Casualty (series 22) Casualty (series 22) The twenty-second series of the British medical drama television series "Casualty" commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 8 September 2007 and finished on 9 August 2008. Like any accident and emergency department, Holby City Hospital A&E is a hectic, chaotic whirl of hospital staff, patients and visitors. But scratch the surface and there are gripping stories on all sides. Casualty interweaves these intriguing, exciting and dramatic tales with the loves and lives of the hospital staff in a compelling hospital drama series that has continued for over 20 years. Following the tragic death
General Hospital (UK TV series) productions to fill in the extended schedules. Among the first of these shows, which were aimed at giving advertisers access to housewives, were the long-running rural soap "Emmerdale Farm" (YTV) and the twice-weekly medical drama "General Hospital". Set in a fictional Midlands town, the series followed the romantic and professional lives of its doctors and nurses. While the location and the characters names had been changed, in most other respects "General Hospital" was almost identical to its predecessor, "Emergency – Ward 10", a deliberate attempt to recreate its success. In 1975, after 270 twice-weekly episodes, "General Hospital" was given a