Casualty series 27

Lore & Background

The twenty-seventh series of Casualty commenced airing on BBC One on 18 August 2012 and finished on 20 July 2013. The opening episode features a disaster at a music festival. Filming for series 26 was completed in April 2012, and filming for series 27 began a week later. This season increased to 44 episodes from 42 in the previous series. Viewing figures for the first episode were 5.19 million viewers, continuing to be one of the most watched programmes on a Saturday night.

Reader's Guide

This series saw the departures of Dylan Keogh (William Beck), Linda Andrews (Christine Tremarco), Lloyd Asike (Michael Obiora), and long-standing character Nick Jordan (Michael French). It also saw the returns of former nurse, now consultant Martin 'Ash' Ashford (Patrick Robinson) who last appeared fifteen years previously, and former ambulance dispatcher, now receptionist Louise Tyler (Azuka Oforka). The series introduced four new student nurses: Ally Hunter (Rebecca Newman), Aoife O'Reilly (Gemma-Leah Devereux), Robyn Miller (Amanda Henderson), and Jamie Collier (Daniel Anthony)—with only the latter two receiving a promotion to staff nurse and continuing into the next series. The series was produced by Nikki Wilson, with Johnathan Young serving as executive producer until Oliver Kent was appointed on 11 March 2013. Episodes ran for 50 minutes, with no feature-length episodes; instead, stories were told over two-part or three-part episodes.

Did You Know?

• Filming for series 27 began one week after filming for series 26 was completed in April 2012.
• This series increased from 42 episodes in the previous series to 44 episodes.
• Patrick Robinson returned as Martin 'Ash' Ashford after fifteen years away from the show.