Thanks to all who voted for their favourite Ruth storyline of Series 24. The Unplanned pregnancy with Jay and abortion related miscarriage storyline was the clear favourite with Howard and the Excellorox trial being the least favourite. The full results can be seen here.

The new poll asks the question that is asked at the end of this week's spoilers below.

Ruth has a starring role in the new BBC Programme Information Casualty spoilers for the episode showing on 18th September, Chaos Theory, out today. It sounds like quite an exciting episode to say the least!

The Casualty Fans Facebook site has posted the new Series 25 Casualty cast photographs including the new one of Ruth.

Its September 1st, sunny and warm enough to melt artificial snow but Casualty were filming their Christmas episode today according to Tristan's tweets!

A Casualty tee shirt donated by Tristan Gemmill to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, signed by many cast members including Georgia, is up for auction on ebay.

Someone twittered that they spotted Georgia at Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow recording at the Bristol Hippodrome last Friday so its worth catching the new series which starts in the Autumn.

It was great to Georgia on Viva Blackpool again last night and if you missed it there's a chance, for the next week, to catch up on BBC IPlayer. Its a happy feel good storyline and Georgia looks gorgeous with long blonde hair.

Vicky Entwistle was interviewed on yesterday's This Morning and the video is available to watch on their website here.

Alan Bennett's The History Boys film gets its 3rd outing on television showing on Friday 10th September 23:50 to 01:40 on BBC2 and BBC HD.

The video preview for episode one of the new series of Casualty, Entry Wounds, is now available on the BBC official website.

For the first time since Ruth's wedding episode Georgia features in the BBC Programme Information Casualty spoilers out today for the 11th September episode, The Blame Game. Stephen Billington returns in his role as Edward Thurlow, Ruth's husband, meaning that Stephen must have filmed episodes either side of his March/April stint in theatre.

Sophia Di Martino (Polly in Casualty) can be seen starring in her role on Florizel Street in the BBC4 Autumn and Winter 2010 showreel released today. Sophia plays a character called Josie Scott who is the young assistant of casting director Margaret Morris (played by Jane Horrocks) in the one-off drama about the early days of Coronation Street. The drama was filmed this July.

The Royal Court Theatre where Georgia made her professional stage debut in The Woman Before featured heavily in last week's episode of Columbo, Dagger of the Mind, on ITV1. It hasn't changed much since 1972!

Thanks to all who voted in the poll for your favourite of Georgia's Casualty series. Series 24 came out top followed by Series 23 and Series 22. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll asks what was your favorite of Ruth's Series 24 storylines?

Vicky Entwistle,  Janice in Coronation Street, has given an in depth interview with today's News Of The World in which she says that her final Corrie dream before she leaves later this year is for the Battersbys to reunite for a final time.

It was a very quiet end of series episode for Ruth this time around but it was nice to see her and Kirsty becoming friendly at Adam's party at the very end. Here's to Series 25, a very big series for Ruth according to series producer Oliver Kent!

Martin Shaw, who is touring with Mark Letheren in The Country Girl, suffered a collapse on stage during the 1st act of the play at the opening night in Shrewsbury last night. Best wishes go out to Martin for a full and speedy recovery.

The one weekend break from Casualty is nicely filled by BBC4 re-showing Georgia's Viva Blackpool drama as part of an evening of programmes about the seaside resort to coincide with the Bank Holiday. Viva Blackpool can be seen on Sun 29th August between 21:00 and 22:30 (also between 01:10 and 02:40 on the 30th). 

This is the first repeat showing since its original airing on 10th June 2006.

The first BBC Programme Information spoilers for the new series of Casualty starting on 4th September are now out! The episode is called Entry Wounds and stars Michelle Collins, who is appearing on the Michael Ball Show on the preceding Tuesday 31st August.

Toyah Battersby is one of the characters included in a feature on the MSN website about "Soap's forgotten characters". Toyah isn't forgotten here!

The BBC Press Office has today released a new Press Pack detailing the exciting events occurring in the 1st, feature-length, episode of the new series of Casualty which starts on 4th September (a break of only one Saturday!). The Pack (spoilers) contains a synopsis of the 1st episode, interviews with Holby City crossover cast member Jaye Jacobs (nurse Donna Jackson), Tristan Gemmill and Steven Miller, and quotes from writer Mark Catley and series producer Oliver Kent.

Today was the final day of Casualty filming before the annual summer 2 week break according to Tristan Gemmill's twitter.

Toyah was given a mention in tonight's Corrie episode. Sally was explaining to the other factory girls about Janice being away visiting Toyah's house.

Thanks to all who voted in the poll, "Which Casualty cast regular would you most like to see underneath a falling tram?" Polly came out top by some distance with Lenny on his own in 2nd place. Dixie and Jeff received no votes at all. The full result can be seen here.

With only the 2 part finale to come in Series 24 of Casualty the new poll asks how this series compares to Georgia's previous two Casualty series.

If you're in the London vicinity this week there's an opportunity to catch Mark Letheren in his new touring production of The Country Girl. The show, about a washed up actor (played by Martin Shaw) and a young theatre director (played by Mark), is being performed at The Richmond Theatre, Richmond from 9th August through to16th August. Tickets can be bought online here.

