"Casualty" (1986)TV-Serie 1986-????

... Schöpfer:

Jeremy Brock
Paul Unwin

Staffeln:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22

Premierendatum:

28. September 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City hospital.

Plot Keywords:

Father Son Relationship | Death | Marriage | Children | Troubled Teen

Filmpreise:

6 wins & 16 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

British version of ER

Besetzung

Derek Thompson	...	Charlie Fairhead (274 Folgen, 1986-2008)
Ian Bleasdale	...	Josh Griffiths / ... (249 Folgen, 1991-2007)
Simon MacCorkindale	...	Harry Harper (228 Folgen, 2002-2008)
Suzanne Packer	...	Tess Bateman (216 Folgen, 2003-2008)
James Redmond	...	John 'Abs' Denham (204 Folgen, 2003-2008)
Martina Laird	...	Comfort Jones / ... (195 Folgen, 1995-2006)
Susan Cookson	...	Maggie Coldwell / ... (168 Folgen, 1998-2008)
Janine Mellor	...	Kelsey Phillips (137 Folgen, 2005-2008)
Matthew Wait	...	Luke Warren (129 Folgen, 2003-2006)
Elyes Gabel	...	Gurpreet 'Guppy' Sandhu / ... (128 Folgen, 2001-2007)
Elizabeth Carling	...	Selena Donovan / ... (127 Folgen, 2003-2007)
Catherine Shipton	...	Lisa 'Duffy' Duffin / ... (124 Folgen, 1986-2006)
Kwame Kwei-Armah	...	Finlay Newton / ... (121 Folgen, 1994-2004)
Luke Bailey	...	Sam Bateman / ... (111 Folgen, 2002-2007)

Alternativ:

Casual+y (UK) (alternative spelling)

Länge:

50 Min

Produktionsland:

UK

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Tonverfahren:

Stereo

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:PG

Drehorte:

Bristol, England, UK

Firma:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Dies und das:

Initially, the producers made no secret of the fact that Holby was a fictitious name for Bristol. However when a new producer, Peter Norris, was brought in for Season 4, he decided to play down the association between Holby and Bristol, and so Duffy's West Country accent disappeared and fewer recognizable Bristol locations were used.

Dialogzitate:

Tina Seabrook: What are you doing? Where the hell are you going?
Sean Maddox: Tina.
Tina Seabrook: Did you forget to say goodbye or something?
Sean Maddox: Tina.
Tina Seabrook: I can't believe you were going to go without even saying anything. To Australia without even saying goodbye. What where you thinking? Did you think I wouldn't notice? You lied. How could you just go?
Sean Maddox: Listen, it's not like that. You don't understand, and I can't explain.
Tina Seabrook: You owe it to me to try.
Sean Maddox: I need to take ten steps back. I don't want to look back on my life thinking I could have done more.
Tina Seabrook: Yeah, but you don't have to run away half way across the world.
Sean Maddox: It's just something I have to do.
[...]

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British version of ER

I'm sorry but I am beginning to see a pattern of British dramas which I dare say is quite bland. The acting, the writing, and even the sets are just similar. Holby City and Casualty are two separate shows but I can't tell the difference. The actors and actresses look the same and I'm sure that the cast of characters of one show end up in the other at one point. Does it matter? Is Casualty popular enough to have spin off series like Holby City? I can't answer it because I don't live in the United Kingdom. It would be nice to see a familiar face among the cast. I watched Coronation Street and see the familiar faces of some cast members. EastEnders is popular simply because Wendy Richard who played Pauline Fowler for 21 years was the heart and soul and not to mention that she was a cast member of the popular comedy, Are you Being Served? and Barbara Windsor who is better known for her roles in Carry On series. That's the problem, I think the shows are stepping stone. In America, we have actors and actresses who have stayed and that's important is the regularity. I'm not saying that British soaps are bad. No way, British soaps like Casualty and Emmerdale are an important factor of British culture. I encourage people especially tourists to watch them. British soaps can be both funny and sad, happy and entertaining as well as enlightening. Don't think that I don't appreciate the British contribution to soaps because I think Britons are quite appreciative of their existence where as in America for example, soaps are only the stepping stone to their careers and sometimes the highlight.