| The Royal Today | |
|---|---|
 The Royal Today titles | |
| Genre | Medical drama |
| Created by | Ken Horn |
| Written by | Sarah Bagshaw Darren Fairhurst Mark Holloway Patrick Melanaphy Chris Parker Jonathan Rich |
| Starring | Andrew Scarborough Paul Nicholas Kirsty Mitchell Fiona Dolman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 50 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including adverts) |
| Production company | ITV Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 7 January – 14 March 2008 |
| Related | |
| The Royal Heartbeat | |
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The Royal Today is a British medical drama, and a spin-off of the similarly themed drama, The Royal. The concept is that whilst The Royal is set in the late 1960s, The Royal Today featured the same hospital in the present day, with a new set of characters working in the same location. Each episode followed the events of a single day, and the show was broadcast daily (except for the weekends), so the series could be said to progress in real time.
The first series of 50 half-hour episodes began on 7 January 2008 on the ITV network airing from 4 pm-4.30 pm.[1] Although there were a number of running storylines, the series generally eschewed the use of cliffhangers.[2] The series was axed in March 2008 after poor ratings, on an average of 1.175 million viewers.
- ^ "The Royal Today[07/01/2008] (2008)". Archived from the original on 21 January 2021.
- ^ "DRAMA: The Royal Today". 14 March 2008.