‘Transplant’ Season 2 Gets April UK Premiere Date On Sky Witness & NOW
Canadian medical drama ‘Transplant‘ is returning this April for a 2nd Season on Sky Witness and NOW the UK broadcaster has announced.
The series follows When Dr. Bashir “Bash” Hamed (Hamza Haq – ‘Quantico’), a charismatic Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, who fled his war-torn homeland along with his younger sister Amira (Sirena Gulamgaus), and became refugees struggling to forge a new life in Canada.
Season two picks up with Bash and his fellow residents reeling after Dr Bishop suffers a stroke. With everything at the hospital destabilized, the place that Bash had started to consider home suddenly feels precarious. As the team adjusts to new colleagues while dealing with the challenges of life, unexpected faces from the past leave Bash seriously doubting whether his transplant into this new world was successful.
In the opening episode, with Dr Bishop still incapacitated the team struggles to find their footing in his absence. Bash’s life is upended when he is reunited with an unexpected woman from his past. A bus full of kids crashes and sends the team racing to the scene. June has an important career decision to make.
Alongside Hamza Haq and Sirena Gulamgaus, the drama stars Laurence Leboeuf as Dr. Magalie “Mags” Leblanc, John Hannah as Dr. Jed Bishop, Jim Watson as Dr. Theo Hunter, Torri Higginson as Claire Malone, Grace Lynn Kung as Vivian Barnes, Sugith Varughese as Dr. Aajay Singh, Linda E. Smith as Dr. Wendy Atwater, and Kenny Wong as Arnold De Luca.
The second season introduces Gord Rand (‘Orphan Black’) as Dr. Mark Novak, the acting head of the emergency department at York Memorial following Jed’s stroke; Nora Guerch (‘Blue Moon’) as Rania, an old friend of Bash’s from Syria whom he had believed for several years to be dead; And Atticus Mitchell (‘Killjoys’, ‘Fargo’) as Jake Cooper, a medical student supervised by Theo.
‘Transplant‘ Season 2 premieres Thursday 7th April 2022 at 10pm on Sky Witness and NOW.
