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To think that Casualty is the worst programme on TV?

90 replies

Yawnychops · 04/01/2014 21:25

It is abismal. The writing is terrible and predictable and acting is even worse.

DH watches it every Saturday and every week I sit there watching it groaning and telling DH how shite it is, much to his amusement.

I think it's time a bomb was dropped at Holby hospital and the series cancelled.

Does anyone actually enjoy it?

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picnicbasketcase · 04/01/2014 22:30

YANBU. I've always hated it ever since I was a child. Just the theme music would fill me with a sense of dread. So bloody depressing.

jellybeans · 04/01/2014 22:42

I like it. One of the few programmes I watch every episode.

Clawdy · 04/01/2014 22:45

I loved it for years and hardly missed an episode then it all seemed to go wrong - endless stories set on the "rough" estate in Holby, and then Ruth and Jay left...! stopped watching.

Sallystyle · 04/01/2014 22:46

I love it.

It is predictable but it's all part of its charm.

Loved Catherine Tate's nan as well.

Timetogetup0630 · 04/01/2014 22:54

Love playing " Guess the accident".
It's Total rubbish.

iloveny001 · 04/01/2014 23:13

As a nurse I can't watch casualty. I get too shouty.

nennypops · 04/01/2014 23:19

YABU. It can't possibly be the worst programme on TV whilst the likes of TOWIE and Big Brother are on.

So far as the question of accuracy is concerned, it's endemic. Medics always complain about hospital programmes, lawyers complain about lawyer programmes, cops complain about cop shows. I think you just have to sit back and take these things as they come.

Pixel · 05/01/2014 00:44

I love it and watch every week even if it does make me shout at the tv on occasion. It's the only 'soap' type thing I do watch.

I will grant you that some of the characters are just irritating but they do a good disaster!

That singer on tonight's was appalling though, Mr NoTalent. Every time Robyn said "oh you're brilliant" I thought "Noooo, he has the right idea about not performing in public".

GW297 · 05/01/2014 00:58

I like Jay too and Adam!

sparklyma · 05/01/2014 01:29

Love casualty! Sure its completely innacurate but that's all part of the fun. Bit like Waterloo road for us teachers.Complete bollocks and innacurate but pure genius!

GW297 · 05/01/2014 01:35

Waterloo Road is another contender for worst prog on TV.

FortyDoorsToNowhere · 05/01/2014 01:44

Haven't watched it in years. I see enough of a hospital at work don't need to see a fake one when I am at home.

Thumbnutstwitchingonanopenfire · 05/01/2014 01:49

For me, part of the entertainment value of both Casualty and Holby was to play "spot the wild inaccuracies". Amused me, anyway.

Casualty · 05/01/2014 01:52

I loooove it. It's the only show DH and I can agree on and watch together. One night I was with DD on a Saturday night in the actual ED and one of the staff's mobile went off with the actual casualty theme tune, I was beside myself Grin

FluffyDucky · 05/01/2014 11:23

What the hell happened to the theme music?! I liked the dancey music, got me i the mood for the fun that was to follow. The new music sounds too serious.
I can feel a strongly worded letter to the Daily Mail coming on!

I jest. I can't write.

Morgause · 05/01/2014 11:28

How can it be the worst programme when there is so much reality shite on TV?

YABU.

MimsyBorogroves · 05/01/2014 11:29

I used to watch it years and years ago - when Charlie was back with Baz, and Josh drove the ambulance. And there were Jude and Matt and it was fantastic. Ooh, and Duffy!

Think it'd be disappointing now.

RedToothBrush · 05/01/2014 11:36

YABU

I love disaster movies. They are great because you know whats going to happen, its just a case of when it happens, who gets it and how they get it. There is comfort in knowing the plot and how its going to end.

One of the things that adds to this, is the ridiculousness of each demise and how incorrect they are. Its not a lot of fun to watch someone's misery if its factually accurate - thats educational rather than entertaining.

The very best disaster movies are ones are the worst ones due to their comic nature. Casualty fits very nicely in this mould, and allows to like the main characters over a longer time (before they inevitably end up under an aeroplane too, unless they are Charlie who is just there to stand gawping and saying how terrible it is).

And actually there are far worse programmes on tv, which lack any merit in their awfulness.

chateauferret · 05/01/2014 11:53

Is someone still broadcasting South Park? It isnt't possible to make a worse TV programme than that.

LineRunner · 05/01/2014 11:58

Who was that miserable woman in the ambulances with Josh? I fucking hated her.

In fact she was the main reason I stopped watching it for ages.

CiderBomb · 05/01/2014 12:53

I didn't even realise it was still on.

You could always tell what was going to happen. Someone would be driving a car and you'd think "they are going to have a crash" and then guess what....? Elderly man/woman climbs up a ladder, and you'd just know they were going to have a fall.

London's burning was the same. You'd see someone making chips and just know the chips pan would catch fire. Subtle as a sledgehammer.

JennyOnAPlate · 05/01/2014 13:39

Casualty used to be really good but we gave up watching it about a year ago because it just got really awful!

I don't understand how the guy who plays Charlie is still in it. He truly is one of the worst actors on tv!

BertieBowtiesAreCool · 05/01/2014 13:43

Oh I love it and how terrible it is.

LineRunner · 05/01/2014 13:45

Dixie. That was her.

Sparklingbrook · 05/01/2014 13:55

Oooh look here must be soon!