Holby/Casualty. Can someone please explain

[BendyBob]

I follow Holby, but not Casualty.

Once in a while they do that weird 'lets merge the two programmes to confuddle BendyBob and other confused old people' thing. One time they merged it with a police programme.

I mean what's going on?? I'm clearly the only one in the whole UK who doesn't get it. Is Casualty party of Holby hospital. I think it must be and no-one told me.

It's all wrong and upsets my brain.

Yes, you are right.

Casualty came along first. This is set in the A&E Dept of Holby Hospital and only really focusses on that department.

And then Holby started which is obviously based at the same hospital but is focussed on the other wards.

So there is some cross over, staff, patients being transferred etc.

Then along came Holby Blue which is about the police station in Holby.

All based in the fictious town of Holby which I think is meant to be down near Bristol.

HTH

yes. casualty is the emergency department of holby hospital.

it's all very true to life as in a real hospital they too only have 12 members of staff who work in all the different departments and shag each other in linen cupboards.

there was once upon a time a linked police thingy called holby blue which was the police in the city of holby.

Aaaah Thank you BBM.

It throws me, references to other programmes within programmes.

SHouldnt be allowed.

Tis like a thread about a thread!

I used to watch Casualty but not anymore.

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I have started to watch that One Born Every MInute thing (got interrpted by something it's on sky plus) and the lady on reception looked just like the woman on casualty's reception here

Made me think of this thread

I feel sorry for the people who live in Holby, their accident/illness rate must be so much above the national average, it must be a horrible place to live. The staff death rate in the hospital alone is highly concerning.

My goodness. Now I'm wondering if Silent Witness is actually part of the Holby mortuary and One Born Every minute is the maternity ward (we never see a maternity ward on Holby do we?)

Essentially it's all just one big programme connected via underground tunnels and the same 12 actors popping up like glove puppets.

Oh yes the satff death rate is terrifying. The stairs and toilets are fatal - littered with slumped bodies.

Actually, they did used to feature the maternity ward fairly heavily in Holby. You are clearly a Newcomer to Holby, BB.

Hm not sure how long I've watched it. I think I started watching it when that Zuben bloke was in it.

And I remember Owen. He was something to do with babies, but I don't remember a maternity ward. Didn't Chrissie assimilate him into her vast army of boyfriends?

You're right, I think I am quite new (and easily confused ).

They were only delivering 2/3 babies a week. much lower then the national average. The amount of illness/deaths goes way above the average, it's still a very dangerous place.

It's obviously a very good hospital though because Tess, who was impaled on a spike for hours and hours and nearly bled to death, was back at work within weeks.

I can't believe how Elliot is waffling on about Penny being unprofessional by seeing a patient when he covertly operated on his pet dog not to mention his own wife.

Living in Holby/Walford should carry a gov health warning according to BMJ study

Like Camberwick Green/Trumpton etc innit? All connected. The acting's not as good though.

I said that to my DH BendyBob!!

AM also strangely chuffed that Dr Rick and Thandie have got it back together (saddo me!), was Daisha knocking at the door implying that hey were doing the deed in the office???

I haven´t watched for a while.

The whole Faye/Joseph thing made me stop tuning in.

Sounds as if it might be interesting at the mo?

You know this condition Charlie has?

Could it possibly, please, be hereditary and could Charlie be OK, but Louis get it? Please. Soon. I can't look at Louis for much longer.

I think they had to stop with the gynae ward on Holby because both Mubs and Owen were such fantastic actors they were lured to celebrity masterchef celebrityzrated whatever Hollywood and they just couldn't find anyone bad good enough to take their places. (although the Valentine sibs could give them a run for their money.....

Do we think Faye really has murdered loads and loads of ex-husbands and stuff in the past? Should Joseph and his hand washing be afraid????

and how come Louis was born in 1996 and is now 17? Even I, (and I don't do numbers) can work that one out.

Thank Christ Elliot's dreadful daughter (another graduate of the Hospital Drama School of Acting Ability) has gone though. If only to be replaced by Linden's equally wooden one.

Addicted since the Very Beginning. (am very old)

the girl who used to play the one and only midwife is now in hustle

Yes, she scrubs up well, doesn't she? Still reminds me of Kylie round the gnashers though.

Actually Lisa Thing, (in loads of crappy ITV series, blonde hair?) was also a Holby midwife before she had her head put in the chip pan on Spooks.

i liked holby blue and do like both holby city and casulaty

i would also not like to live in midsummer - as there are so many people murdered there lol