Extra Doctors 'will keep ITV on its toes'.

In her first major move since becoming BBC daytime controller in March, Alison Sharman has ordered a number of 60-minute specials of lunchtime soap Doctors as part of a wider strategy to 'keep ITV on its toes', writes Leigh Holmwood

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