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Holby City is a Medical Drama Television Serial broadcast on BBC1 in the United Kingdom .


THE PROGRAMME


''Holby City'' began in January 1999 as a Spin-off from '' Casualty '' and is named after the fictional Holby City Hospital in which it is set. The show follows the lives and careers of staff and patients at the hospital and also deals with a range of clinical and ethical issues. The regular characters are all staff, and patients are played by guest actors (occasionally including some famous names such as Eric Sykes , Phill Jupitus , Michael Jayston , Michele Dotrice and Ronni Ancona ).

The show was originally commissioned as a series shown as part of the BBC's winter schedules. It proved sufficiently popular to be recommissioned from October 2001 as a serial to be broadcast all year round.

The cast has included a variety of actors in regular roles, from new faces to established film and television actors such as Art Malik , Robert Powell and Denis Lawson .


CASUALTY@HOLBY CITY


Reflecting ''Holby City'''s origins as a spin-off from ''Casualty'' and the closely-related premises of the two programmes, the BBC has screened occasional crossover mini-dramas entitled ''Casualty@Holby City'' and featuring a number of characters from each of the two casts. There have been four stories involving both casts:

  • December 2004 - A Christmas special featuring a fuel Tanker lorry crashing into the Accident & Emergency department of Holby City Hospital. ''Casualty'' character Jim Brodie died rescuing his colleagues from the burning hospital building.


  • August 2005 - As part of the BBC's DoNation season, raising the profile of Organ Donation issues, an Interactive mini-series was screened and viewers voted for one of two patients to receive an organ donation in the show. The plot was designed to raise awareness of the scarcity of organs and encourage viewers to consider joining the NHS Donor Register.


  • October 2005 - A week-long Hallowe'en crossover focusing on issues around youth violence, featuring an ambulance hijack and an assault on character Comfort Newton by pupils at a failing Secondary School .


  • December 2005 - A further crossover was screened during the BBC's 2005 Christmas programming, which saw the return of popular former character Mr Nick Jordan (played by Michael French ), and a group of staff involved in a road collision.



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