Monroe is a British medical drama television series created and written by Peter Bowker and produced by Mammoth Screen for the ITV network.

[4] Bowker told the Media Guardian that he had been inspired to create a series about a neurologist after his four-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour.

The drama entered the pre-production stage in March 2010, when Laura Mackie and ITV's director of television Peter Fincham commissioned it for the network.

[9] Actor James Nesbitt, who starred in Bowker's Iraq War drama Occupation, told the Radio Times in May 2010 that he had been cast in the series.

[11] The ITV Press Centre confirmed Nesbitt's involvement on the same day the magazine was published, and announced that he would be playing the title role and that the series would commence filming in Leeds in September 2010 for broadcast in 2011.

"[14] ITV's Autumn/Winter 2010 press pack refers to other characters in the series: "[Monroe's] trainees, his anaesthetist, his poker school – and his female colleague, heart surgeon Jenny Bremner, who has contempt for his cockiness.

"[14] While appearing on This Morning to promote his role in Mammoth Screen's Bouquet of Barbed Wire, actor Tom Riley announced that he would be playing Monroe's anaethestist.

[19] Series 2 begins on Monday 1 October 2012 Paul Herd (Jody Latham) and his pregnant wife Julie (Julia Haworth) ask Monroe for help.

Witney (Christina Chong) has been promoted to registrar, Mullery (Andrew Gower) has transferred to General Surgery and is now working under Gillespie

Lynn Monkford (Caroline Strong) has terminal brain cancer, Monroe has formed a close relationship with her husband Mike (Sean Gilder), she is here for surgery to reduce the size of her tumour and make her last year more pleasant.

Cardio Cases: Graham Birdwell (Martin Walsh) is about to undergo a double heart bypass with the help of his mentally disabled brother Geoffrey (Tim Dantay) Monroe is still reeling from the result of Lynn Monkford surgery in the previous episode.

Neuro Cases : Sally Indale (Jennifer Hennessey) has been experiencing fitting and episodes of aggression, and she is found to have a large aneurysm in her temporal lobe.

Springer has some legal issues Neuro Cases : Bridget Addy (Michelle Holmes), a lady with epilepsy is having problematic seizures Monroe decides to take out the part of her brain that is causing the problem.