More details on the show and all the other tour dates can be found on Mark's official site,  mark.letheren.org (News Section).

Georgia is listed in the Radio Times website cast list (spoilers) for the final episode of Casualty in Series 24, showing on the 21st August, called What Tonight Means To Me Part Two.

Its now possible to see, in its entirety, Georgia's excellent performance in the lead role of mechanic Molly in the very entertaining BBC Afternoon Play of the same name for free on the SeeSaw website.

Spoiler-wise Series 24 of Casualty is now at an end with the BBC Programme Information spoilers for the final episode showing on the 21st August, What Tonight Means To Me - Part II. Apart from collapsing after a miscarriage brought on by taking an abortion pill, having her flat robbed by her junkie brother, being involved with the trial of a dodgy new drug, and getting married to an eminent surgeon, its been a relatively quiet series for Ruth.

Next year's National Television Awards are being held once again at the O2 Arena on Weds 26th January 2011 with voting opening in September. Registering with the NTA site allows you to buy tickets before they go on general release on Aug 6th.

Vicky Entwistle, the actress who plays Toyah's mum Janice Battersby in Coronation Street, has announced that she is leaving the show. Her departure will coincide the 50th anniversary of the show later this year. Janice was the first Battersby to arrive in the Street, appearing in her first episode in Jan 1997, six months before the rest of the Battersby family arrived, and has been an ever present ever since.

Georgia is listed in the Radio Times website cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on the 14th August. Called What Tonight Means To Me Part One, this episode is the first part of the two part series 24 finale. The episode also sees the return of a recently departed character whose photograph we saw during last night's episode.

The Casualty fans Facebook page has added some new photographs from people's visits to the set in Bristol this week. Georgia looks absolutely gorgeous with a new quite blonde hair look!

Blackpool is today's choice for the Guardian "Your Next Box Set" feature. Georgia filmed the 6 episodes of Blackpool back in the spring and summer of 2004 and the series was first shown in Nov/Dec of that year.

The new BBC Programme Info spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on the 14th August, What Tonight Means To Me: Part I.

Ruth didn't feature in last Thursday's BBC Programme information spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 7th August, Nice And Easy Does It, but Georgia is in the locate.tv cast list (spoilers).

Again not much Ruth in tonight's episode but Georgia was privileged to be in Brenda Fricker's first scene back in Casualty with Ruth being the first doctor to treat Megan as she arrived in the E.D. Two Casualty legends together!

Due to holiday tonight will be the last site update until a week on Monday (26th July) so next week's Casualty captures will be a little late.

The new BBC Programme Info spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on the 31st July, The Enemy Within. This is the episode that stars Roxanne Pallett who used to be in Emmerdale.

Casualty has been nominated alongside The Bill, Holby City and Waterloo Road for this year's Inside Soap Award for Best Drama. Online voting is now open at insidesoap.co.uk.  

Georgia is in the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on 24th July, Making other Plans.

Thanks to all who gave their views on Ruth's wedding dress. It was a close call between a perfect and a pretty dress with pretty coming out on top by a single vote. The full result can be seen here.

With Corrie deciding upon a falling tram mass fatality storyline for its 50th anniversary, the new poll asks which regular Casualty cast member you'd most like to see under a tram if Casualty did a similar storyline for its 25th anniversary.

Casualty writer, Mark Catley, who was responsible for Georgia's Sex and Death flashback episode, has given a talk to a TV Writer's Festival. In the talk he describes the process of writing for Casualty and how the goal of Casualty writing now is to show a story rather than tell a story. He says of a 48 episode series that 6 episodes are great, 25 are good or very good but that there are a few turkeys.

There is no new BBC Programme information for Casualty this week because of the one week shift due to the World Cup. Therefore the information given for the 24th July episode is the same that was given last week for an episode entitled, Making Other Plans.

I recently came across these lovely photographs of Georgia out with her brother David at the opening of The Comedy Store in Manchester10 years ago. The family likeness is very strong! David appeared on Coronation Street several times as an extra back in 2003.

The new BBC Programme information spoilers are out for the episode of Casualty showing on the 17th July, Making Other Plans. Because of the football replacing this Saturday's Casualty, this episode will most likely be shown on 24th July.

Georgia's artwork, for the charity Action For Children, of her own personal journey from Coronation Street's Rovers Return to the Royal Court theatre has now been put up for online auction. You need to register with the website givinglots.co.uk in order to make a bid before the auction closes on the 29th July @ 12:00.

The Manchester Evening News website has announced the cast for the one off BBC4 drama celebrating the 50th anniversary of Coronation Street which started filming in Manchester yesterday. The cast includes Casualty's own Sophia Di Martino (Polly) although the article doesn't reveal which Corrie star she'll be playing - perhaps the actress who played Elsie Tanner's daughter, Linda, seen in this 1960 cast photo on corrie.net?

There is no Casualty this Saturday, 3rd July, due to BBC showing the World Cup Quarter Final between Paraguay and Spain/Portugal. Ruth and Edward can have another week on their honeymoon.

The official BBC Casualty website has released another set of episode titles and mini-spoilers covering episodes 42-46.

Yesterday's News Of the World reported that an insider has revealed that Coronation Street are planning another rape plot this time involving David and Tina. Georgia won many plaudits and several awards for her portrayal of Toyah's rape back in 2001.

