Operation: Live
Double BAFTA-nominated series, in 2019 & 2020 for Best Live Event, this innovative new format follows surgery live, in real time, as you’ve never seen it before.
Series 2
This BAFTA-nominated series returns to reveal more life-changing procedures. Transmitted live for two hours over three nights – viewers witnessed a kidney transplant, a transformative spine straightening operation and vascular neurosurgery procedure.
The compelling drama of every snip, cut and suture was captured in riveting real-time detail.
Episodes – 1 x 135 mins, 2 x 120 mins
TX Channel 5 – 9th, 10th & 11th April 2019
Presenter — Nicky Campbell
Executive Producer – Ninder Billing
Series Producer – Emma Jay
Producer/Directors – Laura Mulholland, Kristin Hadland & Joe Myerscough
Liaison Producer – Joy Ash
Live Director – James Morgan
Production Executive – Victoria Thomas
Line Producer – Jackie McKinney-Dyer
Nominated for BAFTA Television Awards 2020 – Best Live Event (Brain Surgery: Live)
Press
Teenager to undergo life-changing spine operation that Princess Eugenie had.
The Garden’s BAFTA-nominated Channel 5 documentary Operation: Live has secured a recommission.
The Garden secures a hat trick of BAFTA nominations.
Series 1
This BAFTA-nominated series took three life changing operations and broadcast them live over three consecutive nights to give audiences a riveting understanding of the kind of procedures that happen daily across the NHS.
Starting with open heart surgery to replace an aortic valve in the heart, followed by a total knee replacement and finally an operation to remove part of the large intestine, the level of compelling real-time detail was unprecedented
Episodes – 3 x 120 mins
TX Channel 5 – 13th, 14th & 15th November 2018
Presenter — Nicky Campbell
Executive Producer – Ninder Billing
Series Producer – Emma Jay
Producer/Directors – Laura Mulholland, Ben Wilson & Anabelle Marshall
Producers – Alice McMahon-Major & Vivienne Perry
Live Director – James Morgan
Production Executive – Victoria Thomas
Line Producer – Jackie McKinney-Dyer
Nominated for BAFTA Television Awards 2019 – Best Live Event (Open Heart Surgery: Live)
Press
The Garden secures a hat trick of BAFTA nominations.
ITV Studios gives Operation: Live Aussie treatment.
Operation: Live viewers in awe of amazing surgeons as Channel 5 air open heart surgery.