Donna adopts?
Donna was stunned when her half-niece Mia and Mia’s grandmother Patti were involved in a car crash, caused by Patti having a stroke. At Patti’s bedside, Donna found herself promising to take care of Mia if the worst happens. Moments later, Patti went into cardiac arrest and died, leaving her with the decision of her life. After much soul-searching the normally carefree nurse decided to take Mia under her wing as a stand-in mother. Will she be up to the challenge? Elsewhere, heads are turned by a fresh face at the hospital in the form of Dr George Kerman – a locum new to Holby. While George clashed with pregnant nurse Chrissie, he ends his shift taking smitten colleague Maria out for a drink. Meanwhile, Ric is adamant that he wants a divorce from Thandie…
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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.
An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.