The Good Karma Hospital is a medical drama series produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for ITV about a disillusioned doctor, Ruby Walker, who travels to South India hoping to make a fresh start. It stars Amanda Redman, Amrita Acharia, James Krishna Floyd, and Neil Morrissey. The series is shot in Unawatuna in southern Sri Lanka, Thiranagama Golden Beach Restaurant and some other places in Galle District. The Good Karma Hospital was recommissioned for a second and a third series. Filming for the second series started in August 2017 and it was broadcast from 18 March 2018. Series 3 first aired in October 2019 in Australia, with a UK premiere in March 2020. A fourth series started airing in the UK on 23 January 2022. In November 2022 it was announced that the show has been cancelled after its fourth series. Plot A medical drama about a junior doctor, Ruby Walker, who becomes disillusioned with her life and broken relationship, and decides to leave the UK. Seeing an advertisement for a hospital job in south India, she travels there hoping to make a fresh start and finds herself working at The Good Karma Hospital, an under-resourced and overworked cottage hospital run by an eccentric English expat, Dr. Lydia Fonseca. Cast and characters Amanda Redman as Dr Lydia Fonseca Amrita Acharia as Dr Ruby Walker James Floyd as Dr Gabriel Varma Neil Morrissey as Greg McConnell Darshan Jariwala as Dr Ram Nair Sagar Radia as AJ Nair (Series 1–3) Nimmi Harasgama as Mari Rodriguez Phillip Jackson as Paul Smart (Series 1–2, 4) Phyllis Logan as Maggie Smart (Series 1, cameo Series 2) Priyanka Bose as Dr Aisha Ray (Series 3) Scarlett Alice Johnson as Tommy McConnell (Series 3) Kenneth Cranham as Ted Dalrymple (Series 3) Rebecca Ablack as Dr Nikita 'Niki' Sharma (Series 4) Harki Bhambra as Dr Samir Hasan (Series 4) Raquel Cassidy as Frankie Martin (Series 4) Ritvik Sahore as Atul Nadar (Series 1) Episodes <onlyinclude> Series 1 (2017) Series 2 (2018) Series 3 (2019) Series 4 (2022) Reception On Rotten Tomatoes season 1 received an 80% rating based on reviews from 5 critics. Gayle Pennington of the St. Louis Post Dispatch described the first season as “a magical combination of familiar and exotically foreign…. a drama you’ll remember long after you finish watching it.“ Writing for the Indian digital news publication Scroll, Vikram Johri says: ”The series…has its heart