The TV drama "Ask the Heart" has topped the network and TV ratings charts.
"Ask the Heart" is a rare sharp and straightforward medical drama in China, which does not avoid the problem of difficult and expensive access to medical care for patients in the current society, does not modify the people's decision to give up when they are faced with the ultimate salvation, and does not cover up the plight of the doctors who are powerless to face their own family's hereditary disease, and who cannot heal themselves, the TV drama shows the complex ties and The drama shows the complexity and power of the bond between life and death, and this is the most valuable and touching part.
"Ask the Heart" is an urban medical and emotional drama directed by Lai Zhi and starring Zhao Yuting and Mao Xiaotong, with Chen Chong in a special role, Chen Hao Yu, Zhou Nomang, Yan Xiao Frequency, House Bin and Zhao Jun, and Jin Shijia in a special role.
The drama tells the story of Zhou Xiaofeng, Fang Xiaoran and Lin Yi, three cardiologists who meet at the heart center of Dongli Hospital by chance. The three have friction and collision due to their different professional backgrounds and philosophies, and then gradually bond and reach a tacit understanding in the process of treating patients and saving lives, and ultimately fight side by side in the battlefield of life. The drama was broadcast on October 7, 2023 on CCTV 8 and simultaneously on Tencent Video.
"Ask the Heart" will be aired twice daily in the CCTV-8 prime time slot, with 1 episode premiering at 20:30 on the first day, and exclusively on Tencent Video, with 2 episodes updating daily at 19:30 for members and 5 episodes at 20:30 on the first day, and 1 episode updating daily at 19:30 for non-members, and 21:30 on the first day.
Behind the Scenes
1. Scriptwriting: Screenwriter Zhou Yifei said that in the early stages of creation, he visited more than 10 tertiary hospitals, exchanged in-depth information with nearly 50 first-line cardiologists, added more than 130 healthcare providers and invited a number of medical consultants to follow up on the entire process of creation, from the outline to the screenplay, and from the selection of cases to each line. The movie was written by a number of medical consultants who followed the entire process, from the outline to the script, from the selection of cases to the deliberation of each line.
2. The filming process: In November 2022, the drama was finalized, and before filming of the episodes began, the lead actors entered a number of tertiary hospitals in advance for more than a month of internships and observation, following the doctors to sit in on clinics and treatments, and learning how to communicate with patients and gain experience.
The creative team not only built 8,000 square meters of hospital sets of different generations of old, middle-aged, and young people, but also a 3,000-square-meter cardiac center unit and ICU studio, and purchased and rented more than 200 sets of professional medical equipment such as ventilators, anesthesia machines, ECMOs, CRRTs, and so on.
Every surgical scene and every professional action during the filming process was professionally guided by a senior doctor from a tertiary hospital, and was filmed in the operating room of a real tertiary hospital for 25 days, with a total of 491T of footage shot.