Thanks to all who voted in the the previous poll when only 17% of people thought that Ruth would go through with her wedding to Edward.

The new poll asks whether Ruth's choice in wedding dress was better than her choice in groom.

It was quite surprising that Ruth decided to marry Edward but I can't see the marriage working out especially as, due to their height difference, the only time they can be together is on stairs. There were some nice other scenes with Ruth holding the baby and her scene with the drunk woman in the toilets.

Ruth appears in the BBC Casualty website preview video for next week's episode, Going Solo. The video contains a disturbing scene guidance warning.

The BBC website today has a new article about Casualty's move to Cardiff Bay next year. Construction work on the new Drama Village housing Dr Who, Casualty and Pobol y Cwm officially began today. The article suggests the first Casualty episode will be filmed in the autumn of 2011 and be shown in early 2012.

(Update 28/06: In pictures.)

The new BBC Programme information spoilers are out for the episode of Casualty showing on the 10th July, I Am Mine. This is the episode the BBC Casualty website prematurely published the cast list for and the good news is Georgia is in the cast!

USA's late goal in the World Cup today means Ruth's wedding to Edward is still going ahead this Saturday.

Today's television magazines contain the first pictures of Ruth in her wedding dress (she's not attending her wedding in her pink top and blazer after all!). Its very stylish and not too over the top and Ruth looks amazing!

Georgia, credited as Ruth Winters, appears in the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on July 3rd, Going Solo.

Not much Ruth in tonight's Casualty but she did look lovely with her hair up. Ruth does feature in next week's preview video (spoilers) on the BBC Casualty website. Unless Ruth goes home to get changed it looks like her wedding outfit will be the pink top and navy jacket combination she wore in last week's episode.

The BBC Casualty website seems to have skipped a couple of episodes in its "Next Episode" page (spoilers) which gives details of a episode called "I am Mine" - possibly the 10th July episode. This episode has the return of Brenda Fricker as Megan Roach and also has Georgia credited as Ruth Winters!

The Whats On TV website now has its spoilers for the 26th June episode of Casualty, Die And Let Live.

Unfortunately this week's BBC Programme information spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on 3rd July give nothing away about whether Ruth marries Edward or not. Therefore the poll has been reopened for a bit longer. 

The episode title, Going Solo, may be a clue and if Georgia does appear in the episode then Sunday's locate.tv cast list should reveal if she's credited as Ruth Winters or Ruth Thurlow.

Oliver Kent, the Casualty series producer, has done another of his periodic interviews with the Digital Spy website. This one contains lots on the end of Series 24 and into Series 25. Amongst other things he reveals that,

"In a few weeks' time, those who love Ruth are in for a bit of a treat." 

and on Ruth in Series 25;

"it'll be a very big series for her"!

Kerrie Hayes who played Ruby Moss, Georgia's character Phyllis Cook's best friend and fellow Olympic swimmer in the period drama Lilies, is appearing in Casualty in the 26th June episode. She plays a character called Poppy Wells.

Thanks to all who voted in the previous poll, "Favourite Ruth Ladies' Room Scene". The most voted for scene was the one where Ruth kicked down the cubicle door in order to save an overdosing patient.

The new poll asks if Ruth will marry Edward Thurlow.

The locate.tv cast list (spoilers) is out for the 26th June episode of Casualty, Die And Let Live, and a certain conference organiser makes his return.

The Casualty Fans Facebook group has added some new Behind the Scenes photographs including one from Ruth's seminar venue that featured in last week's episode.

There's a really big Ruth shock in this week's BBC Programme information spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on 26th June, Die And Let Live. This is also the episode where Ruth holds a baby and Corrie's Rita May (Connie) appears.

The Casualty cast seem to have been camera shy again at last night's BAFTAs but I did manage to find a couple of photographs of Sunetra and Suzanne on the Red Carpet.

Thanks to everyone who voted In the previous poll "Who do you think will win this year's Continuing Drama BAFTA?". The 78% of people who thought Casualty would win were unfortunately proved to be wrong.

The new poll is about Ruth's scenes that have taken place in the Ladies' Room.

Unfortunately Casualty lost out to Eastenders at last night's BAFTAs Awards. It doesn't appear that Georgia was one of the cast members who attended this year. Sunetra Sarker (Zoe), Suzanne Packer (Tess) and Steven Miller (Lenny) were all spotted in the London Palladium audience.

Georgia is in the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on the 19 June, The Lesser Good.

Georgia once again showed her versatility with some great comedic timing acting in tonight's Casualty. Ruth's dress was also very classy and stylish as well as showing her figure to perfection. Stephen Billington must be quite tall as he was stood two steps below Ruth on the spiral staircase in order to be at the same level! 

According to a tweet by Evelyn Hoskins (@EvelynHoskins) who plays Shona, Stephen's character, Edward, is in Casualty for a few episodes! 

The new BBC Programme Info spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on the 19th June, The Lesser Good. The episode appears to be unusual in that's its one hour long from 20:00 to 21:00. It also clashes with Cameroon v Denmark (kickoff 19:30).

The BBC Casualty website preview clip for this Saturday's episode is now up. Thanks to georgiatfan for the link. There's also a review of Saturday's episode on the Radio Times website (spoilers).

