The last episodes will air in December next year.
The medical drama has graced our screens since 2000, regularly taking the lunchtime slot, but it will come to an end in December next year.This latest bank of episodes being filmed will be the last, as the show is said to be no longer affordable in the BBC's budget for daytime. Filming will end in March 2024, with the final episodes set to air in December.
"With a flat licence-fee, the BBC’s funding challenges mean we have to make tough choices in order to deliver greater value to audiences. We remain fully committed to the West Midlands and all of the funding for Doctors will be reinvested into new programming in the region. We would like to thank all the Doctors cast and crew who have been involved in the show since 2000."
Fans had long suspected the show might be cut when it went on its usual summer break even earlier this year. Back in June, they confirmed the show would be off air again until Monday 4th September." Sources have told The Sun of the 'seismic' effect the end of the drama will have on the industry: "Doctors has ticked along fairly quietly around the 1.3million viewers mark for years now without any word of cancellation, but the news will still come as a shock. A full cast and crew meeting was held today where the news was shared and then a lunch was laid on in the Drama Village café.
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