Holby City (styled as HOLBY CI+Y) is a British medical drama
television series that airs weekly on BBC One. It was created by Tony
McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical
drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999. It follows the lives
of medical and ancillary staff at the fictional Holby City Hospital,
the same hospital as Casualty, in the fictional city of Holby, and has
featured occasional crossovers of characters and plots with both
Casualty (which featured dedicated episodes broadcast as
Casualty@Holby City) and the show's 2007 police procedural spin-off
HolbyBlue. It began with eleven main characters in its first series,
all of whom have since left the show. New main characters have been
both written in and out since, with a core of around fifteen main
actors employed at any given time. In casting the first series, Young
sought actors who were already well known in the television industry,
something which has continued throughout its history, with cast
members including Patsy Kensit, Jane Asher, Robert Powell, Ade
Edmondson and John Michie.McHale was the show's lead writer for
several years, and was the first British writer ever to become the
showrunner of a major prime time drama. Under his tenure as executive
producer, attempts were made at modernising the programme and
appealing to a younger audience by taking on the filmizing technique
and introducing musical montage segments into each episode. Twenty-one
series of Holby City have aired with a twenty-second currently airing.
The show has run for over 1000 hour-long episodes. It is filmed at the
BBC Elstree Centre in Hertfordshire, and has featured special episodes
filmed on location abroad. From October 2010, Holby City moved to high
definition broadcasting. Its first executive producers were Young and
Johnathan Young, who were succeeded by Kathleen Hutchison from 2002 to
2004, Richard Stokes from 2004 to 2006, McHale from 2006 to 2010,
Belinda Campbell from 2010 to 2011, Johnathan Young from 2011 to 2013,
Oliver Kent from 2013 to 2017 and Simon Harper from 2017. Holby City
airs once a week, all year round, and each series now contains 52
episodes.
television series that airs weekly on BBC One. It was created by Tony
McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical
drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999. It follows the lives
of medical and ancillary staff at the fictional Holby City Hospital,
the same hospital as Casualty, in the fictional city of Holby, and has
featured occasional crossovers of characters and plots with both
Casualty (which featured dedicated episodes broadcast as
Casualty@Holby City) and the show's 2007 police procedural spin-off
HolbyBlue. It began with eleven main characters in its first series,
all of whom have since left the show. New main characters have been
both written in and out since, with a core of around fifteen main
actors employed at any given time. In casting the first series, Young
sought actors who were already well known in the television industry,
something which has continued throughout its history, with cast
members including Patsy Kensit, Jane Asher, Robert Powell, Ade
Edmondson and John Michie.McHale was the show's lead writer for
several years, and was the first British writer ever to become the
showrunner of a major prime time drama. Under his tenure as executive
producer, attempts were made at modernising the programme and
appealing to a younger audience by taking on the filmizing technique
and introducing musical montage segments into each episode. Twenty-one
series of Holby City have aired with a twenty-second currently airing.
The show has run for over 1000 hour-long episodes. It is filmed at the
BBC Elstree Centre in Hertfordshire, and has featured special episodes
filmed on location abroad. From October 2010, Holby City moved to high
definition broadcasting. Its first executive producers were Young and
Johnathan Young, who were succeeded by Kathleen Hutchison from 2002 to
2004, Richard Stokes from 2004 to 2006, McHale from 2006 to 2010,
Belinda Campbell from 2010 to 2011, Johnathan Young from 2011 to 2013,
Oliver Kent from 2013 to 2017 and Simon Harper from 2017. Holby City
airs once a week, all year round, and each series now contains 52
episodes.
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