BBC Casualty: Activate the major haemorrhage protocol

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I don’t know if this has already been mentioned but home come Mr Whitelaw doesn’t wear a mask in theatre?

Also… this! Quite big news?

www.radiotimes.com/tv/soaps/casualty-location-wales-change-newsupdate/

That's a big change. Suggests the begining of the end of Casualty.

Also how they going to find another hospital where time, space and HR operate on another dimension!?

That's going to be so strange. Are they just going to ship all the characters to a new hospital en masse? Will Holby be shut down, blown up, or just quietly shuffled over the border without anyone mentioning it?

I don't think it suggests the beginning of the end?

Shows moving location is usually a sign of problems! It killed Grange Hill for example.

It does seem pointless. Everyone who cares about production knows the show is Cardiff-based and those who don’t, don’t care. This will mean lots of tedious storylines to move existing characters to Wales or, possibly worse, some totally unexplained mass relocation. That alone kills a lot of audience investment.

I really hope it's not the beginning of the end

I can’t imagine how it will be explained.

Although we always knew that Casualty was originally filmed in Bristol and then moved to Cardiff it was only ever presented to us as Holby, wasn't it? As such, I would imagine it had fairly even appeal throughout the UK. Will introducing strong Welsh themes lose some of the non-Welsh audience? And what it if isn't Welsh enough for the people of Wales; will they abandon it too? Just musing.

What Welsh themes are they going to introduce? I suppose the signage will become bilingual, and health is a devolved area, so funding would change.

But people will still have accidents and associated storyline, and staff will probably not pay any more attention to things like notice periods than they ever had.

Presumably they are also going to pop into Jan's house TARDIS and transport to a new Welsh location. Do we think they will take the newly discovered call centre with them? Will anyone be allowed to stay in Holby or will they magically relocate their kids to new schools.
I suspect the shark is about to be jumped.

They can just put the hospital in Jan's house, surely?!

I am totally here for the storyline where they explain how everyone has happily moved en masse to Wales to work in a totally different hospital.

So why are they actually putting the move to Wales in the storyline then? I mean what's the point?

See that's why I think it's the beginning of the end (like Grange Hill).

The explanation seems to be it's "an opportunity to introduce new characters and continue to reflect a diverse modern Britain."

Who knows why that can't continue to happen in Holby!! Back in the good old days they'd have blown up the hospital and claimed the new set was the rebuild

Least all Dylan needs to do is sail his house to Wales.

Oh god I'm actually a bit worried now that it's the beginning of the end

I will be so sad if they ruin it and kill it off. The whole beauty of 'Holby' is that it's everywhere and nowhere, so it shifted seamlessly from being filmed in Bristol to Cardiff. If there's a whole big thing about relocating, however they play it, it will lose the sense of legacy. I just can't see it being anything but clunky and awful.

Waterloo Road managed it (for a couple of seasons). And it's not actually going to move, it'll still be filmed on the same soundstage. And it all depends on someone actually picking up the tender.

Bristol to say, Newport (nothing actually mentions Cardiff) is a 50 minute drive down the M4. If it were set in somewhere like Newport, half the doctors would probably have a shorter commute, if Wyvern is Bristol area. If it's moving to Llandudno, different story.

All the actors already work in Cardiff. Nothing needs to change in terms of the actors. The show is filmed in Cardiff.

Which is why moving the hospital as a storyline would make no sense, if the filming location won't change. Mind you, it's been a few weeks since they last blew up the hospital.

But Casualty is set in Holby, it has always been set in Holby. To suddenly relocate it to somewhere else is going to take some explaining. If a hospital in say Bristol closed/exploded/fell into a sink hole/was flattened by a giant piano falling from space 90% of the staff wouldn't magically all get jobs in the same hospital 25, 50 or 100 miles away, even if there was a convenient, just about to open but hadn't yet recruited any staff new hospital the Holby staff wouldn't all magically get jobs there.

We know all this. We’re not worried that the actors won’t want to commute. 🙄 It’s a pointless exercise which just creates a narrative headache for viewers.

Waterloo Road managed it (for a couple of series) is exactly the point. It killed the show.

Never before have I desperately wished for the inevitable wedding day drama to stop the wedding.

FFS Indie!!! 🙄

What an idiot

I don’t know what’s more idiotic…

Indie letting her father get away with that…

…..or Iain, a senior paramedic, forcing Stevie into going to his wedding when he had just found her passed out in the shower after having had recent major surgery….

For one split second though I did think he was going to kiss her at the wedding when Stevie went in for one….