Megan Roach: Last News

Casualty?The hit BBC show has been with us longer than you might think, with Holby City Hospital admitting its first patients way back in 1986. Doesn’t seem that old, does it? But what a success story it has been, scooping a National Television Award, four BAFTAs and even spawning its own spin-off series Holby City.With more than 700 episodes under its belt, Casualty has done well to hold onto its coveted Saturday night primetime slot on BBC One, though in the past has also cropped up on a Friday, too.

TV chat king Graham Norton sees his best-selling novel, Holding , brought to life in an ITV adaptation he describes as a show like no other.The darkly comic whodunnit opens with the discovery of human remains on an Irish farm. But the investigation by Sergeant PJ Collins (Game Of Thrones ’ Conleth Hill) opens up a can of worms.The drama has been brought to the small screen by Dominic Treadwell-Collins, the former showrunner on EastEnders who went on to produce the dramas A Very English Scandal and A Very British Scandal. The cast includes My Left Foot Oscar winner Brenda Fricker, who made her name as Megan Roach, one of the original characters in Casualty and Father Ted ’s Pauline McLynn.