Has Donna got a new love?

Has Donna got a new love?
Has Donna got a new love? (Image credit: BBC)

Hopelessly unlucky in love Donna Jackson has a change in fortunes this week when a handsome new stranger arrives at Holby City. Having earlier in the day made a plea to hospital boss Henrik Hanssen to stop using overpaid agency nurses, Donna is forced to rethink her stance when hunky new agency nurse Kieran reports for duty. Kieran (played by former Hollyoaks bad boy Barry Sloane) pops up assisting Donna with a difficult patient and it's clear there's a chemistry between the pair. The cheeky newcomer doesn't waste any time in asking Donna out on a date, but when Donna overhears him also chatting up another nurse, she turns him down for being a player. Later, after Keiran covers for Donna when Hanssen is on the warpath about an administrative error, Donna has no option but to relent and agree to repay Keiran by agreeing to the date. Is love in the air for the young nurse? Also this week: Ollie deals with an asylum seeking patient whose refusal to speak puts her life in danger; Penny is angry after Michael delays writing a report.

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Patrick McLennan

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.