The "Casualty" Thread

The new season of Casualty has just started on BBC ONE, and as we know, tonight's opening episode features
a disastrous train crash, which has just happened as I type this. I notice they seem to have adopted a shaky
camera effect for the first scene inside the hospital Which is somewhat annoying.

Use this thread to post your comments about the storylines and of course the presentation of this new series,

Interesting. They had BBC News 24 doing a report with 'realistic' looking graphics etc ... they also looked perfectly clean and untarnished with pointless changes.

the actual programme itself looks quite good so far - i'm impressed.

i'm one of the (probably many) viewers who stopped watching it a few years ago - and so the only faces i can recall are Charlie and Josh.

casualty tends to be superb at all the mass - disaster events, the bomb, fire, nuclear waste poisoning once as well wasn't there?

The graphics were real - they were recorded in the News 24 studio during Breakfast one morning.
Quite a number of BBC dramas come through in the mornings.

Not daring enough to inflict the horrors of the News 24 set on the viewing public yet though might look a bit too much like the crash site.

Who is the presenter though - i dont recognise her voice?

Don't think it's a proper presenter but her voice is familiar. Either that or it is a proper presenter but not done via the studia but VO Booth/Studio. They audio is too perfect for an open room/studio.

Ah yes they just showed the woman, she's not a regular but she's got shoulder lengthy shiny blonde hair. Can't remember her name'

Yep Stephanie Callister - and she WAS in the news 24 studio. Not in a v/o booth.

That's the one. Her voice sounds too in a booth not the studio though.

That'll be because it's meant to be as if you are hearing the audio coming from a TV set.

Even though I don't watch "Casualty" much, this has been the best episode I've seen for quite some time.
If it weren't for the stuffy old "Last Night of The Proms", this episode could have been shown as a feature
length episode, instead of being cut in two halves, and spread across two nights over the weekend.

It'll never beat Heartbeat tomorrow (assuming it's on a 8pm).

Have the episodes been extended to an hour just for this week or for the whole series.

It makes sense for when Match of the Day returns as they won't have to fill the schedule with a 15-20 min programme then for a 10.30pm kick-off.

(i.e. 8.15 Casualty; 9.15 TBA; 10.15 News; 10.30 MOTD)