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The Good Karma Hospital
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Like a rock star's glamorous wife once she's past the first flush of youth, Dr Ruby Walker is in a precarious position.
With each new series of The Good Karma Hospital (ITV), she is in danger of being traded in for a younger model.
The role of Dr Ruby (Amrita Acharia) is simple. She is the naive newcomer, the innocent arrival from Britain who journeys to India in search of her identity and discovers she knows nothing about the real land of her ancestors.
Amanda Redman is her mentor, Dr Lydia Fonseca, the eccentric medic who brooks no nonsense as she dispenses lifesaving cures at her underfunded rural hospital.
Dr Ruby, played by Amrita Acharia (right), is the naive newcomer who journeys to India in search of her identity in The Good Karma Hospital
But Dr Ruby has been learning the ropes since 2017. She has handled every kind of emergency, been reunited with distant family, had her heart broken and acquired a tough armour for her idealism.
As the show returns for a fourth season, there is not much more for her character to learn. The simplest way to refresh the show would be for Ruby to leave and be replaced by a fresh face, gauche and impulsive . . . a younger model.
Good Karma's creator, Dan Sefton, has sidestepped that choice by bringing in another ingenue. Harki Bhambra plays Dr Samir Hasan, an earnest surgeon with a charity brigade. Ruby finds him at the side of the road in a broken-down pick-up. She fixes the engine and he promptly runs over her motorbike. They have already fallen in love — it's just a
