Obtaining higher resolution promotional images
Good evening! I hope everyone is having a good December and looking forward to the explosive return of Casualty on Saturday! Before the show kicks off proper with the Christmas special and subsequently the beginning of Public Property, I thought I would offer some quick pointers regarding promotional images.
By default, images on episodes pages on the official Casualty website are rendered in 640x360
resolution. This is not the maximum resolution available to you. For example, opening an episode on BBC iPlayer on desktop should reveal the episode's image in a resolution matching or resembling your computer's screen size.
Instead of going through the trouble of obtaining the larger files via , you can obtain these files by manipulating the URL of the i…
Should Casualty Wiki and Holby City Wiki merge?
I'm just going to jump to the chase. I believe that Casualty Wiki and Holby City Wiki should be merged. Since the last discussion of a merger a few years ago, both wikis have changed drastically in terms of writing style and scope to the point where keeping the two shows separate is, in my opinion, counter-productive.
Over the past year, Casualty Wiki's scope has widened considerably - we have articles about minor characters, events that have occurred in episodes, and even roads and other thoroughfares. Inevitably, articles about locations or characters that have a more grounded basis in Holby City or HolbyBlue will be created. This is where things will end up becoming unnecessarily complicated. For example, has been featured in Casualty on a few o…
My Casualty Blog
Casualty is my favourite show, my blog will be about Autographs.
Autographs I have got:
Connie Beauchamp (BBC Signed)
Ethan Hardy (BBC Signed)
Michael Spence (BBC Signed)
Casualty Wiki Update - 31 August 2019
Hello all. It has been a while since I last posted an update blog, so I thought that it would be a good idea to keep you all in the loop.
- The countdown module on the main page has received a significant upgrade. Not only does it show the most recent episode of Casualty, as an episode is airing, a link to the official BBC One live stream will appear. Once the episode finishes, it will link to BBC iPlayer.
- Note: Due to legal restrictions, Casualty episodes on BBC iPlayer and the online BBC One stream can only be viewed by residents of the United Kingdom with a television licence. You will also need to sign in with your BBC account; if you do not have one, you will need to register.
- The wiki's scope has widened. If we want to be the greatest resource of Ca…
Casualty Wiki Update - 6 May 2019
Hello everyone! It's been a while since I've updated the noticeboard on the main page, so I thought that it would be a good idea to post a more comprehensive report about what has happened to the wiki over the past few months.
- Casualty Central is dead. Casualty Wiki has returned.
- The wiki is nearly fully up-to-date. At the start of the year, in terms of content, Casualty Wiki was stuck in August 2017. Today, we are only four episodes behind. As a result, several character articles (e.g. Iain Dean, Dylan Keogh) have doubled in size. Over the past few months, I have written over 70 episode articles containing detailed synopses (well, of varying levels of detail) spanning from the beginning of series 32 to some of the most recent episodes of seri…
Custom Oasis is back baby!
CustomOasis is for your personal CSS and JavaScript pages only. Public use of it is against Wikia's Terms of Use.
Back in 2011, former Casualty Wiki administrator Eladkse created a custom skin for the Oasis/Wikia skin called CustomOasis. However, global changes to Wikia's layout broke the skin and the skin was deleted.
However, after updating the code to suit the current Wikia layout, I am proud to announce that CustomOasis is back!
Resuscitating Casualty Central
Hello all.
It goes without saying that this wiki has not been in the greatest shape ever since Titan95 and Soapslover96's departures from Casualty Central. Lots of content has since been wiped from the website, including episode synopses and behind-the-scenes information. In the grand scheme of things, the wiki has suffered in the absence of proper dedicated management.
Therefore, I believe that it is my time to step up to the plate and help steer Casualty Central back in the right direction.
- Content that has been previously removed will be brought back. When Titan left the wiki, he removed practically all of the content he had written for personal reasons. However, as per FANDOM's community creation policy, this was an act of vandalism. Cons…
Titles
As you will know, from series 32 onwards Casualty are no longer using titles. Would you, the wiki, like to keep on using the "Episode" format, for example "Episode One (series 32)" and so on, or would you like to use fan title names created by you and other people? It was discussed a while ago to use episode clip names, however these no longer exist, so what are your opinions? Please respond down below:
S31 episode scoring
Below is my personal list of all the episodes of series 31 with a ranking from 1 to 10 on how good I thought they were. Note that these are my personal views - just because I'm an admin of the wiki doesn't mean these views represent the wiki itself!
Character summaries
- 1 Doctors
- 2 Nurses
- 3 Paramedics
- 4 Other
Connie
Connie Beauchamp was one of Holby's finest cardiothoracic surgeons when she worked on the hospital's Darwin ward. However, since moving down to the ED as Clinical Lead she's put in long hours and dedication to ensure the ED prospers too. It's not been an easy struggle for Connie and she's fought to get where she is today with her roots in Peckham.
Not the easiest to work with, Connie has had to make sacrifices in friendships on her way up the ladder, most recently with Rita Freeman whom ultimately framed Connie for murder in 2015. Since the arrival of Elle Gardner and Rita's departure, Connie has focused her energy on Elle, growing ever suspicious that she's out for her role as Clinical Lead.
