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Holby..dear me does anyone apart from me still watch it?? (spoiler re latest episode)

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BananaNotPeelingWell · 21/11/2013 19:38

I only do watch because dh is still hanging on in there with it. I've def watched it for too long though. I mean really! Chrissie must have seduced the entire hospital three times over by now. She never seems to be more than three feet away from at least two current conquests. What is it with Chrissie and men falling at her feet?Confused And then there's the roof!! Is there a queue to jump off the roof? Most hosiptals or commercial buildings, it would be very difficult to get to the roof. Not on Holby. And people leaving. Off they go in a taxi or a bus. Loads and loads of them. No-one works out their notice. No-one seems even slightly perturbed about the implications financially of just literally walking out of a perfectly good job to go 'travelling'. I think they must really be going to the roof because they suddenly realise how crap it all is. Gah the whole thing is so ridiculous. And everyone collapses in the corridor or the toilets. Please bring back Connie. I liked Connie. I liked Hansson before he went all weird and started keeping a bird in his desk. It's just terrible nowadays. Jac's the only one I like and they've set her up with an unbelievable storyline. No way would she and that nurse chap have got together.

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lostinteaching47 · 23/11/2013 11:31

It was Anton Mayer/Meyer, the best consultant ever, and Campbell Gore the Scottish bloke.

youarewinning · 23/11/2013 11:39

I watch it. Cannot fathom out why as the summaries here are spot on Grin

I love Jac Naylor - she keeps the humour in it with her one liners.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 23/11/2013 13:31

Liverpool bandana man was Owen (Obs&Gynae) who was married to Chrissie, they had a baby daughter who died. Then Owen took up with Chrissies Mum.

The Obs&Gynae used to feature really heavily in the old episodes

Mubbs? (And yes, Chrissie had him one NYE)
Rosie the married MW he was obsessed with
And Lisa the MW who was in love with Mubbs?

Ed (can't remember his surname)
And the one that had the muscle/neurological problem.

Remember when Gobby from Doctors played a Staff Nurse , Jeremey Edwards was her DS and Tony from 'dinnerladies' her abusive DH.

And Jimmy from Doctors was a male nurse?

Sandy the nurse who died IRL so they sent her off to Australia after a mystery lottery win.

Loved Ade Edmonson

Can't abide Chantelle.
Or Donna who went off with the Agency Nurse/ TA soldier when he was injured.

But I did love Patsy Kensit.

Never watch it though

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 23/11/2013 13:33

Oh the Dr who had the thing for Faye was Lyndon something.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 23/11/2013 13:35

And there was Sionhan Redmond in charge of Paeds and her DH Alistaire (another one Chrissie got off with) who was IIRC a NeuroSurgeon?

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jeee · 23/11/2013 14:06

Anton Meyer - no boring back story, no irritating teenage children clogging up his office. Just masterfully striding down the corridors, and demanding a scalpel for the next heart transplant.

lostinteaching47 · 23/11/2013 14:09

I couldn't remember Mubbs had to google him and came across this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Holby_City

It seems to have been on for ever!

diddl · 23/11/2013 16:08

Haven't watched since the days of Anton Meyer & Alex Adams.

RevoltInParadise · 23/11/2013 16:17

I love Holby Blush

I think Jac is great and I quite like Mo too. Chantelle is annoying. As is chrissie. I think Michael is a pain in the arse twit.

They do need some better story lines though. And I wish Jac would get back with him.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 23/11/2013 16:39

I'm an extremely occasional viewer who keeps meaning to watch it more so I don't even know people's names. Who is the intensely irritating dim witted blonde nurse who came back from somewhere a couple of weeks back? I like Jac too. She's the only one whose name I know!

HalleLouja · 23/11/2013 18:39

I loved Art Malik (who played Ric's friend the anaesthetist) and Jeremy Sheffield as Alex Adams they were both lovely. As was Ade.

WeileWeileWaile · 23/11/2013 21:51

Art Malik was Zubin & was fab!

Zubin and Rik were great together, until Zubin ran off with his best friend's daughter.

Lilliput · 23/11/2013 22:15

I have watched it for years on and off and in that time have trained to become a midwife. All I see now when I watch it is unprofessional behaviour, lack of confidentiality and really poor hygiene standards but if if was true to NHS life the chat would be about what cakes were in the tea room, who was ordering what from the avon catalogue and what is better slimming world or weight watchers.

Makingchanges · 23/11/2013 22:19

I love Jaq and Elliott. Used to love Zanib and Jeremy Sheffield and Luc Hemmingway and Anton Meyer. Holby is my guilty pleasure although worried that the staff turnover at the moment is watering it down.

FrauEnglischLehrerin · 24/11/2013 08:11

Of course it's unrealistic, but that's part of the fun. DH is a hospital consultant and still watches it. Favourite bit of last episode was someone saying "I ordered an ultraound" and showing a CT scan to their colleague Grin. Even I spotted that one!

I'm sure he's already been mentioned, but it hasn't gone click for me yet: who was the consultant who played golf all the time in the car park and was randomly friends with Maddie, the F1 who got stabbed in the toilets? The actor turned up very briefly in 24 season two-ish.

HarrietJonesPrimeMinister · 25/11/2013 09:09

I like it because its so crap see also Doctors , casualty and Waterloo rd

I only started watching again in the last year maternity leave has a lot to account for but used to watch it many years ago when it was on Obs/paeds

LineRunner · 25/11/2013 09:31

Oh God yes, Ade Edmondson and his pig organs.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 26/11/2013 20:12

watching tonight and robbie from taggart/ carl from corrie just breezed across the car park into holby to patronise serena

this will not end well Grin

HarrietJonesPrimeMinister · 26/11/2013 20:15

Watching tonight too. Bit WTF on heart ward

LineRunner · 26/11/2013 20:27

I'll watch it later if I can't sleep.

HarrietJonesPrimeMinister · 26/11/2013 20:49

Start to feel they are short of surgeons?

Lilliput · 26/11/2013 20:54

Thank god mallik is going.

Inthechelseahotel · 26/11/2013 21:09

Do you remember Eddie was a prostitute and someone got her to start work, just like that, after a night on the town so to speak Grin

Anyway do not say anything about Sasha as my kids want me to marry him standards have never been high on the husband front