"Holby City" (1999) TV series 1999-????

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Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

Release Date:

12 January 1999 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

See how they operate.

Plot:

The everyday lives, professional and personal, of the doctors, nurses and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the wards of the frenetic cardiac unit of Holby City General Hospital.

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Hospital | Doctor | Patient | Cardiology

Awards:

1 win & 6 nominations

Cast

Hugh Quarshie	...	Ric Griffin (234 episodes, 2001-2009)
Jaye Jacobs	...	Donna Jackson (199 episodes, 2004-2009)
Amanda Mealing	...	Connie Beauchamp / ... (193 episodes, 2001-2009)
Tina Hobley	...	Chrissie Williams / ... (186 episodes, 2001-2009)
Robert Powell	...	Mark Williams (160 episodes, 2005-2009)
Paul Bradley	...	Elliot Hope (140 episodes, 2005-2009)
Luke Roberts	...	Joseph Byrne / ... (138 episodes, 2005-2009)
Rosie Marcel	...	Jac Naylor / ... (131 episodes, 2004-2009)
Patricia Potter	...	Diane Lloyd (121 episodes, 2002-2007)
Phoebe Thomas	...	Maria Kendall / ... (111 episodes, 2003-2009)
Sharon D. Clarke	...	Lola Griffin / ... (110 episodes, 2003-2008)
Rakie Ayola	...	Kyla Tyson / ... (103 episodes, 2003-2008)
Tom Chambers	...	Sam Strachan (101 episodes, 2006-2008)
Nadine Lewington	...	Maddy Young (99 episodes, 2007-2009)

Also Known As:

"Holby" (UK) (informal short title)

Runtime:

50 min (season 1) | 60 min (season 2-)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

BBC Elstree Centre/ATV Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Trivia:

Holby City is filmed in what used to be a BBC office at Elstree Studios: Top of the Pops staff were moved out and hospital wards were brought in.

Quotes:

[to Matt who has just terrified a patient by using lots of incomprehensible medical terms when she asked "What's wrong with me"]
Zubin Khan: Next time you go anywhere near a reference book, look up the term "layman".

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Jam & Jerusalem: (#2.2)" (2008)

Series 4 shows that Holby isn't as bad as they say

As all the other comments have been made about only Series 1 and 2 and Holby is now near the end of its 4th series, I need to renew them. Of course I have grown up since the last comment I made ('mathewowen') and now realise that Holby City really isn't that realistic when you look at the hard graft and rush that goes on in real hospitals. It's true that a lot of the staff are more like counsellors than medical staff, and it's also true that a lot of the one episode characters (in every episode different patients are featured with their own storylines) come from soaps.

However, Holby City is still watchable stuff, and I think with the two new wards: Maternity and the Children's Ward, every episode is even more different, and there are so many new characters that are, for the most part, well played.

Holby is now viewed as a soap because of its all year round showing, and what with more staff storylines involving affairs and staff becoming patients, it's still good drama. Watch out for some eps where there are some scenes set in Casualty (Holby is a spin off of Casualty) with Casualty characters (likewise in a recent episode Mr Meyer was featured in Casualty being as arrogant as ever).

Okay, some could say that there are more staff storylines as the writers as exhausting the patient storylines. However, there are have been some pretty memorable staff storylines in the past 2 series, such as Mr Meyer being shot, Janice Taylor's (she's the consultant on the children's ward) husband having an affair with Sister Williams, Kath Shaugnessy playing victim to domestic violence, Liam Evans learning to cope with life in a wheelchair, Victoria Merrick being murdered (it was a classic 'whodunnit') and Danny Shaugnessy marrying an illegal immigrant who's first husband turned up though she thought he was dead, to name a few.

And the good thing about Holby City is that the whole set and atmosphere is like a real British hospital. You can almost smell the disinfectant!

Watch Holby City next time it's on and see for yourself. It's good drama.