All Saints – bombs, murder and mayhem

Fight in the emergency - All Saints, Ch. 7

Channel Seven have announced they are not renewing the medical drama All Saints for 2010. Which is basically a good way of saying its axed due to budget concerns and poor ratings. I do feel bad, because it does mean putting a huge bunch of cast & crew out of work. But there is plenty of good reasons this happened.

There was two or three bombs scares, a helicopter crash, fires, gunmen holding hostages and even lockdowns due to massive outbreaks of all sorts of plagues. This is a hospital that was either cursed or just had a bunch of very bored writers behind it. With that amount of bad press stemming from a lack of security and control, there is no way a hospital like that would even get paitents let alone staff to man it.

Then the show recently took a spin, by introducing the Medical Response Unit, taking care of unusual situations that the locals get into. Which was always a series of un-realistic situations, like getting stuck on meat hooks at a butcher, sinking boats and farm accidents. All easily reached by an inner city hospital team.

Underwater surgery (happens all the time!) - All Saints, Ch. 7

Who still had time for day to day relationships with the rest of the cast. Australian television at its worst, because we realise that our country is not as action packed as America. So our hospital shows need more incidents and bizarre medical anomolies, our rescue shows need more people on the side of mountains, upside down boats and broken scalfolding on high rise buildings.

Watch the national news for three months, and see if you can count one of each, I strongly doubt that you would get even 50% of those events.

Long live the un-realistic aussie drama!