To think that Casualty is the worst programme on TV?

[Yawnychops]

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?

Yes I liked the Bill too. And still call him Smithy despite the fact I've watched him in Waterloo rd & Casualty since.

I love it, have done since it started! YABU!

Casualty makes me so happy. Fletch will always be Smithy to me though. Loved him then as well.

I've actually loved the Fletch/Tess storyline. I love them all.

NOT loving the violin version if the theme tune though!!!

Agree that Zoe and Nick are great characters,

Couldn't stand Dylan though, and hated that whiny, self obsessed nurse Jessica that Adam Trueman hooked up with.

Loved it back in the day when Megan was a nurse, and Duffy, anyone remember how she started with a very definite West Country accent, which totally disappeared in later series?

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.

Oh, I dunno, I've seen episodes where they've deliberately led us astray. Lots of moody focus on the ladder, say, and then elderly-person-on-ladder's spouse tips a kettle over themselves in the kitchen.

What bemuses me is the way that the patients start telling the staff their convoluted life stories as soon as they fetch up in A&E. I must be strange, it simply never occured to me to do that that time I broke my ankle.

Oh yes Jessica, I'd blanked out forgotten about her, I hated her!
Don't be nasty about Dylan though, he was sweet really. I couldn't understand how he was so obviously aspie and no one ever mentioned it.
I must be strange, it simply never occured to me to do that that time I broke my ankle.
Maybe you would have if you'd gone in Dixie's ambulance. I reckon she's a bit over-zealous with the morphine .

OK Pixel,

I'll take it back about Dylan, I do like Dixie though,

I think Jeff is my favourite character at the moment, I haven't seen Saturday's episode yet, was at the panto with DD2, so have yet to catch up.

I liked Gray O Brien when he was in it,

Sure his character developed MS and left to murder everyone in Weatherfield

Jolly good, after all he loved his dog, he couldn't have been that bad .

Well anyone who loves animals is a good egg in my book,

Ok, so I do like Dylan after all

Do medical staff watch Casualty/Holby for the same reason that my ex-teacher parents watch Waterloo Road?

To spend the entire programme going 'that'd never happen'?

They seem to relish the far fetched and inaccature nature of the show and endlessly bleating on about it.

Hell, even I watch Waterloo Road and think "That would never happen!^ and I have no teaching experience whatsoever!