Casualty (TV series)

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Television series
Original title Casualty
Casualty Logo.svg
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Year (s) since 1986
length 50 minutes
Episodes 1170+ in 34 seasons
genre Hospital series
idea Jeremy Brock , Paul Unwin
First broadcast 6 September 1986 (UK) on BBC One

Casualty ( German  both victims and emergency room ) is a British hospital - television series that the channel BBC One - mostly on a weekly basis - broadcasting since September 1986, mainly in the emergency room of the fictional hospital Holby City Hospital plays. Since 1986, over 1,000 episodes have been broadcast in 30 seasons. Since January 2009, Casualty has been the longest-running prime-time hospital series in television history according to the Guinness Book of World Records .

Description and characterization

The series mixes elements from the hospital series with elements from the soap opera , documentary film and political reportage and includes topics from the latest news. It is typical of the series that it shows the life of the patients treated in the hospital, even before they are sick or admitted. From the beginning of the series until the 1990s, the series criticized the British government for financial cuts in the British healthcare system . Some of the leading actors, including Derek Thompson , were avowed critics of cuts in the welfare state .

Derek Thompson is also the most frequently appeared actor on the series with over 600 episodes.

production

A picture from the 2005 shooting near Bristol. On the right is Susan Cookson, who plays Maggie Coldwell .
The logo of the series from 1997 to 2006.
The logo of the series from 2006.

The series was produced in London and until 2011 in Bristol . Administration, conception and script development take place in London; Filming , special effects and editing were done in Bristol. Most of the events described in the episodes are based on real events. Medical advisors are also used to create the medical stories. The filming of each episode takes ten to twelve days. Most of the outdoor scenes were filmed in and around the Bristol area. The Bristol Royal Infirmary teaching hospital was used on weekends to shoot interior scenes .

In 2011 production was relocated to Cardiff . Since the first episode first aired in 2012, production has been exclusively in Cardiff. This episode was also the first in the series to be shot in HD .

Episodes and first air dates

First broadcast
Season Episodes Beginning The End
1 15th 06 Sep 1986 Dec. 27, 1986
2 15th Sep 12 1987 Dec. 19, 1987
3 10 0Sep 9 1988 0Nov 4, 1988
4th 12 08 Sep 1989 0Dec. 1, 1989
5 13 0Sep 7 1990 0Dec 7, 1990
6th 15th 06 Sep 1991 Feb. 29, 1992
7th 24 Sep 12 1992 Feb. 27, 1993
8th 24 Sep 18 1993 Feb 26, 1994
9 24 17 Sep 1994 25th Mar 1995
10 24 16 Sep 1995 Feb. 24, 1996
11 24 Sep 14 1996 Feb 22, 1997
12 26th Sep 11 1997 Feb 28, 1998
13 28 05th Sep 1998 13 Mar 1999
14th 30th Sep 18 1999 25th Mar 2000
15th 36 16 Sep 2000 Apr 28, 2001
16 40 Sep 15 2001 June 29, 2002
17th 40 Sep 14 2002 June 21, 2003
18th 46 13 Sep 2003 Aug 28, 2004
19th 49 Sep 11 2004 Aug 20, 2005
20th 47 Sep 10 2005 Aug 26, 2006
21st 48 23 Sep 2006 0Aug 4, 2007
22nd 48 08 Sep 2007 0Aug 9, 2008
23 48 13 Sep 2008 0Aug 1, 2009
24 48 Sep 12 2009 Aug 21, 2010
25th 47 04th Sep 2010 0Aug 6, 2011
26th 42 Aug 13, 2011 July 22, 2012
27 44 Aug 18, 2012 20th July 2013
28 48 0Aug 3, 2013 23 Aug 2014
29 46 Aug 30, 2014 23 Aug 2015
30th 43 29 Aug 2015 July 30, 2016
31 44 27 Aug 2016 29th July 2017
32 44 19 Aug 2017 04th Aug 2018
33 ? 11 Aug 2018 2019

Seasons 3 to 5 ran on Fridays, the other seasons on Saturdays. At least in the mid- 1990s , the series averaged 14 to 15 million viewers.

evaluation

Jason Jacobs, author of Body Trauma TV , published in 2003 by the British Film Institute , said it was to the credit of the series that it created "a thorough political oppositional sensibility" on mainstream television, which has increased the demands on hospital series expectations . In this context, he also pointed out that the series had depicted injuries and illnesses with realistic special effects and make-up .

Awards and nominations

The series has been nominated at least 15 times and awarded 3 times at the British Academy Television Awards . Among them are three nominations in the category Best Drama Series (1992 to 1994), and four nominations in the category continued Best Drama ( Best Continuing Drama , 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009), in which it in 2007 also gave an award.

The series has been nominated seven times for the National Television Awards , including 2002 and 2010 in the category of most popular drama . There were three nominations from the UK Screenwriters Union (1996, 2011 and 2012), including one for Best Continuing Drama , in which the episode won Place of Safety in 2011.

Offshoot

The Holby City hospital series has been produced and premiered since 1999 . It is an offshoot of Casualty and is set in the same fictional hospital. So far, over 780 episodes have been created in 17 seasons (as of Sep. 11, 2015).

The police drama series HolbyBlue is itself an offshoot of Holby City . The focus is on the officers of a police station, also in the city of Holby City. From 2007 until the series was discontinued in 2008, 20 episodes were created in two seasons.

There is another spin-off series from Casualty , entitled Casualty 1900s, which is set in a London hospital in the 1900s . It is divided into three mini-series:

  • Casualty 1906 , 2006, an episode
  • Casualty 1907 , 2008, three episodes
  • Casualty 1909 , 2009, six episodes

literature

  • G. Hughes: Casualty: the BBC series - the role of the medical adviser. In: Journal of accident & emergency medicine. Volume 13, Number 4, July 1996, pp. 299-301, PMID 8832363 , PMC 1342746 (free full text).
  • Jason Jacobs: Body Trauma TV. The New Hospital Dramas , British Film Institute , London 2003, ISBN 0-85170-881-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Longest-running TV medical drama , in: Web presence of the Guinness Book of Records , accessed on Sep 11. 2015
  2. ↑ Ryan Love: 'Casualty' enters Guinness World Records , in: Digital Spy from Sep 16. 2010, accessed Sep 2. 2015
  3. ↑ Jacobs 2003, pp. 22-24
  4. ↑ cf. IMDb
  5. ^ Hughes 1996
  6. ^ First Cardiff produced Casualty episode to air in January , in: ATV Today , Dec. 13, 2011, accessed on Sep. 11. 2015
  7. ↑ Hughes 1996, p. 299
  8. ↑ Original quote: "a thoroughly political oppositional sensibility"
  9. ↑ Jacobs 2003, p. 24