What is the difference between these 2 programmes as they seem the same to me.

Its the same program, same props, same story, half the same actors and the are both rubbish!

Nooo! Holby and Casualty are fab!

It's set in different departments within the same fictitious hospital. I think the BBC decided that Casualty has been so successful over a long period of time that they would do a spin-off series with Holby City.

Holby covers maternity, general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery and a ward for patients er, having surgery. Casualty covers the casualty department and the paramedic team. Sometimes the actors pop up in the other programme to cover a story but it doesn't happen that often.

I don't like Holby City so much these days. It's gone downhill since Anton Maya left. Rik's by far the strongest character, but I can't stand the new MD.

Casualty's OK most of the time, but Lara, Simon, Harry and now Jim have turned into complete a***h***s! And now it looks like Charlie's leaving! Charlie Fairhead's an institution! I think we should start a petition.

Anton Maya was a great character, he got some of the best lines. He must have been great fun to play!

I think the new MD is quite amusing. She looks like she's trying to bed all the guys despite being married. :nono:

Indeed it will be a sad day when Charlie leaves Casualty. I'm hoping he'll do a U turn and change his mind at the last minute or something! The actor who plays him actually looks quite knackered and as if he could do with a change!

Casualty is actually filmed at one of the hospitals in Bristol, in which they rent out dissused wards and medical equipment from the NHS, they also get medical equipment manufacturers loaning equipment out so they get some free advertising.

Have been told by a Bristol hospital worker that they've recently shot a fire scene on a ward.

With medic's like them stay out of town.

it's all a lot of bull.

Yak :loopy:

Hey you wouldn't want to work for Holby though would you?

It would only be a matter of time before you ended up in there yourself...!!! Shot, attacked, beaten up, house fire, pregnant, etc, etc.

They had lined up former footballer David Ginola to play a specialist doctor in Holby city but he was forced to pull out due to 'family commitments'. :D

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds15023.html

theres no diffrence....both series set in the same hospital,both are equaly crap!

Has anyone ever noticed this?

I'm assuming Holby is based "dahn sarf" somewhere yet all the characters, doctors, nurses, patients etc all seem to have northern accents, whether they be scouse, scot, yorkshire etc.

I assume all the locals are fit and healthy!!

Originally posted by mega_monty
Casualty is actually filmed at one of the hospitals in Bristol, in which they rent out dissused wards and medical equipment from the NHS, they also get medical equipment manufacturers loaning equipment out so they get some free advertising.

Have been told by a Bristol hospital worker that they've recently shot a fire scene on a ward.

Casualty's actually filmed In Bristol using the exterior of (If I remember the name correctly) Brunel College.

Interiors are filmed on a studio-set, presumably at BBC Bristol (...?)

Holby City is filmed (interiors) at the BBC in London, using a floor or two of the office block that tbe BBC owns, just by BBC tv Centre, Shepherd's Bush.

Which is why, out of the windows of the ward, you can see the same block of maisonettes that you could see from the set of Grange Hill, years ago before the series went downhill (Around the time the school merged with another school)

you can, if you look carefully, also see the same high-rise block in the background as you can see from the eastenders' set. (the one that "Kaffie-and-Peeet", and Ian Beale were supposed to have lived in, years ago)

And, Coopster, you say
"Has anyone ever noticed this?

I'm assuming Holby is based "dahn sarf" somewhere yet all the characters, doctors, nurses, patients etc all seem to have northern accents, whether they be scouse, scot, yorkshire etc.

did you also notice, that, Sister Duffy, when she started, used to speak, quite often, using a Brizz'l (Bristol) accent - or at least with a "west county burr". then over the years, the acrtess who played her, (Kathy Shipton) just stopped speaking "Brizz'l" and simply used her own natural accent?

But, yeah, to answr the original question, I had noticed that, each week "Casualty" seemed to focus on having groups of actors, from the same sort of area, but using a different regional accent each week. I'd sit there watching it, thinking...

"Ah, THIS week we are mostly having...

Scouse accents!"

then the next week it'd be Brummie, or Scots, or whichever....

The city of Holby must float, from region to region, I reckon!

that's it! Mystery Solved!

it's a peripatetic hospital!

One week it anchors in Liverpool, the next in Birmingham, and the week after that, in Norwich! ;)

Edit to add i think it must be so that we viewers think of it as being a generic city, and generic city hospital, and it doesn't become fixed in our minds as being any one area...?

PT

you are taliing about how they are exactly the same....they are...casualty and holby city are meant to be set i nthe same hospital but on differet shifts,thats why you see some of the cast from casualty in holby city and some holby city cast in casualty. Thats what i heard anyway....i think it makes sense