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Game of Thrones's Amrita Acharia takes the lead in new medical drama

The show is written by Death in Paradise's Dan Sefton with scripts from Vinay Patel and Nancy Harris and was cast in both the UK and Mumbai.

It tells the story of a cottage hospital that remains a pillar of the local community, despite being dreadfully under-funded and staffed by overworked medics.

Lead actor Acharia played handmaiden Irri in the hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones before being killed off in season 2. 

Second series of the Durrells announced

The Durrell Family (Credit: ITV)

The announcement comes after the immensely positive reception of series one, shown in April this year, which was credited with helping ITV bounce back from several high-profile failures.

Despite the series being filmed in the midst of the Greek economic crisis, it became ITV's highest rated new drama series in 2016, with almost 7 million regular viewers.

ITV unveils tense trailer for new thriller Paranoid

Some of the Paranoid cast: (L-R) Robert Glenister, Lesley Sharp, Dino Fetscher, Indira Varma and Neil Stuke (Credit: ITV)

The drama, set in a fictional town in Cheshire, begins with the brutal murder of a female GP in a busy children’s playground.

Detectives working to solve the case are quickly drawn into the twists and turns of a dark mystery, which takes them unexpectedly across Europe.

The trailer hints at a psychopathic suspect, multiple murders and mind games, as well as a complicated love story and family tensions.

Stefanie Martini to star in ITV's Prime Suspect prequel

The show follows a young Jane Tennison (Stefanie Martini - Doctor Thorne) who, at 22, is just starting out on her career in policing in 1970s London.

The prequel is based on a book by Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante. It explains how Tennison became such a powerful presence in the London Met and the personal sacrifices that she made for her career.

Sam Reid (The Riot Club, The Railway Man) and Blake Harrison (Inbetweeners, Dad’s Army) also join the cast as Tennison’s superiors, DCI Len Bradfield and DS Spencer Gibbs.

This week's top TV: 11 - 17 July

Exodus, BBC, Refugee

Monday

Exodus: Our Journey to Europe

BBC Two

9pm

This three-part documentary series offers a unique insight into the intense and dangerous journeys made by migrants at the peak of the 2015 refugee crisis.

Migrants who were fleeing war, poverty or political upheaval were given camera phones to capture their journey to the relative safety of European shores.

They filmed where regular TV crews could not: on inflatable dinghies bobbing across the Mediterranean or in the backs of trucks as they were smuggled across the Sahara.

The thrill of escapism

Have you heard about the woman who named her new production company after her dog? She then went on to make ITV’s most popular new drama series since Cilla in 2014.

The Durrells, described by The Daily Mail as “a masterclass in ideal Sunday telly”, was the first show produced by Sid Gentle Films to be broadcast.

More than 6 million people tuned in regularly this spring to watch the sun-soaked, feel-good adventures of an English family struggling to adjust to life in 1930s Corfu.

Samantha Morton and Jessica Brown Findlay to star in Georgian prostitution drama Harlots

Jessica Brown Findlay (Credit: Paul Hampartsoumian)

Harlots follows Margaret Wells (Oscar-nominated Samantha Morton), a woman who struggles to reconcile her roles as mother and brother owner in the family drama that offers a new take on 18th century London’s most valuable commercial activity – sex.

“In 1760s London there were brothels on every corner run by women who were both enterprising and tenacious,” says Executive Producer, Alison Owen. “History has largely ignored them, but their stories are in turn outrageous, brutal, humorous and real.”