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Contents 1 Changing cast list style 2 Crossovers With Casualty 3 Removed PhD 4 Paul Bradley 5 Tricia & Connie (recent edit) 6 See also section 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Holby City (logo).PNG 8 Filmizing 9 WikiProject class rating 10 Filming Location 11 Characters

[edit] Changing cast list style

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)

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)

[edit] Crossovers With Casualty

Should the Casualty@Holby City section of the page be supplemented to cover other cross-over plot lines? e.g.

• relationship between Tony (Casualty) and Ben (midwife, Holby City).
• Norwalk virus plot line - some wards were closed in Holby City, and the backlog of patients was evident in Casualty.
• Mike Barrett's move from Casualty to Holby City.

[edit] Removed PhD

Someone had added 'PhD' to Lola Griffin (current cast) and Victoria Merrick, Kirstie Collins & Muriel McKendrick (Original Cast). There has been no evidence from any of the episodes that these characters had a PhD, they had the title 'Dr' through their medical qualification (likely to be either 'MB ChB' or 'MBBS'), they would only have had 'PhD' after their name if they had done postgraduate research - and there is no evidence of this!!! Jxb311 11:07, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, that was me - had a blonde moment and decided to put PhD instead of Dr... DBD 16:42, 16 March 2006 (GMT)

[edit] Paul Bradley

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)

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)

[edit] Tricia & Connie (recent edit)

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 -- Dan Barnes-Davies 13:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] See also section

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)

I concur ^† DBD 19:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Holby City (logo).PNG

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[edit] Filmizing

Anyone noticed that this week's (and last week's) episodes have been "filmized"? Smoothy 19:06, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes - looks good!

Yes, it seems that they have now switched to recording the programme on film, or at least have given it a 'filmic' look in post production, rather than the traditional look you get when recording to tape. This gives it more of an American feel which in my view doesn't suit this kind of show in the UK. Nevertheless, does this progession mean that the article's mention of a 'single camera set-up' is incorrect now? Can any film-makers comment here and/or change the article if so, as it doesn't look the show is made in the same way as it was up until mid-2007. User:Jaydash 20:44, 9 October 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.62.16 (talk)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

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)

[edit] Filming Location

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)

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)

[edit] Characters

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)

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)