BBC daytime soap Doctors ends after 24 years and 4,500 episodes

BBC StudiosMore than 4,500 episodes of the soap have been aired since it was launched in March 2000As medical TV drama Doctors says farewell with its final episode later, a 9,000-signature petition to try to save it shows just how much it resonated with audiences.The soap, which is set in the fictional town of Letherbridge, has followed the lives of staff and patients of a Midlands GP practice, for 24…