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Heartbeat

Premieres Fridays from 29th April, 9pm

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TLC, the UK’s fastest growing pay TV entertainment channel for women, has acquired the exclusive UK premiere rights to hotly anticipated US medical drama, Heartbeat from NBCUniversal International Distribution. The 10-part show, which is based on the real life and achievements of cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Kathy Magliato, stars Melissa George (The Slap, Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Wife) in the lead role of Dr. Alex Panttiere and will air on TLC this April.

Heartbeat is a unique character-driven medical drama that follows the professional and personal life of world-renowned heart transplant surgeon, Dr. Alex Panttiere. There is nothing conventional about Dr. Panttiere, who is as cutting edge and unorthodox in the Operating Room as she is with the two men in her life. Her approach to medicine is without boundaries, as is her approach to everything else in her world.

Between Dr. Panttiere’s hectic hospital life that includes a tumultuous love triangle with two brilliant but stubborn surgeons (Dave Annable and Don Hany) and her household of two kids and a homosexual rock star ex-husband (Joshua Leonard), Alex is constantly striving to overcome numerous daily obstacles and be the best mother and doctor possible.

Alongside Melissa George are Dave Annable (Brothers & Sisters), Shelley Conn (Mistresses, Terra Nova), D.L. Hughley (The Hughleys), Jamie Kennedy (Kingdom), Maya Erskine (Man Seeking Woman), JLouis Mills and Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project).