In her firs…
Series 30 - Top 10 Countdown!
Tonight's episode marked the end of series 30, and will definitely be one to be remembered for years to come! It's safe to say that since the "A Child's Heart" episodes at the start of the series, there have been a variety of changes both in the cast and storylines of the show. In this post, I'll be listing my countdown for my favourite 10 episodes of this series.
- 1 10. "Hearts and Flowers"
- 2 9. "High Tide"
- 3 8. "Sweet Child of Mine"
- 4 7. "Lie to Me"
- 5 6. "What Lies Beneath"
- 6 5. "A Life Less Ordinary"
- 7 4. "Belief"
- 8 3. "All the Single Ladies"
- 9 2. "Sticks and Stones"
- 10 1. "Hello, I Must Be Going"
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- Director: David Innes Edwards
- Writer: Dominique Moloney
- Centric: Connie
Viewers of Holby City probably remember this episode above the others due to the guest appeara…
Update-18/07/2016
Here's my first ever blog post update since joining Casualty Wiki last February! Sorry I've never got around to doing one, but I felt that now is a good time to do a general review as series 30 draws to a close.
Since April, I've been able to create all past character articles and all remaining episode articles - something which took time but I'm glad is over now! After episode 43 of series 30 airs on the 30th, we'll have around a month to complete any other outstanding tasks and brush up the wiki articles ready for the start of series 31. Some priorities at the moment:
- Correcting episode numbers - Some of you may be aware of the big haul change to all episode numbers since the start of series 20 as a result of the 1000th episode intially be…
Casualty Wiki's New Look
As you may have noticed, the Casualty Wiki looks a bit different to how it used to. That's because we've begun beta testing our newest theme right here!
The new theme is designed to coincide with the refreshed look of Casualty, and because we thought it looked so good when we were testing it at our test wiki, we thought we'd introduce it a tad earlier than expected.
Gone now is the green that has been with us since the Monaco era. In it's place is a series of blues that compliment each other much better. You can check out a basic evolution of the wiki below:
To celebrate the launch of the new theme, we've also enabled some new Wikia features: Expanded Wiki Navigation and Message Wall. You can find out more about these at Community Central.
Comm…
Wiki Update: 26 January 2012
Welcome to the first (and rather belated) wiki update blog for 2012! Here are the latest updates to Casualty Wiki. As always, remember to keep an eye on Wikia's own Technical Update Blog, which lists Wikia wide changes that may or may not affect this wiki.
The long promised new theme is going into beta testing on Casualty Test Wiki. We've been struggling for images as the image quality on iPlayer is quite poor for screen-capping, and the Casualty website has only just updated it's own background image. This has meant we've had to delay the refresh.
- Line spacing has been adjusted by Wikia. This means articles take up less space and that readers do not have to scroll down pages as much.
- As you may have noticed, we added a HD link to our catchup…
Wiki Update: 30 November 2011
Geetings everyone! Sooner than expected, here are the latest updates to Casualty Wiki. Remember to keep an eye on Wikia's own Technical Update Blog, which lists Wikia wide changes that may or may not affect this wiki.
Casualty Wiki is to beta test Wikia Mobile V3 from today!
One week before it's official release, the new skin features navigation, fullscreen images, better handling for infoboxes, and is themed from the default wiki colours. The skin should activate sometime today, and it will take a hour or two for it to be customised for Casualty Wiki. The skin is officially released to all wikis on 7 December.
- Portal:Catchup now features the new iPlayer interface.
- The editor and Admin Dashboard are now also themed from the default wiki colours…
Wiki Update: 24 November 2011
Seems that between me being forgetful and there not being much in terms of updates, a Wiki Update blog hasn't been posted for a month. Sorry. It's probably going to be a monthly feature now, but there may not be one this time next month due to Christmas. Anyway, without further ado, here are the latest Casualty Wiki updates.
- We've reverted back to the 'original' navigation on the Oasis skin. The admins felt that too much effort and compromise would be needed to clean up the layout changes that Wikia have decided to apply to wikis running the beta navigation. Please note that CustomOasis will not be returning, as it was proving difficult to maintain layouts for all the different types of users and skins.
- As a result of the move back to the ol…
Wiki Update: 25 October 2011
Today we start a new weekly blog post detailing recent and upcoming changes and tweaks to Casualty Wiki. These blogs will be posted (hopefully) every Tuesday by one of the administrators. Remember to keep an eye on Wikia's own Technical Update Blog, which lists Wikia wide changes that may or may not affect this wiki.
- Linking to Holby City Wiki has been made easier!
Users no longer have to use w:c:holbycity to link to our sister wiki. The new prefix is hc.
- We have now added a theme to the mobile version of the wiki.
The new theme is currently in beta, and may still be tweaked over the coming days. You can use the HTML classes nophone and phoneonly to hide platform specific text.
- Portal:Catchup is now also compatible with the mobile version of the wiki.
T…
Michael Obiora and Madeleine Mantock to join Casualty
The BBC has announced today that Michael Obiora and Madeleine Mantock will be joining the cast of Casualty. The actors will portray Lloyd and Scarlett, newly-qualified nurses who are thrown in at the deep end on their first day. They will first appear on-screen in late-August.
