Joseph quits Holby!

Joseph quits Holby!
Joseph quits Holby! (Image credit: BBC)

It’s a sad for the ladies of Holby City, as sexy surgeon Joseph Byrne quits his job and moves to the country. Following his recent run of bad luck and estranged wife Faye’s departure to France, Joseph has time to reassess the important things in his life and decides to prioritise son Harry above the promise of a promotion. Instead of taking the job, Joseph plots a move to the Lake District. But before he leaves the hospital, Joseph attempts an even happier ending by asking on/off girlfriend Jac to join him. However, knowing she’ll always play second fiddle to Faye’s son, Jac tearfully declines the offer and waves Joseph off into the sunset. Elsewhere, Frieda learns she’s being lined up for redundancy, but Penny plots to get her to train as a doctor. Sacha desperately attempts to get Chrissie back onside.

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.