She was introduced on 7 April 2022 as an applicant for the receptionist position at the fictional Sutton Vale Surgery, as part of a storyline that sees. Details surrounding Pegg's casting and Scarlett's characterisation were announced in March 2022. His latest film, Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn, opened at Sheffield DocFest before playing at festivals worldwide. Scarlett Kiernan is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera Doctors, portrayed by Kia Pegg. He has written material for Julian Clary, Paul O’Grady, Angus Deayton and Paul Zerdin among many others, and pantomimes for Julian Clary, Nigel Havers, Stephanie Beacham and Gok Wan. There is an element here of what might have been, but not enough, one would have thought, to make this salvage job worthwhile.ĭAVID McGILLIVRAY has worked in the entertainment industry in various capacities for 50 years. His horror films as a writer include House of Whipcord, Frightmare, Satan’s Slave and Terror. More recently he has written and produced a series of horror shorts, collected together as Worst Fears. (This sequence may have been shot by someone else to add a bit of spice). Madeline Hind (dreadful she must have been the director’s girlfriend) has a vision that makes no sense at all. Hassall does a little dance, sucks some blood and then falls to her death. We’re told nothing about the leading characters. There’s no exposition apart from a voice-over that gives us “the story so far”. Nothing adds up and this is almost certainly because not everything was shot. But otherwise, it’s hard to share Pirie’s enthusiasm. The Cyprus locations (shot by Desmond Dickinson, who won an award at Venice for Hamlet ) are pretty. Doctors (those with Oxford DPhils or the higher doctorates of DD, DCL, DM, DLitt, DSc and DMus) also have a scarlet robe worn without a hood at the highest ceremonial occasions the doctoral black gowns are therefore sometimes called ‘undress’ gowns. It’s interesting that vampirism is presented as a sexual deviation. One of the film’s few champions was Time Out critic David Pirie, who thought it was “the only remotely good thing” Hartford-Davis had done.

Doctors wear scarlet