Following is the official announcement from the BBC Press Office:
- Hotel Babylon star Michael Obiora and new young actress Madeleine Mantock are joining the cast of BBC One's Casualty to play newly-qualified nurses Lloyd and Scarlett.
- 25-year-old Michael (Misfits, EastEnders, Grange Hill) will play cocky new nursing recruit Lloyd and Madeleine (21), who is fresh out of ArtsEd drama school, where she studied on a bursary from the BBC Performing Arts Fund, will play terrified i…
No BAFTA for Casualty
The Casualty crew have walked away from this year's BAFTA ceremony without one of the prestigious awards.
Having been nominated for Best Continuing Drama, the team lost out to EastEnders, another BBC production. Also nominated for the category was ITV's Coronation Street, and BBC's Waterloo Road.
The complete list of BAFTA nominees and winners for 2011 can be found here.
Gemma Atkinson and Dhafer L'Abidine to join Casualty
The BBC has announced today that Gemma Atkinson and Dhafer L'Abidine will be joining the cast of Casualty. The actors, who will portray Paramedics Tamzin and Omar respectively, started filming their first scenes for the show this month, and will first appear on-screen in Series 26, due to start airing this September.
Following is the official announcement from the BBC Press Office:
- Actress Gemma Atkinson is pulling on a high visibility jacket and packing her medical kit to join the overworked paramedic team in BBC One's long-running medical drama Casualty.
- Best known on the small screen for her role as Lisa Hunter in Hollyoaks and on stage as Miss September in the Calendar Girls, Gemma has also starred in a number of independent feature films. She…
A Custom Skin For Casualty Wiki
CustomOasis no longer exists. Maintenance of this skin was too time consuming for the admins.
Here at Casualty Wiki, we feel that Wikia's standard skin, Oasis, is too restrictive. We are therefore proud to announce this impoved skin which has been designed with style in mind.
Due to Wikia rules, we cannot apply this theme automatically when you access the site. Instead, if you want to use it, you have to put some code into your personal css and js files.
To install the skin, you will need two pieces of code.
The first piece is a css import, which you need to put in your personal wikia.css :
Wikia is changing all the time, and we had to put some code into Oasis to make this skin work. Therefore, if you do spot an issue with either skin, please a…
Update-01/04/2014
I have now brought back the Actors and Actresses page on this Wiki so far I have only done the Casualty current characters.
It's not finished yet as still need to do:
- Holby City Actors/Actresses
- Past Casualty Actors/Actresses
- Past Holby City Actors/Actresses
Feel free to help if you wish but please do it the way that I have done it so:
- Template:Actors
- Then put in what other T.V shows that they have been on
This is what it should look like.
Update 26/03/2014
Hello, I am Soapslover96 and I have been the Admin of this Casualty Wiki page since March 2014 but I have been editing this wiki since October 2013. On my message wall it says that my account was created February 2014 thats only because I changed my Username as it was previously Waterlooroad2013.
If you have any problems or just want to suggest something please do either on the Live Chat, Message Wall or here on the blogs. If you was a user here before 2013 then you would know that I have changed the look of this Wiki site and changed the name to Casualty and Holby City Wiki. Please check out our new tab "Community" have a look.
2014 Update
Hello, I am Soapslover96 and I have been the Admin of this Casualty Wiki page since March 2014 but I have been editing this wiki since October 2013. On my message wall it says that my account was created February 2014 thats only because I changed my Username as it was previously Waterlooroad2013.
If you have any problems or just want to suggest something please do either on the Live Chat , Message Wall or here on the blogs. If you was a user here before 2013 then you would know that I have changed the look of this Wiki site and changed the name to Casualty and Holby City Wiki. Please check out our new tab "Community" have a look.
Update 2014
Hello, I am Soapslover96 and I have been the Admin of this Casualty Wiki page since March 2014 but I have been editing this wiki since October 2013. On my message wall it says that my account was created February 2014 thats only because I changed my Username as it was previously Waterlooroad2013.
If you have any problems or just want to suggest something please do either on the Live Chat , Message Wall or here on the blogs. If you was a user here before 2013 then you would know that I have changed the look of this Wiki site and changed the name to Casualty and Holby City Wiki. Please check out our new tab "Community" have a look.
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Introducing Chat
Hi there, Casualty Wikians!
Today I'm happy to tell you that at the request of one of your admins, we've selected Casualty Wiki to be one of the few wikis to receive a new Wikia feature: Chat. We've been working hard on this feature for a while now, and we want to see how it behaves in the wild. To join, find the "join chat" section under the "add a photo" tool on the right rail of any article page. (Hints: it's not on the homepage, and you need to be logged in.)
Right now, Chat is still in the beta testing stage. There will be bugs and oddities, so we're glad to have your community as part of our team to help find them as we iron them out. We still have a bunch of exciting features in the pipeline.
I know you awesomely creative Wikians will co…
New casualty wiki
Please note there is a new casualty wiki at http://casualtyworld.wikia.com/wiki/Casualty_Wiki Please feel more then free to edit.