From Belfast Telegraph - 02/09/2004

Billed partly as surreal soap and partly as innovative drama, the new Channel 4 comedy Green Wing was filmed in real hospitals - to the bemusement of patientsBilled partly as surreal soap and partly as innovative drama, the new Channel 4 comedy Green Wing was filmed in real hospitals - to the bemusement of patients


The sick and the lame queuing at Basingstoke General Hospital last summer may not have realised it, but the four junior doctors they saw emerging from a chauffeur-driven Mercedes were not beneficiaries of some fantasy New Labour rise in pay and conditions for the medical profession. In fact, they were comedians and part of Channel 4's bright new hope for its suddenly Friends -less, Frasier-less and Graham Norton-less Friday nights.

Green Wing is the ambitious and somewhat unclassifiable new comedy from the Smack the Pony creator Victoria Pile, and the end result of a lot of shuffling about of twin-battery packs. This is how Pile and her co-writers began to devise her new show more than two years ago - pushing battery packs, each with a caricature face stuck on with Sellotape, around her desk.

"Battery packs are marvellously weighty objects," explains Pile in her office at Talkback Productions, the scene of this unusual pastime. 'They're pleasing to shove around a table and act out scenarios with."

CraigJamieson88

P.S. Imagine lying in bed seeing Guy and mac standing there fighting :o hahaha