Cameras Set to Roll Again in Casualty

CENTRAL TV is making a return visit to Selly Oak Hospital to make a re-run of its popular series The Real ER.

It follows the success of last year’s fly on the wall documentary about the every day ups and down of life in a busy city accident and emergency unit.

It is called The Real ER as a reference to ER, the long running and award-winning American medical drama series created by novelist Michael Crichton, which made a star out of actor George Clooney.

But Central TV’s version is a real life take on real events which bombard the A&E unit on a daily basis.

A TV crew will be based at the hospital in Raddlebarn Road for three months and the show is likely to be broadcast later in the summer.

Meanwhile, over at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston, staff and patients at the liver unit have been involved in Channel Four’s Dispatches programme which catalogues the rise in health problems due to increasing alcohol consumption.

The programme is expected to be broadcast later this month.

Medical staff at University Hospital Birmingham will also feature in a forthcoming issue of Challenges, the French equivalent of the Economist.

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