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Kate Lally

ITV Maternal: episodes, full cast, start date and time

ITV's new medical drama, Maternal, sees three three female doctors return to post-pandemic frontline medicine after maternity leave.

Producers say the women have to "to heroically balance the intense demands of the NHS and motherhood", and the show followers their lives across six episodes.

Maternal is said to explore "working motherhood with wit, warmth and humour and offers a unique perspective on our beloved, overstretched NHS, and the people who hold it together. Sometimes."

READ MORE: New ITV drama that was filmed in a Liverpool GP surgery

While it is set in Manchester, it was filmed in Liverpool. Many scenes were actually recorded at Edge Hill Health Centre on Edge Lane. Other parts of the programme were filmed in an office block at Liverpool Innovation Park, which was transformed into a "hospital".

Viewers will be introduced to Paediatric Registrar, Dr Maryam Afridi, who is full of doubt that she can cope with the emotional demands of treating children now that she has her own; Ms Catherine MacDiarmid, a single mother and successful surgeon determined to be one of the boys in the macho world of surgery; and Dr Helen Cavendish, a Registrar in Acute Medicine, who is wrestling with a self-prescribed role that sees her mothering everyone in her life.

How many episodes of Maternal are there?

There are six episodes, with the first being broadcast on Monday, January 16, at 9pm on ITV and ITVX.

Full cast of Maternal

Maryam Afridi - Parminder Nagra

Catherine MacDiarmid - Lara Pulver

Helen Cavendish - Lisa McGrillis

Jack Oliviera - Raza Jeffry

Guy Cavendish - Oliver Chris

Raz Farooqi - Abhin Galeya

Susan Fisher - Julie Graham

Lars Nordström - Alexander Karim

Maggie Cavendish - Aurora Jones

Steve - Mat Fraser

Anne MacDiarmid - Haydn Gwynne

Becky Hillford - Matilda Ziegler

Sania Masoom - Shaheen Khan

Kim Allerton - Sabina Arthur

Simon Segman - Dean Ridge

Edward - D’Vante Hart

Mrs. Williams - Cheryl Mackie

Mr. Williams - Darren Hart

Mrs. Osei - Cleo Sylestre

Tessa Joseph - Jennifer Macbeth

Louise Pennycook - Elizabeth Dulau

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