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Holby City (styled as HOLBY CIY) is a British medical drama television series shown weekly on BBC One. The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the BBC medical drama "Casualty". It was first shown on 12 January 1999. It is set in the same hospital as "Casualty" in the fictional city of Holby. Some episodes have characters and plots shared with "Casualty". There have been episodes broadcast as "Casualty@Holby City". Some episodes have characters and plots shared with the show's 2007 police procedural spin-off "HolbyBlue".
"Holby City" is shown once a week, all year round. Each series now contains 52 episodes.
The show follows the lives of medical and ancillary staff at the fictional Holby City Hospital.
As of January 2020, twenty-one series of "Holby City" have been shown. It is made at the BBC Elstree Centre in Hertfordshire. It has featured episodes filmed on location abroad. From October 2010, "Holby City" moved to high definition broadcasting.
The series uses a team of researchers to ensure medical accuracy. Surgeons check the scripts. Cast members are taught to perform basic medical procedures. They spend time on hospital wards for research.
"Holby City" has been nominated for over 100 television awards. It has won ten awards. The 2008 British Academy Television Award for Best Continuing Drama, one Black Entertainment Film Fashion Television and Arts (BEFFTA) award, two Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards, two Music Video and Screen Awards, and four Screen Nation awards.
The first series averaged 9.27 million viewers. The eleventh series averaged 5.44 million viewers. Later series have had over 4 million viewers per week.
The first series had eleven main characters. All have since left the show. New main characters have been written in and out of the series. There are fifteen main characters. Well known actors regularly appear. Cast members have included Patsy Kensit, Jane Asher, Robert Powell, Ade Edmondson, John Michie, Al Hunter Ashton, Alex Walkinshaw and Jemma Redgrave.
In September 2016 the BBC said the show would be put up for tender.
The tender document said the contract would be open to independent producers and BBC Studios. It would be for three series of at least 50 episodes each. It would be delivered from December 2017 with no break in transmission. It would be produced at BBC Elstree Centre.
BBC Studios was the winning bidder and will continue to produce the show to 2020.
"Holby City" was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the BBC medical drama "Casualty". It is set in the fictional Holby City Hospital.
Young wanted to explore what happened to patients treated in "Casualty" once they were taken to the hospital's surgical wards.
The stories on "Casualty" are limited to the "accident of the week". "Holby City" has stories about long-term care, rather than immediate life and death decisions.
The series was commissioned by BBC One Controller Peter Salmon. It was first shown on BBC One on 12 January 1999.
Since its beginning, it has expanded to cover other wards. These include a gynaecology ward, an acute assessment unit and a maternity ward.
Young explained that new wards are necessary to allow the crew to rotate sets.
Episodes of "Holby City" cost around £370,000 to produce. This is more than the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" which costs £130,000 per episode. "Casualty" costs £450,000 per episode. As "Holby City" is a high-volume, year-round production, it has relatively low production costs. Set-up costs can be spread over many years. Sets can be re-used. This is not the case for shorter series or one-off dramas.
Former "Casualty" producer Johnathan Young was an executive producer of "Holby" first series.
Mal Young was executive producer of "Holby City" until 2004.
Kathleen Hutchison worked with Mal Young as co-executive producer from 2003 to 2004. She left the series to become executive producer of "EastEnders".
In March 2011, Johnathan Young returned to the BBC as executive producer of both "Casualty" and "Holby City".
"Holby City" storylines are planned eight months in advance. The series has a number of scriptwriters. They are found and scheduled by script development editor Simon Harper.
Harper finds some writers through the BBC Writers Academy. This is a course which gives its graduates the chance to work on prime time television. McHale teaches at the academy, and graduate Abi Bown went on to become a regular writer for "Holby City".
Harper also recruits writers through the BBC's Continuing Drama Shadow Scheme.
McHale wrote the series' first episode, and served as the show's lead writer.
His 2006 promotion to executive producer was part Controller of BBC Drama Production John Yorke's plan to "put writers back at the heart of the process". Yorke said McHale's promotion was "fantastic. It means that for the first time you've got a writer running one of our big powerhouse BBC1 shows."
After McHale resigned the lead writer was Justin Young. He wants a more writer-led process from series 13 onwards. Writers will create more of the story of their episodes than before.
The serial employs a team of researchers to advise writers on nursing issues and health service politics. One medical advisor was given a cameo appearance in the series as an orthopaedic surgeon. Another advisor, recovery nurse Rachel Carter, appears in "Holby City" as a scrub nurse.
The programme uses different types os surgeons to check scripts for accuracy. Carter believes this is important as viewers might copy what they see in the show, such as CPR.
Actor Amanda Mealing said: "We pride ourselves on being realistic. You need to know what you are doing and why. It is a complex and foreign thing to act out an operation. For training, I watched a number of real ones."
Cast members are taught how to give injections, monitor blood pressure and check a pulse, and some watch procedures in hospitals.
Original cast member George Irving observed coronary artery bypass surgery performed at Papworth and Middlesex Hospital in preparation for his role as Anton Meyer. Edward MacLiam observed laparoscopic surgery being performed before joining the cast as Greg Douglas in series twelve.
"Holby City" and "Casualty" are both set in Holby City Hospital. This is in the fictional county of Wyvern in the southwest of England close to the Welsh border.
Bristol is used for city exteriors. Interior filming of "Holby City" is at BBC Elstree Centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.