Casualty Filming

I realise this is probably a stupid question - but I can't work it out.

Is the ED set of Casualty some sort of plywood set (as in, is it a set constructed within a large room) or do the rooms physically exist like that in a building somewhere?

That's essentially all I'm asking - but also, where is it? I'm sure it's the second of my options, and that it's very obvious - but I'd like to check.

Incidentally, I do like that set - the colours are good, and I like the various corridors and linking rooms that it is made up of, even if the lighting is often too dim to come across as a real emergency department.

Filming Location : it was Bristol, but it's now/shortly to be Cardiff.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/03_march/26/casualty.shtml

Holby City, however, is filmed in real buildings at BBC Elstree - in the "Neptune House" tower block of offices that ATV built for their London studio centre which opened in 1960. AFAIK they don't use any studio space at Elstree at all for Holby City, the wards are constructed in former office accommodation and the exteriors are literally shot in and around Neptune House.

This image is from the excellent TV Studios History website:
http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/images/ATV%20Elstree%20Studios,%20Model%20430.JPG
[url]http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/studio%20history.htm#bbc elstree[/url]

that is an interesting old picture, is the site of Eastenders there or am I at the wrong studios

Nope: Same place, Eastenders is further left!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&aq=&sll=51.659153,-0.274948&sspn=0.003461,0.009645&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&ll=51.659066,-0.274948&spn=0.003627,0.009645&t=h&z=17

Neptune is top right, Albert Square is left (pretty obvious!)

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&aq=&sll=51.659153,-0.274948&sspn=0.003461,0.009645&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=51.659093,-0.27851&spn=0.003654,0.009645&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.659419,-0.278039&panoid=Cjzi-bO5krwk5g45uWoViw&cbp=12,148.73,,1,0.5

There's the back of one of the houses on the square (Dot Cotton's?)

As usual, the aerial pictures on Google Maps/Earth are several years out of date. If you move your mouse to where
the Elstree Film Studios are, there's a big empty gap in the lower right of the studio complex, shaped like a triangle
with a corner cut off. That, is the site of the Big Brother compound before it was built for BB3 in 2002!

is Bing map upto date? it does have birds eye view which is better

Going a little OT, much of central London has reasonably recent aerial imagery - within the last 12 months, for sure. I don't have it installed on this PC, but Google Earth gives you the imagery date.

(For an example of something recent, see the Olympic Stadium - and to bring things marginally back towards TV, the Big Breakfast house, just to the west of it. And not much further away, the site of the original BB house.)

Bing Maps is somewhat more up to date than Google. The aerial view of Elstree Film Studios on there features the BB
compound from around the time they had the secret "house next door" ... I can't remember exactly when that was.

On the point of the location of Holby City and Eastenders, if you watch both shows you can often see similar landmarks out of building windows - such as the block of flats that you can clearly see in a link above. So even without being a member here, a keen-eyed viewer could notice that they are both filmed close to each other.

If Casualty is moving to Cardiff, are there plans for Holby to move there eventually?

wow I didn't realise how close the big breakfast house was to the olympic stadium it's next to it, the old road to planet 24 behind the house now leads to the stadium