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Maxwell
Caulfield, James Redmond and Suzanne Packer boost regular cast of
Casualty as it comes of age
Casualty,
series 18, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE in September 2003
Mal
Young, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Controller Drama Series says: "Casualty is now officially
the world's longest running and most successful medical drama series
on television but we're not resting on laurels. Series 18 will hopefully
keep surprising and gripping our audience."
Celebrating
its 18th birthday, Casualty proudly welcomes former Colbys and Grease
2 star Maxwell Caulfield as its new resident paediatrician, Jim
Brodie.
Jim
has a roving eye for the ladies and his air of transatlantic glamour
and his smooth maturity is destined to be a winning combination.
Nikki
(Kelly Harrison) will be happy for him to nurse her broken heart!
Maxwell
enthuses: "It's good to be working with a solid core of British
actors. The show here is made with real precision and attention
to detail and I'm getting a medical education on the side!"
Ex-model
and Hollyoaks heart-throb James Redmond makes his Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ debut as psychiatric
nurse Abs who ruffles management feathers with his alternative and
lackadaisical approach to work. Lunatics transfix him and he doesn't
suffer fools gladly.
Redmond,
who is filming with the team in his home town of Bristol, brings
energy and vitality to the new series as does the gorgeous Holly
Davison (The Bill) who plays Harry Harper's obstreperous daughter
Tally.
Suzanne
Packer returns to the UK after two years in New York to take on
the role of emergency nurse practitioner Tess Bateman.
She
is reunited with her Brookside co-star Louis Emerick who once again
plays her on-screen husband.
"I've
always enjoyed working with Louis so it was a really lovely surprise
when I found out. We were able to dive straight in because we'd
got the 'getting to know you' bit behind us," Packer said.
The
series begins with a rollercoaster - an epic two-part episode (Casualty's
most ambitious yet) spans Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September.
The
Holby disaster - a double train smash - took two production teams
twenty four days to shoot and involved 1470 supporting artists.
While
filming at the Nene Valley Railway in Peterborough, Kwame Kwei-Armah
said: "I feel like Wesley Snipes. Being part of it has been
amazing. It's still Casualty but it feels like we're making a big
movie."
And
even veteran Ian Bleasedale who is used to filming on location found
the experience exciting: "It's certainly better than working
for a living!"
Lord
Lichfield makes a cameo appearance as himself later in the series
when the staff of Holby pool resources to make a charity calendar
to raise funds for the Holby disaster.
The
calendar will be made commercially available to tie-in with Children
in Need in November.
Other
guest appearances include Charlie Dale (Coronation Street, Paradise
Heights), Helen Fraser (Bad Girls), Frank Windsor (Z Cars), Tracy
Shaw (Coronation Street) and Julia Watson makes a long-awaited return
as Baz.
Notes
to Editors
Casualty
films in Bristol. Series 18 begins on 13 September 2003.
The
series producer is Foz Allan and the executive producers are Mal
Young and Mervyn Watson.
Anita
Dobson, Peter Bowles and Susannah York
join Holby for 50th episode (01.07.03)
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