The real mother of a baby Ruth holds in an up and coming Casualty episode has posted about her Casualty experiences on the holby.tv forum and describes Georgia as "really lovely". The episode, which features Corrie's Connie as the baby's grandmother, was filmed on 11th March a few days after Georgia's birthday party and therefore should be coming up about the end of June/early July.

Georgia is in the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on the 12 June, Inconvenient Truths. No sign of Stephen Billington although he could still appear in the complete cast list published later in the week.

Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll about new nurse Kirsty. 87% of people either loved, liked or thought she was OK!

There's no Casualty this weekend but there's a double dose of Casualty next weekend with the show nominated for the BAFTA Continuing Drama Award in Sunday's ceremony being shown on BBC1 from 20:00 to 22:00. This award has been won by outsiders, Casualty, Holby and The Bill for the past 3 years.

The new poll asks "Who do you think will win this year's Continuing Drama BAFTA?" (The award is actually for the calendar year 2009).

The What's On TV website has been updated with its spoilers for the 5th June episode of Casualty.

A new channel, BBC One HD, is launching this autumn according to a press release from the BBC today. The release also states that plans are underway for a Casualty move to HD.

Today is Toyah's 28th birthday! Hopefully she might get a mention from either Janice or Leanne in tonight's Coronation Street episodes.

The new BBC Programme Info spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on the 12th June, Inconvenient Truths. A late start of 9:20 p.m. should ensure that England's opening World Cup game against the USA (kickoff 7:30 p.m.) will be complete but it will be tight.

Coronation Street today revealed its new title sequence that will premiered on Bank Holiday Monday to coincide with the first ever Corrie HD episode. A video of the titles can be found on the DigitalSpy website.

This week's pauseliveaction Casualty blog is about how magnificent Ruth was at the weekend.

locate.tv have published their spoilers for the episode of Casualty to be shown on 5th June, In Your Debt. Stephen Billington's conference organiser character is called Edward Thurlow.

Ruth was back to her awesome best in tonight's Casualty and well done for the BBC for delaying the episode until precisely one minute after the Champions League final finished too!

Casualty seems to have fallen about 4 months behind real time and Stephen appeared in a play between 30th March and 24th April. Assuming a month's rehearsal that would make his last possible Casualty filming at the end of February which would make a final possible Casualty on screen appearance to be at the end of June.

Today's BBC Programme Info spoilers, for the 5th June episode of Casualty, In Your Debt, reveal that Ruth becomes smitten with a big name doctor called Edward. Edward is played Stephen Billington who formerly was Battersby family member Greg Kelly, Les Battersby's illegitimate son, back in 1998. 

To see what happened when Toyah first met Greg "right click and save as" the following video (17MB).

Ruth has made the holby.tv homepage photograph for this Saturday's episode of Casualty, Mum's The Word.

Gillian Kearney (Jessica) and Tristan Gemmill (Adam) from Casualty are up for Best Actress and Best Actor at this year's TV Choice Awards. Casualty is also up for Best Family Drama. Jane Danson from Corrie is up for Best Soap Actress. 
Voting is open until June 11th on the TV Choice website.

Well done to Jane Danson (Leanne in Corrie) who finished the Great Manchester 10km run in a respectable 1hr 14 mins raising money for the Christie Hospital in Manchester.

Lucy Gaskell's Angela and Friends interview has now been uploaded to the show's official website. Lucy talks about how Georgia and herself, although having not worked together before, were at the Royal Exchange in Manchester at the same time but in different plays.

Thanks to all who voted in the poll to decide which was the best "foot pulling off scene" between Ruth's and May's. Ruth's scene was voted the best with 71%. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll seeks opinion on new nurse, Kirsty Clements.

Jane Danson is running in the Great Manchester 10k run tomorrow raising money for the Christie Hospital in Manchester. Jane has a page on the justgiving site where people can donate to this very good cause. Good luck to Jane! The run can be seen on BBC2 tomorrow between 10.00 and 11.30 a.m.

Lucy Gaskell mentions in today's Sun TV Mag that she and Georgia have been told off for giggling on the Casualty set! Lucy also reveals that she sat next to Georgia in Maths and English lessons at school.

Two more, possibly related, spoilers have come out about Ruth today, for the 22nd May episode of Casualty, Mum's The Word.

From the BBC Casualty website:  -(Ruth stands up for her beliefs with surprising results)-
From the What's On TV website:  -(it looks like romance might be on the cards for Ruth!)-

(credit gerogiatfan for 1st spoiler.)

Also Lucy Gaskell was on the Sky1 Angela and Friends chatshow yesterday but unfortunately it doesn't appear to be available anywhere to watch :(.

There is no episode of Casualty on the 29th May due to the Eurovision Song Contest. Luckily Georgia features heavily in the episode on the 22nd May with SoapLife magazine revealing this spoiler -(Ruth decides to go for it and become a surgeon.)- This is the episode in which Jon Lee from S Club 7 appears and he's given an interview with lastbroadcast.co.uk (thanks to gerogiatfan for link).

holby.tv has a new and revealing interview with Georgia's friend Lucy.

It was five years ago today that Georgia made her professional stage debut in The Woman Before at the prestigious Royal Court Theatre in London. Georgia can be seen in this never seen before photograph arriving for the first preview performance.

