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31 October 2007 - 2:50:00 PM
Reality TV comes to regional NSW
Reality television is about to take over Dubbo Base Hospital.
The hospital will feature in new medical observational-style TV show, to be screen by Channel 7.
As-yet unnamed, the show will be similar to the hugely popular Border Security which is one of Channel 7’s highest rating shows, and Channel 9’s RPA.
But the Dubbo version contains a twist - as well as exploring the long hours that doctors and nurses spend at the hospital, the show will also follow the patients’ stories.
The show’s cameras will venture outside the hospital and into the Dubbo community to learn more about the characters themselves, and their lives.
Filming starts in the next few weeks and will continue over the three months of summer.
Associate producer Joy Lynch said the characters would largely drive the show.
“People will watch for the medical side, but also the characters - they are unique,” Ms Lynch said.
“This is a snapshot of life at a rural hospital. It’s not just all inside the hospital’s stark white walls - here, we follow the patients home.”
In rural and country medicine, not all care took place inside the hospital, she said.
The show will seek to place the medical care in the context of what’s happening in the patients’ lives - so it could follow them home, into the town and their homes.
“It will deliver the country to the city though the story,” she said.
The show has been created by production company DSP Beyond, who was behind TV shows such as Saving Babies, Australia’s Best Backyards and The Singing Office, currently screening on Fox8.
DSP Beyond was in Dubbo earlier this year to film the pilot at the hospital, and also filmed across town at spots such as the farmers’ markets.
The show will air in 2008, and Greater Western Area Health Service - which has provided unprecedented access to the hospital for the show and has been working with DSP Beyond for months now - is eagerly looking forward to the first airing.
As popular as ever, reality TV is now splitting into different genres, production manager Tom Law said.
“Reality TV was popular even before Big Brother, which was a milestone that sort of launched it,” he said.
Source: Daily Liberal, NSW
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