{"id":8396,"date":"2026-05-27T20:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8396"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:21:59","slug":"the-doctor-will-see-you-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/the-doctor-will-see-you-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctor Will See You Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 8pm on Wednesday, 27th May, as I was trying to get my boys to bed, my youngest sister Julie messaged me via WhatsApp. Considering I stopped watching the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006m86d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soap opera<\/a> over four and a half years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/leaving-albert-square-behind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ago<\/a>. The subject matter drew a blank, but the subject himself was actually my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the.alizaidi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Azaidi<\/a>, making his debut appearance on the show as Doctor Morton. My sister had recognised him as he had attended my wedding fifteen years ago, as a group of my brother-in-laws&#8217; friends.<\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/teg\/55318495051\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"BBC Eastenders Wednesday 27th May 2026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55318495051_387e760c11_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"BBC Eastenders Wednesday 27th May 2026\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/teg\/55318732089\/in\/album-72157605166817951\" title=\"BBC Eastenders Credits - 27th May 2026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55318732089_375654f448_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"BBC Eastenders Credits - 27th May 2026\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p>From 2012 to 2015 I was one of many fans of Ali out there, but perhaps one of the few reporting from his initial debut to his progress on both the small screen and interweb. More recently he had written several episodes of Channel 4 soap <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hollyoaks\" target=\"_blank\">Hollyoaks<\/a>. Unfortunately, over the preceding eleven years, YouTube no longer host those advertisements. I need to spend time and see if I can dig them out and update the embedded links. This just underlines the critical importance of obtaining offline copies of videos on the world&#8217;s number one video streaming\/sharing website. For reference, you can find them all below, in chronological order.<\/p>\r\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/television-commercial-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commercial Television Debut<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\r\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/beaming-with-pride\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beaming With Pride<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\r\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/the-most-sincere-form-of-flattery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Most Sincere Form Of Flattery<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\r\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/celebrity-endorsement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebrity Endorsement<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 8pm on Wednesday, 27th May, as I was trying to get my boys to bed, my youngest sister Julie messaged me via WhatsApp. Considering I stopped watching the BBC soap opera over four and a half years ago. The subject matter drew a blank, but the subject himself was actually my friend Ali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[91,198,204,210,2257,2258,555,888],"class_list":["post-8396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-ali","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-iplayer","tag-bbc-one-hd","tag-doctor","tag-dr","tag-eastenders","tag-iplayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8396"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions\/8414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}