there are a lot of familiar faces to public television fans of British content as GKH stars Amanda Redman (New Tricks), Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly, Line of Duty) and Phyllis Logan (Lovejoy, Downton Abbey).
Currently airing on a number of PBS stations around the country, North Texas viewers of KERA can begin watching Good Karma Hospital on Saturday nights at 7:00pCT beginning April 12. If you are a member of your local PBS station, you can also binge watch the first two series on PBS Passport.
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