Georgia's Justin Canning photoshoot, which has previously only been available in low quality, has today been posted in High Quality on several web forums. The photographs are amazing in small size but when you see them in High Definition you can really appreciate how stunningly beautiful Georgia is. Prepare to taken aback and blown away at this (safe) link!

Today's magazines feature quite a few interviews with Georgia's friend Lucy Gaskell who plays new mental health nurse, Kirsty Clements in Casualty. Lucy makes some nice references to Georgia including;

"I'm actually really good friends with Georgia Taylor, who plays Ruth, because we went to high school together. We've known each other since we were 11, so she was the second person I told when I got this role - after my mum, of course." Inside Soap

"We went to a proper Roman Catholic high school, where we had prayers every morning. We were really good mates, and we both wanted to be actresses. We'd be in the school plays together." TV Quick

Tonight saw Blanche, played by the wonderful Maggie Jones, laid to rest in Corrie. Although Georgia didn't have that many scenes with Maggie, I did manage to dig up a lovely one of a typically impatient Blanche being served by Toyah in the Cafe (right click and "Save As" on picture).

Casualty has once again been nominated for the Best Continuing Drama Award at the BAFTA Television Awards. Last year it was up against Eastenders, The Bill and Emmerdale with The Bill winning the award whereas this year its Eastenders, The Bill and Coronation Street.

After one year at the Royal Festival Hall, the ceremony returns to The London Palladium on Sunday June 6th and is once again hosted by Graham Norton. Unfortunately, unlike at the Royal Festival Hall, public tickets don't seem to be available.

Northern Irish actress, Jayne Wisener is going to be playing a character called Simone in 5 episodes of the new series of Casualty according to this article from the Coleraine Times and her agent's page.

Tonight sees the staging of the 12th British Soap Awards (Georgia attended the first five) at the BBC Television Centre. Jane Danson arrived with Simon Bain who plays Simon Barlow. Jane will be hoping that Corrie wins "Best Single Episode" and "Best Storyline", when she was brilliant in dealing with Peter's alcoholism, and Robert Beck wins "Villain of the Year".

The official BBC Casualty website has just posted a new two minute video (spoilers) of dramatic events occurring in the final 14 episodes of this series. Thanks to georgiatfan for this exciting piece of news!

Everyone seems to be leaving Casualty at the moment. Today came news of a 2nd departure in successive weeks. Laura Aikman(May)'s last episode is this Saturday according to an interview (spoilers) with What's On TV online.

In a previous interview with Inside Soap, Laura revealed that "Georgia and I get on really well" and "luckily, in real life we're not at all like our characters!"

Ruth stars again in the new BBC Programme Info spoilers out today for the episode of Casualty showing on the 22nd May, Mum's The Word.

Best of luck to Georgia's friend and one time colleague Sally Whittaker (Sally Webster in Corrie), who this week revealed that she's battled cancer in real life.

It was good to see Ruth back again in tonight's Casualty. Georgia definitely looked to have lighter hair than before and it seemed to match a more lighter side to Ruth's personality that came out in the episode.

Ruth features in the new BBC Programme Info spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 15th May, Russian Endings. There's also a new interview (also on lastbroadcast.co.uk) with Lucy Gaskell who arrives as new nurse Kirsty Clements during this episode.

The official BBC Casualty website has added some new mini spoilers for episodes 37-41 (the dates are still incorrect by one week due to the episode lost to Rugby) and there's also a feature on soon to be joining new nurse, Kirsty Clements, played by Georgia's friend Lucy Gaskell.

It has been officially announced that this Saturday's episode of Casualty, New Beginnings, will sadly be the last for Sam Grey who plays Alice Chantrey. The news appeared today on the holby.tv news section.

Thanks to all who voted in the poll about musical tastes. 85% agreed with Georgia in preferring Kings Of Leon over ABBA. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll asks which foot pulling off scene you preferred, May's or Ruth's?

Its a year ago this Sunday since Georgia attended the BAFTA Television Awards at the Royal Festival Hall on a glorious late April day. The youtube video of Georgia and other Casualty cast signing autographs outside the Hall shows how sunny is was.

After last night's disappointment there's good news as Georgia is definitely in next week's Casualty because Ruth features in the preview clip on the BBC website! Georgia also makes the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the 8th May as does a surprise returnee!

History was made in tonight's Casualty as it was the very first episode in which Georgia appeared in the credits but didn't appear in the episode. Something very strange is happening with the credits at the moment as, in last week's episode, the same happened to Sam Grey with Sunetra Sarker appearing whilst not credited.

The BBC Programme Info spoilers are out for the episode of Casualty showing on the 8th May, A Better Past. This is the episode before the one in which Lucy Gaskell makes her debut as mental heath nurse, Kirsty Clements, and it sounds like she'll have her work cut out treating the staff never mind the patients.

The Bolton Octagon Theatre blog has some terrific rehearsal and production photographs from Mark Letheren's new play,
The Comedians, which is running from 15th April until 8th May. Not sure about the moustache or his co-star!

Georgia is in the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the Casualty episode showing on 1st May, New Beginnings. This is the 2nd part of the 2 parter. (It is Season 24 not Season 23 as locate.tv seem to be suggesting!)

