Holby City Holby City Holby City (styled as HOLBY CIY) is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One. The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama "Casualty", and premiered on 12 January 1999. It is set in the same hospital as "Casualty", in the fictional city of Holby, and featured occasional crossovers of characters and plots with both "Casualty" (which featured dedicated episodes broadcast as "Casualty@Holby City") and the show's 2007 police procedural spin-off "HolbyBlue". Its first executive producers were Young and Johnathan Young, who were
Children's Hospital (UK TV series) Children's Hospital (UK TV series) Children's Hospital is a British television fly-on-the-wall documentary series based at the Sheffield Children's Hospital, Birmingham Children's Hospital, and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. It was broadcast on BBC One between October 1993 and February 2003. According to scholar Annette Hill, the series had "all the hallmarks of a docu-soap", saying its "personal, melodramatic stories appeal to viewers, with more than 8 million tuning into the first series, despite widespread criticism from the press." Peter Lee-Wright observes that the series marked a transition in fly-on-the-wall documentaries by shifting the emphasis from the practical considerations