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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 274660" data-attributes="member: 673">A bit of an overview from The Guardian as to why the show got the chop.In retrospect, the first symptom that Holby City (created by Tony McHale and Mal Young) would only just make its 23rd birthday next January came on 18 March this year, when BBC director general Tim Davie announced a “UK-wide” policy, increasing spending and representation outside London. These plans included “two new soap-style network drama series – one from the north of England and another from one of the nations – produced over the next three years”.The regional identity of the BBC’s medical shows is complex. Both Holby City and Casualty, sibling shows with some shared characters, are set around south-west England in the fictional county of Wyvern, although Holby City is filmed at the BBC studios in Elstree, and Casualty in Cardiff (having moved there from Bristol).In production terms, then, Holby counts as a London show, and became vulnerable to the spread of what the corporation calls “drama spend”. Doctors, filmed in Birmingham, and Casualty, made in Wales, were less at risk from the attempt to reduce London-centricity. The money saved from closing Holby City General Hospital will be invested in the new series. And the new soaps will have to wear their locations on screen – if made in Scotland or Northern Ireland, they must be set there; licence payers will see where the money is being spent.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jun/02/nothing-can-save-you-now-the-death-of-holby-city-is-a-huge-loss-to-the-bbc[/URL]</blockquote>

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