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Casualty spring trailer hints at Dr Lily’s tragic fate, special one-take episode announced

Death of a favourite character teased in spring trailer

When Casualty released its spring trailer, it teased the death of a regular character.

Initially we were worried that it would be Robyn, when she gave birth in a cemetery in the driving rain, but fortunately all ended well with her.

Now we fear a deadly fate could await Dr Lily in tonight’s traumatic episode.

Troubled Gemma is at the centre of the drama, as it’s revealed that she shared the lurid pics of Alicia.

While she’s acting out, Lily tries to talk some sense into her, but Iain’s gobby sister is having none of it.

When Gemma storms out, dives into a car and speeds out of the car park, Lily runs after her.

And it’s here that disaster unfolds…

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The trailer shows Gemma staring at Lily’s apparently lifeless body laid out in said car park.

We then see Iain rush to Lily, as blood trickles from her nostril.

The Casualty medics are then depicted desperately trying to save someone’s life… the tease ends with a body covered with a white sheet.

Is it Lily? Tune in to BBC One tonight at 8.10pm to find out.

Meanwhile, the show has revealed it will be airing a special episode filmed in a single take.

Filmed in real time, it will be a fly-on-the-wall look at daily life in the emergency department.

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The ambitious episode will be at the end of the 30th series to celebrate the anniversary of the monumental run.

Called ‘One’, it will focus on nurse Duffy as she shows two teenage girls, Chloe and Diamond, who are on work experience around the hospital. It’s set to show the highs and lows of the running of the ED.

Although it won’t be shown to viewers live, a single camera will follow Duffy around and keep running throughout, meaning it’s as close to live as you can get without actually being live, and there is no room for error.

We’ll even see them attempt to move into an ambulance seamlessly, and there’s set to be 360 degree shots involved, with sound coming from 40 hidden radio microphones.

Cathy Shipton plays Duffy and she’s spoken about how excited she is to lead this very special episode.

“It’s so exciting and nerve-wracking to be working on this episode and unlike anything any of us cast or crew have ever attempted.

“It’s a brilliant fly-on-the-wall episode in real time, placing nurses central in the storyline. It will become a classic Casualty.”

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Series producer Erika Hossington said: “This special episode will give the audience a unique insight into an hour in A&E. It will be an intense, emotional hour in which staff and patients are faced with life-changing events.

“We want to reflect the front line in its unedited, rawest form, and this one shot episode, with a brilliant script from Casualty creator Paul Unwin, has given us the opportunity to do that.”

The show had previously ruled out a completely live show due to the constraints of not being able to do a traditional Casualty stunt.

But with cast and crew all keen to do something a bit different, the producers promised something special.


Kaggie Hyland
Editor-in-Chief