Breathtaking: how much of ITV's devastating new Covid-19 drama is true?
Hot on the heels of lightning rod drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, ITV is getting ready to release another massive drama: Breathtaking.
Set in the wards of a London hospital during the start of the Covid-19 crisis, it follows Abbey Henderson (Joanne Froggatt), a doctor who finds herself and her team battling a disease unlike everything they’ve ever seen before.
Though many of the show’s most shocking moments will already be familiar to viewers – releasing elderly patients to care homes without Covid tests, for instance – Breathtaking also examines some things that might make for unwelcome new information.
Drawing from real life experience
Appropriately for a show all about doctors, (yes, the ), Prasanna Puwanarajah and Rachel Clarke. Clarke still works as a doctor today, while Mercurio and Puwanarajah have both since left the profession (though both volunteered to come back and help during the pandemic).