Filming on series 25 filming began today and according to a Tristan Gemmill tweet the collective cast photograph for the new series was also taken.

David Roden, the script editor on Casualty, has produced a fascinating tour of the set film for the website exposureroom.com. During the tour he reveals several filming secrets such as the lift doors don't actually work and are pushed closed by hand with accompanying sound affects. Sunetra Sarker (Zoe) also makes an appearance.

The BBC Programme Info spoilers are out for the episode of Casualty showing on the 1st May, New Beginnings. This is the 2nd part of a two parter the first part of which,  Alone On A Wide, Wide Sea is showing on the 24th April.

Georgia is in the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the Casualty episode showing on 24th April, Alone On A Wide, Wide Sea. Interestingly there's no sign of Howard Fairfax.

Casualty production staff are organising a lunchtime protest outside the BBC Production Studios in Bristol this Wednesday 14th April. The protest is over BBC executive plans to dismiss Props Department workers weeks before they are due to complete a full year in their posts and hence obtaining increased employment rights.

A reminder that the Watch channel is showing Georgia's dedicated flashback episode, Sex And Death, tomorrow between 8-9 a.m. and 11-12 a.m. The episode was first shown on 9th February 2008.

No Ruth last night but she does star in the BBC Casualty website preview clip for next week's episode, Clean Slate.

Dr May Phelps has won the "Who is the 2nd most attractive female in Casualty at the moment?" poll with 45% of the vote. Alice came 2nd with 21%. Thanks to all who voted and the full result can be seen here. 

The new poll is about musical tastes.

The BBC Programme Info spoilers are out for the episode of Casualty showing on the 24th April, Alone On A Wide, Wide Sea. This is the 1st part of a two parter that continues into the following week's episode, New Beginnings.

locate.tv has some new Ruth related spoilers for the 17th April Casualty episode, Clean Slate.

It was great to see Georgia in some very moving scenes with the legendary Stephanie Beacham last night. Ruth operated on Monica wearing her Invisible Woman from The Fantastic Four scarf that Dr Doom gave her inside an Xmas cracker.

Big Tank, the production company behind Georgia's Soul Shutter short, have recently revamped their website that now includes some more production stills. Georgia proves, in a previously unseen photograph, that acting isn't always hard work!

In tonight's Casualty Stephanie Beecham's character, Monica, offers Ruth some advice about the opposite sex according to this article (spoilers) from today's Daily Express website.

From today ITV have started broadcasting many of their shows in High Definition on a new 24 hour channel. Its long overdue since Georgia did any interviews with This Morning, Loose Woman or GMTV so hopefully (fingers crossed), she might do one soon in HD! Georgia did appear in HD on the Paul O'Grady Show in 2008 and Lilies, The History Boys and The Bank Job were all filmed in HD.

Someone kindly pointed me in the direction of lastbroadcast.co.uk, a site that contains lots of Casualty spoilers and interviews. There's a new interview with Stephanie Beacham about tomorrow's episode here.

Ruth is involved in the BBC Programme Info spoilers out today for the episode of Casualty showing on the 17th April, Clean Slate.

The BBC Casualty website has had the audacity to cut off Georgia's head from the publicity photograph for this Saturday's episode in order to centre on Stephanie Beacham. I think complaints should be made to the BBC.

The What's On TV website also has a new interview with Stephanie.

An exuberant video made by the cast and crew of Blackpool for the end of filming wrap party has come to light on youtube. In the video Georgia does a great Tubbs from The League of Gentleman impression with Steve Pemberton, the original Tubbs, to the music of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now!

Georgia isn't in the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on 10th April, Loves Me, Loves Me Not. You can still catch Georgia in the Watch channel Series 22 repeats, in the episodes leading up to Ruth's suicide attempt, including;

Friday 9th April, Before A Fall (8-9 a.m and 11-12 a.m)
Monday 12th April, Sex And Death (8-9 a.m and 11-12 a.m)

The Whats On TV website has spoilers about Ruth's storyline in this Saturday's episode of Casualty.

Today's Guardian online has a nice review of  last Saturday's episode of Casualty taken from an occasional viewer's perspective.

Not much of Ruth in tonight's Casualty and the outdoor scene looked very cold for Georgia to film! Georgia has top billing for next week's episode though and is featured in the preview picture along with Stephanie Beacham from Celebrity Big Brother. Stephanie must have filmed the episode just before entering the CBB house in January.

Rex Features have added some photographs of Georgia and Bruce Jones meeting Matthew Corbett and Sooty and Sweep during their appearance on Sooty + Co back in 1998. Video of their appearance can still be seen on youtube here.

Eagle eyed viewers may have spotted something familiar about the female witness to Gail's argument with Joe whom David sought out in tonight's Corrie. The witness, Jane Kenworthy, was played by Annie Fitzmaurice who had some emotional Corrie scenes with Georgia playing D.S. Groves, the investigating officer into Toyah's rape.

The BBC Programme Info spoilers are out for episode of Casualty showing on the 10th April, Loves Me, Loves Me Not.

Vicky Entwistle is the subject of this week's Inside Soap feature, At Your Mercy, and one of the questions she answers is "Are you still in touch with Bruce Jones and Georgia Taylor?":-

I haven't seen Georgia for awhile, but I've spoken to Bruce a few times recently. If rumours in the press about a possible wedding for Peter and Leanne are to be believed, I'd love Bruce to come back so Les can give her away. Georgia's doing well in Casualty, so I'm not sure she'd be able to commit to Corrie long-term. But it would be great for the Battersbys to be reunited for at least one episode.

