Casualty beats Coronation Street and EastEnders to win top award
Casualty has beaten fellow soaps such as Coronation Street and EastEnders to win a top award.
The BBC medical drama won the 2024 Broadcast Award for Best Soap/Continuing Drama, with the publication noting that the series went through "revolutionary changes last year".
These include "innovations in narrative style, filming and production techniques helping to deliver a visceral portrayal of life on the NHS frontline", while Broadcast also shared particular praise for the show's diversity as well as its improvised episode.
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The judges said: “Such a powerful episode, a bold and innovative way to get a hardhitting message across in a soap”.
“A documentarystyle format telling the lives of frontline paramedics drove home the stresses and strains on an overloaded system and the staff struggling to save lives,” another judge added.
Coronation Street was among the soaps shortlisted, with the acid attack storyline noted as a "standout narrative", while EastEnders' Lola Pearce-Brown death storyline was also commended.
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Also on the shortlist were Emmerdale and its man club storyline, Hollyoaks and its tackling of incel subculture, as well as Waterloo Road and its mix of social issues with humour.
In other Casualty news, the soap has added The Crown's Jamie Glover, Killing Eve's Manpreet Bachu and comedian Sammy T Dobson in the roles of Clinical Lead Patrick Onley, and junior doctors Tariq Hussein and Nicole Piper, respectively.
They come after the exits of stars Nigel Harman as Max Cristie and Derek Thompson as Charlie Fairhead this year – the latter of whom is set to step away after 37 years on the soap.
Casualty airs on Saturdays on BBC One and streams on BBC iPlayer.
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