Talk:Holby City

message: I noticed that the supporting Holby City cast have photos and a little paragraph about the character. I think this would be a good move to do with the current cast, former cast and original cast. The article may get long though, so I'd suggest creating three separate articles for each sector of cast. Any opinions please?  79.66.151.48 08:55, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it would be useful to attempt for former and original cast, although in the case of current cast where all currently have their own individual articles, think those are much better left as such. Frickative 16:47, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing cast list style 

message: The cast section says Elliot Hope is played by Paul Bradley. Could someone confirm whether or not this is the same Paul Bradley whose article is linked? It says he is a film producer, not an actor. Tim from Leeds 16:14, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was the wrong person.  The correct article is at Paul Bradley (actor), I've corrected this on the article.  talk to JD wants e-mail 20:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Bradley 

message: Hi all, I just edited the Current Cast section, removing "prev. Nurse" from Tricia, because each character's list of roles includes only those seen within the programme itself. And also, Connie was referred to as "Head of Cardiothoracic's" - ignoring the gross grammatical error, do we have proof of this? As far as I recall, we have none -- DBD 13:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tricia & Connie (recent edit) 

message: Ignoring the erroneous labelling of Casualty as a Holby City spin off - do we really need this section here?  Both Casualty and HolbyBlue, as well as the minor characters page are all clearly linked to in the Holby template at the bottom, as well as in the body of the page itself.  And I would firmly question the necessity of linking to a number of unrelated television shows purely on the basis that they share the same genre as Holby City. Frickative 00:27, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur DBD 19:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also section 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Holby City (logo).PNG

message: Anyone noticed that this week's (and last week's) episodes have been "filmized"? Smoothy 19:06, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Filmizing is possible on single and multi camera productions. Soaps like All My Children and Family Affairs have done it and they were definitely multi camera. Format (talk) 07:20, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filmizing 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:43, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Changed the location of where Holby City is filmed as it previously stated in the article: "...Holby City is filmed in London at the BBC's Elstree Studios." It's a contradiction to the next sentence in the article that says it's filmed in Hertfordshire, and the article relating to Elstree Studio says it's in Hertfordshire (which is just outside of London). :) Londonsista (talk) 22:27, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch. Even basic geography's never been my forte - I've been under the mistaken impression Elstree is in London for two or three years now! Frickative (talk) 00:20, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filming Location 

message: Hi
Shouldn't somebody replace the character pages with a list of characters on this page? Casualty and HolbyBlue don't have individual character pages, so I don't see why this should. George.millman (talk) 22:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Holby Blue and Casualty used to have individual character pages, they just broke most all the rules of WP:FICT. The Holby City character pages for the most part are much better.  Certainly a lot of them are still works in progress, but at least three of them now  are at WP:GA standard. Frickative (talk) 22:42, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characters 

message: I see someone has changed the positions of characters Chrissie Williams, Faye Byrne and Daisha Anderson from "Ward Sister" to "Nurse Team Leader" - there has been nothing to announce this change either in the show or in any official material. BBC Holby City website still describes all three as Ward Sisters. I think this should be changed back. Skarloey (talk) 18:42, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nurse Team Leaders 

message: I'd like to explain my changes to the Characters section, in an attempt to stave off any reverting which may ensue simply because it has been the status quo for so long. I've taken the list of current characters and reworded it as prose, whilst also discussing the characters from the first series alongside it. I think that presenting the information in list format is problematic, as the manual of style states that prose is generally preferred to lists in articles, and almost every featured article on a TV series uses prose rather than lists. I considered removing the information altogether, as my interpretation of the various relevant policies is that, as an encyclopaedia, Wikipedia should cover the show as a whole, without giving undue weight to the current series. In discussing only the current characters, it gives the section a recentist slant, focusing in an in-universe fashion on only current events, which are prone to change frequently, and are no more notable than any of the preceding eleven series. I decided that might be too drastic, and settled for including the first series information for balance.
I've left the infobox untouched for the time being, as I appreciate that it would be impractical to attempt to list all 80 or so main cast members from the past 11 years, but perhaps that would be best replaced with a link to the characters article, or even a List of Holby City cast members article, which might, if properly sourced, be an appropriate way to present character/cast information in a table format, on a series by series basis. I'm thinking of something similar to the featured list List of Harry Potter cast members. Would anyone be interested in working on such an article? Frickative 21:18, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh that's excellent, I'm semi-incompetent when it comes to actually coding tables, but I quite like digging up references. Most of the main characters have got their start and end dates on the official website anyway, so it shouldn't be too hard. If you want to work on a draft in your userspace or something, let me know and I'll see what I can do to help out with references :) Frickative 23:16, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current characters 

message: The introduction indicates this is set in the fictional city of Holby, but the last sentence of the Critical response section states that it is set in Bristol. I'm confused ... (Waterloosunset27 (talk) 13:14, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is this set? 

message: This should be updated as it is now on the 14th series - but when i try to do that I get an error page. -- Beardo (talk) 22:36, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current series 

message: Where is the real Holby City?
Can you find the real-life Holby City please for next year. Thanks. RealMI6Fan (talk).  —Preceding undated comment added 06:55, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It was filmed in Bristol, and it showed features of Bristol including the Clifton Suspension Bridge. It is now filmed elsewhere. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:47, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Filmed in Cardiff. Please see below — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 10:07, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

text: Holby is filmed next door to EastEnders at the BBC's Elstree studios. There's an interview with Don Gilet in this week's Inside Soap and he mentions that he recently caught up with Diane Parish at the studios. - JuneGloom  Talk 00:50, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you  for putting me straight!Cheers! — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 10:31, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from Casualty talk 

message: Substituted at 18:09, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Hi, I wanted to make an edit request by putting last aired date 'March 2022' Umair TCFA (talk) 13:15, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: the last aired date must remain as "present" until the last episode has aired. – DarkGlow • 14:25, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 4 June 2021 

message: I am not a "was warrior" however if you look at X Factor it has X Factor was. So my feedback is that when a programme ceases to air it goes in the history book and becomes past. So it does warrant "was" it no longer exists. Same as X Factor in the UK no longer exists. Same as neighbours will cease production soon so it will no longer exist. Percy2345 (talk) 23:16, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I was correct per MOS:TVNOW. The phrasing on X Factor was incorrect too, so I've changed it. Let me know if you know of any other pages that incorrectly say "was". – DarkGlow • 23:25, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

text: But the show does still exist. I can literally watch episodes on the BBC iPlayer now or repeats on the Drama channel, which is why the article is written in present tense. It is a television show that was broadcast from 1999 until 2022. Once a person dies, they stop existing. Per MOS:BLPTENSE, biographies of deceased persons should use past tense. - JuneGloom07 Talk 18:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: No one is making it difficult because the fact is that Holby City still exists. Every single tape, reel, recording and online video would need to be destroyed for it to cease to exist. It exists because I can watch it right now. If it did not exist I could not not watch it again.Rain the 1 13:13, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Holby city no longer exists it has entered the history book