Someone has posted photographs on a web forum of the construction work in progress on the new BBC Drama Centre at Cardiff's Roath Basin. According to Tristan Gemmill's twitter page, Casualty's move to Cardiff is due to occur seamlessly between Series 25 and 26 which should be around May 2011.

Thanks for all the votes in the "Who do you think sent Jay his anonymous Valentine card" poll. The clear winner in the poll was Polly with over half the votes with Ruth coming 2nd with 30%. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll asks who is the 2nd most attractive female in Casualty at the moment.

No Casualty this weekend and no Casualty stars spotted running in today's Bristol Sport Relief mile either :(. I thought I'd repost a capture of Georgia and Sam from the 2008 Sport Relief!

Georgia heads the cast for the episode of Casualty showing on the 3rd April, Love Of A Good Man n the BBC Programme Info spoilers. This is the episode that Stephanie Beacham guests and she is involved in Ruth's storyline that is described in a special Casualty feature.

The BBC confirmed today that Georgia's ex school pal, Lucy Gaskell, has joined Casualty playing nurse Kirsty Clements. Lucy has already appeared in scenes with Georgia and their Casualty characters don't get on with each other according to Lucy's interview on today's BBC Press site.

The Sport Relief Mile events are taking place this Sunday across the country, including in Bristol. Georgia, along with Sam Grey (Alice in Casualty) ran the mile the last time it was staged back in 2008 and were interviewed on BBC1's Sport Relief Mile Show and BBC local news. This year's event is also being televised, showing on BBC1 on Sunday between 16:05 and 17:35.

No sign (so far) of Georgia or any Casualty people in the photo agency arrivals pictures for tonight's RTS Awards. There are several Corrie stars shown attending including Jane Danson who looks stunning in a full length turquoise dress. Update: 17/03 - Casualty loses out to Eastenders.

Casualty is competing, against Eastenders and The Bill, for best "Soap and Continuing Drama" at the Royal Television Society Awards this Tuesday (16th March). Tickets can be bought for the dinner event, being hosted by Rob Brydon, at the Grosvenor House Hotel London, but they cost £169 + VAT!

The Bolton Octagon blog now has numerous production and behind the scenes photographs from And Did Those Feet which opened last night. Mark Letheren stars alongside Naomi Radcliffe who played Kevin Webster's partner, Alison, in Coronation Street. (Clicking "View All Images" takes you to the slide.com site where the photographs can be seen in full size!)

Ruth features in the BBC Programme Info spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 27th March, Boys Don't Cry. Another ex-Corrie colleague of Georgia's is involved in the episode, Gabrielle Glaister, who played Natalie's sister, Debs.

Georgia didn't appear on tonight's Blue Peter as Joel, the BP presenter acted out a scene with Jay, Charlie and Tess. There were also pieces with the paramedics Jeff, Dixie and Polly as well as director interviews. The episode is on iplayer here and there's also additional scenes on the BBC Blue Peter website.

Jane Danson (Leanne Battersby) has done a long interview with today's Daily Record newspaper in which she talks about filming scenes in Blackpool in freezing January. Jane was following in Georgia's footsteps as she also filmed in Blackpool in January for Viva Blackpool 4 years ago.

With FA Cup fever sweeping the country this weekend (and Bolton beating West Ham) there's a nice photograph of the cast of Mark Letheren's new play on the Bolton Octagon blog. Mark has his hand on a replica of the 1923 FA Cup that will be used during the play, And Did Those Feet, which opens this Thursday, 11th March.

The BBC website now has its detailed episode summary (spoilers) of next Saturday's Casualty episode, English Beauty.

Having been away for a week I've produced a summary of this week's news;

• Casualty has been nominated for the Best Soap/Continuing Drama award at this this year's Royal Television Society (RTS) ceremony. Casualty is up against Eastenders and The Bill in the event taking place at London's Grosvenor House on Tues March 16.
  
  
• Casualty actors will be appearing on BBC1's Blue Peter show, next Wednesday, 10th March (16:35 - 17:00) when presenter, Joel Defries, recreates a scene with some of it's stars.
  
  
• There is no Casualty episode being show on Saturday 20th March due to the finale of the Rugby Six Nations tournament. This should have been the night episode, Boys Don't Cry (spoilers), was shown.

The Casualty Fans Facebook group has added another lovely, behind the scenes, photograph of Georgia, this time with Sam Grey (Alice). I think Georgia's long, curly hair dates the photograph to the beginning of Series 23 (Sept 08) - when Nick Jordan said "I like your hair by the way".

Thanks for all who voted in the "Which of her colleagues will Ruth find herself in an impossible, career versus truth, situation with?" poll. Jay was the overwhelming selection with 70 per cent of the votes (full results can be seen here).  

The new poll concerns the identify of Jay's Valentine card admirer.

Leanne and Peter's wedding might be the centrepiece of Corrie's 50th anniversary celebrations at the end of this year. This would give great potential for a guest appearance return for Toyah. Georgia starred in the special live episode back in December 2000 for the 40th anniversary.

