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DVD Review: Holby Blue: Series 1

Holby Blue seems to suffer from something of a crisis of identity. Piggy-backing on the success of a medical series, it masquerades as a police drama when in actual fact it seems to want to be nothing more than a soap. With The Bill running bi-weekly on rival network ITV and the likes of Waking the Dead and various American imports fulfilling the higher brow end of the market, it’s questionable whether there is really room for another police series, let alone one so unsure of its own target audience. It’s watchable enough, but it all seems a bit pointless, and, for all its surface gloss and high aspirations, doesn’t really seem to have anything fresh to say.

A police drama spun off a medical series, you say? Whatever next? I get out my magnifying glass and gives Series 1 of Holby Blue a grilling in the interrogation room.