Breathtaking star Joanne Froggart - 'We had a two day medical bootcamp for new Covid drama'

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The three-part ITV drama, Breathtaking, has been nothing short of a huge success, gripping the nation with a fictional version of what frontline life was like for NHS doctors at the height of the Covid pandemic. However, the emotional storyline is closer to the truth than most would care to believe, with the day-to-day life of Dr Rachel Clarke heavily leaned on from events that happen in her book of the same title.

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Joanne Froggatt has returned to TV screens this week, starring in the new ITV drama Breathtaking, focusing on what it was like being on the NHS frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic. The actress plays an NHS doctor who leads her team on a desperate struggle to deal with the first wave of patients, infected by the virus.

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A new drama revealing the harrowing reality of what it was like for doctors and medical professionals during the first wave of the pandemic is being aired on ITV. The first episode of the three-part series will be shown on TV screens tonight (Monday, February 19) and follows acute medicine consultant Dr Abbey Henderson, played by Joanne Froggatt, as she struggles with her team to deal with the first wave of Covid-19 patients.

Joanne Froggatt is currently starring in the new ITV series Breathtaking, as Dr Abbey Henderson, an NHS doctor working during the Covid pandemic.The three-part drama series launched today (19 February) and is just one of the huge TV roles the actress has secured over her impressive career. Speaking about her new role, Joanne told Mail Online: "Soon after I began reading the first episode I started to cry.That’s never happened to me before in 27 years reading scripts. Nothing I’ve been asked to be a part of has affected me, or shocked me, in the way this story did." Joanne, 43, has also starred in TV shows The Bill, Bad Girls, Robin Hood, Liar and Sherwood, along with being the voice of Wendy in the kids show Bob The Builder.

ITV's upcoming medical drama, Breathtaking, gives us a glimpse into the real-life struggles faced by NHS medics all across the country during the Covid-19 pandemic that gripped the globe at the start of the decade. The series focuses on Dr Abbey Henderson, an acute medicine consultant, and her team as they grapple with the initial outbreak of the deadly virus and a shortage of supplies.The show portrays the tough choices that healthcare professionals had to make during this time.The drama highlights the lack of proper PPE, infection rates, and how hospitals managed before and during the lockdown imposed by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

We go back to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in ITV1’s latest drama. Downton Abbey actress Joanne Froggatt stars as Dr Abbey Henderson, a front-line hospital consultant who fights to save her patients as the mystery virus becomes an ever-growing threat. Breathtaking is based on a book by journalist-turned-medic Rachel Clarke and has been adapted for the screen by doctor-turned-screenwriter Jed Mercurio.

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