''Nurses'' is a Canadian drama television series that premiered on

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on January 6, 2020. ''Nurses'' was created by much of the same team behind the series ''

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'', including Ilana Frank,

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, Vanessa Piazza and

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. The series was renewed for a second season by Global in early 2020.

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ran the first season in the United States beginning on December 7, 2020, due to the shortage of programs during the lockdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, but did not pick up the second season.

Premise

The series centers on a group of nurses at a busy

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hospital.

Cast and characters

Main

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as Grace Knight *

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as Ashley Collins * Jordan Johnson-Hinds as Keon Colby * Sandy Sidhu as Nazneen Khan * Donald Maclean Jr. as Wolf Burke

Recurring

* Cathy White as Sinead O'Rourke * Ryan-James Hatanaka as Dr. Evan Wallace * Tristan D. Lalla as Damien Sanders *

Nicola Correia-Damude Nicola Correia-Damude (born 21 June 1981) is a Canadian actress based in Toronto. Career Television and film Correia-Damude has had recurring roles on ''Shadowhunters'', ''Annedroids'', '' The Boys'' and ''The Strain''. Additional television c ...

as Dr. Vanessa Banks *

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as Kabir Pavan *

Alexandra Ordolis Alexandra Ordolis (born July 9, 1986) is a Greek-Canadian actress having had roles as Sister Delphine on the 2015 TV series ''Reign'', Shelly in '' The Mist'' (2017), Ollie in '' Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments'' (2018) and Caro in '' Nurs ...

as Caro * Trish Fagan as Dr. Rori Niven *

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as Dr. Thomas Hamilton * Ryan Blakely as Red *

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as Matteo Rey * Rachael Ancheril as Kate Faulkner * Katie Uhlmann as Candy Kemper *

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as Dr. Mike Goldwyn * Humberly González as Dr. Ivy Turcotte

Production

The series is produced by

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, which partnered with ICF Films and

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in association with Piazza Entertainment. It was renewed for a second season by Global, which went into production in March 2020. As of October 2022, there has yet to be an announcement for a third season.

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (2020)

Season 2 (2021)

Broadcast

The series premiered on January 6, 2020, on

in Canada. From May 2020, the series was broadcast by

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in the Netherlands. On November 10, 2020, ''Nurses'' was picked up by

in the United States for a December 7, 2020 premiere. The series debuted in Romania on the channel

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on September 20, 2020, under the title "Asistenți medicali". The series is scheduled to premiere in September 2021 exclusively on

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Controversy over "Achilles Heel" episode

The show's portrayal of

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in a plotline of the "Achilles Heel" episode was labeled as antisemitic by members of the Jewish community. In the episode, when the Hasidic Jewish patient is checked in for his leg injury, the patient's father objects to who the dead donor's bone graft might come from (along with his son participating in sports, in an extreme portrayal of a Hasidic

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) and says "a

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im leg. From anyone. An Arab, a woman?" The patient then refuses the bone graft procedure. In reality, Jewish law has no objections or prohibitions against such a procedure. Seffi Kogen of the American Jewish Committee called the scene 'the most antisemitic thing I have ever seen in a TV show", and that Jewish law "puts precedent on healing and saving lives ndthere is no prohibition on the kind of bone graft in this clip." B’nai Brith Canada said the portrayal "perpetuates false and dangerous antisemitic stereotypes" and called for the producers to apologize. The

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said in a statement, "the writers of this scene check all the boxes of ignorance and pernicious negative stereotypes" and that "Orthodox Jews are targeted for violent hate crimes – in the city of New York, Jews are number one target of hate crimes in US; this is no slip of the tongue. It was a vile, cheap attack masquerading as TV drama." In response, NBC pulled the episode from their digital platforms. The episode was also removed domestically in Canada by Global parent company Corus from Global's website and viewing apps, with no plans to air it in repeats in the future.

References

External links

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