I'm excited about BBC3's drama pilot season (starting this June), mainly because the last one gave us the excellent Being Human. The medical-horror Pulse is one of its three pilots (the others being dramas Dappers and Stanley Park), so I'm going to predict it gets picked up for a full series because it's more marketable. Being Human has done very well for the channel, drawing audiences that wouldn't otherwise tune in, so I think it's safe to assume they want Pulse to run when Being Human's off-air and inherit the same audience.
Pulse comes from the mind of comic-book writer Paul Cornell, who also wrote popular episodes of Doctor Who ("Father's Day", "Human Nature"/"The Family Of Blood"), and concerns a teaching hospital called St. Timothy's that appears to be a front for bizarre experiments. Trainee doctor Hannah Carter (Claire Foy) returns to the hospital to resume her course, following the death of her mother, and begins to glimpse the true nature of St. Timothy's, particularly when she notices her ex-boyfriend and surgeon Nick (Stephen Campbell Moore) acting very strangely...
Anyway, Pulse will be one to look out for this summer, I feel.
