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Reef Doctors

Produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions
in association with Network Ten, ZDF Enterprises

Producers: Jonathan M. Shiff, Lisa McCune
Executive Producers: Jonathan M Shiff, Julia Adams, Rick Maier
Writers: tba
Director: Colin Budds, Grant Brown

Airing: 2012... (Ten)

"Lisa McCune stars as Dr Sam Stewart, the Sherlock Holmes of tropical medicine and the head doctor in the only medical clinic for the Great Barrier Reef Islands. Sam leads a handful of dedicated practitioners hoping to extract the hidden secrets from venom that have the power to cure some of the world's most fatal diseases. On a daily basis, her small team of medics deals with everything from deadly snakebites and jellyfish stings, to divers with the bends and tropical diseases that can spread like wildfire. But it's not all medical emergencies and dramas for the vendomdocs on Hope Island. Life's also an adventure — wind surfing, scuba diving, abseiling, and at night, kicking back at the Backpackers Hostel, and in the steamy, romantic tropical nights at the end of a long day, maybe even finding love."