Holby City is a popular UK hospital drama that has been running on BBC 1 for over ten years.

A dramatic medical fuelled soap opera, Holby City is a spin off show from the critically acclaimed emergency room drama Casualty and is set in the same fictional hospital – Holby City Hospital.

It was said in 1998 that viewers and fans were anxious to see the goings on and drama of other wards (beside the A&E ward in Casualty) in Holby City Hospital, and that was when creators Mal Young and Tony McHale put their creative heads together and created Holby City, a now BAFTA winning television success.

Holby City follows the lives of the staff at Holby City hospital and the patients that find themselves in need of their help. Although the doctors, nurses and surgeons alike are all played by regular actors, the patients are played by guest actors – some of which are already household names, such as radio and television personality Eric Sykes, comedian Phill Jupitus and Blue pop star, Lee Ryan.

Holby is set in the fictional county of Wyvern, which if real, would actually replace Bristol – which is where sister show Casualty was filmed up until recently – on the UK map. Although strong references to next door neighbour, Wales, are mentioned in the show, Holby City is actually filmed in Hertfordshire, in Elstree Studios – the same studio in which UK soap opera Eastenders is filmed.

Although the shows are closely linked, Casualty and Holby City rarely interlink their characters, although, on occasion this has been shown.

Mal Young, creator of Holby City explained that he wanted to show fans of Casualty where the patients end up after being examined in A&E and he has certainly achieved it with the award winning Holby City.

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UK soap Holby City is a sea of sad, comical and eye opening story lines in the next fortnight so fans should prepare themselves for tears of laughter and sadness – tissues at the ready!

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Next Tuesday’s episode will see Elliot and Tara preparing for their brave decision to perform a brave and experimental heart operation.
The pair are clearly excited and anxious, but shockingly, Elliot has second thoughts and loses his bottle and backs out.
Tara is horrified as she doesn’t want to go it alone, but Joseph tells her that he will step in. As the pair are preparing, Elliot has a change of heart and realises he will live to regret changing his mind and assures Tara he will be there to perform the surgery with her.

Over the last few weeks, Holby City fans have seen Donna remain truly optimistic regarding her father’s recent cancer diagnosis.
Last week, Ric performed a complicated and controversial operation that could potentially save his life, but next week, Donna’s father is still unconscious.
Attempting to take her mind off the fact that her Dad may never come around, Donna embarks on a non stop shift of work, but after test results make her realise the reality of the situation, it seems her father is not responding at all. Donna then makes the heart wrenching decision to turn off her father’s life support machine which ends in a painful and tearful goodbye.

Holby City character Oliver has had his fair share of drama but fans will be giggling at their screens next week when he accidently sends a rude email to Chrissie.
To apologise, he takes her for a drink and after a few drinks and laughing fits, the pair shockingly kiss and set off to Oliver’s! Could this be romance for the unlikely pair?

With a hoard of touching story lines covered by UK soap Holby City, it’s no wonder this BAFTA award winning soap just keeps getting bigger and better.

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