It was nice to see Scott Wright, Toyah's long term boyfriend Sam in Corrie, be involved in Georgia's storyline tonight. Sam left Corrie back in 2002 with a broken arm and 8 years later he's having a boil lanced by Dr Winters!

I have a suspicion that Georgia is having her birthday party this evening. Georgia's fellow Wigan Willpower Youth Theatre and Corrie actor, Philip McGinley (Liam's cousin Tom in Corrie), has tweeted today about attending a party tonight where there'll be lots of actresses!

The BBC Casualty website now has a detailed episode summary for next Saturday's episode, Angel (spoilers).

Many happy returns to Georgia who celebrates her birthday today!

Ruth features in the BBC Programme Info spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 13th March, English Beauty.

Georgia's birthday is only 5 days away, this Friday 26th February. Still time to send a card to;

• Georgia Taylor
• BBC Bristol,
• PO Box 2183,
• Bristol,
• BS2 0WY

Another quiet episode for Georgia but at least Ruth had several small scenes. Although they didn't have any real dialogue together it was strange to see Georgia in scenes with Jack Deam, who played Phil Simmonds in Coronation Street.

According to a thread on holby.tv Georgia, and other Casualty stars, appeared in this evening's Eastenders Live: the Aftermath. This show is repeated tonight on BBC3 between 23:00 and 00:00.

There's a double dose of Casualty tomorrow night as actors Charles Dale (Big Mac), Tony Marshall (Noel) and Ben Turner (Jay) all appear in the first installment of Let's Dance for Sport Relief on BBC1 from 18:30 to 19:45.

Ruth features in the BBC Programme Info spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 6th March, Angel, and also in a special feature about the new male doctors.

Georgia has just helped launch a Midnight Walk charity campaign for St. Peter's hospice in Bristol. Georgia's campaign launch appears on today's thisisbristol.co.uk website and also on the bristolmidnightwalk.co.uk website (Georgia looks quite blonde again in the 2nd photograph!).

There's a small spoiler about Ruth for the 27th February episode of Casualty, Life Sentence, <Fairfax makes a proposal to Ruth> in this forthnight's All About Soap magazine. Also locate.tv's spoilers for that episode elaborate on Ruth's storyline.

Yesterday's Wales Online reported that homeowners living at Cardiff's Roath Basin are unhappy about the neon light pollution, reduced parking and increased congestion the new BBC studios will cause.

Casualty costs 250k an hour to produce according to an article in today's Guardian.

Daphne Alexander who played nurse Nadia Talianos in Casualty back in 2007 appears in the new Roman Polanski film, The Ghost Writer. The  film, about a ghost writer (Ewan McGregor) for a British PM (Pierce Brosnan), premiered last week at the Berlin Film Festival.

Thanks for all the votes in the poll as to whether you would prefer to see more of Ruth running or Jay playing football. After a neck and neck start Ruth pulled away and won the poll by a margin of 10 votes (full results can be seen here).  

To celebrate the victory I've produced a 3 minute video homage to Ruth's lycra track suited moments from the past 3 series. To download right click the image above and "Save Target/Link As" (DivX 19MB). 

The new poll concerns the recent Ruth related March mini-spoiler.

Its two weeks today (26th Feb) that Georgia celebrates her big birthday. The address to send cards to Georgia is;

• Georgia Taylor
• BBC Bristol,
• PO Box 2183,
• Bristol,
• BS2 0WY

Hopefully we can send lots of cards to cheer her up on the day!

Georgia is in the full locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the Casualty episode showing on the 20th February, Past Lives. This is the episode Mark Letheren returns as counsellor, Ben Harding.

Ruth features in the BBC Programme Info spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 27th February, Life Sentence. Ruth's storyline involves working with a new mentor, Howard Fairfax, played by Michael Maloney. This episode is also the one featuring Scott Wright, who played Sam the Stripper in Corrie.

There are strong rumours that Georgia's fellow Wiganer, Lucy Gaskell, is the new Casualty regular mentioned in Tristan Gemmill's recent tweets. Georgia attended Lucy's wedding in 2008 and Lucy has also filmed the current series of Being Human in Georgia's vicinity of Bristol.

The Dorset Echo ran an interesting article about the young actress who played the disfigured girl Sally, whose father Ruth treated in tonight's Casualty.

Jane Danson gave a fabulous performance as Leanne in tonight's Coronation Street and today, Fairfield General Hospital have thanked Jane for her generous donation of 250k from her Soapstar Superstar performance that helped refurbish a kitchen and baby rooms.

Mark Letheren (Ben in Casualty) is appearing in 2 new back-to-back plays at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton, "And Did Those Feet" (11th March - 10th April) and "The Comedians" (15th April - 8th May). 

Details can be found on Mark's site (News section) and on the Octagon website.

Celebrity Big Brother finalist, Stephanie Beacham, filmed an episode of Casualty before entering the house that is due to be screened next month according to yesterday's Daily Mirror online.

There are some new faces and the return of a familiar counsellor (?) revealed in the BBC Programme Info spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 20th February, Past Lives.

The official BBC Casualty website has also added a new set of episode titles and mini-spoilers up until Episode 36 (1st May).

Bruce Jones and Scott Wright, who played Toyah's dad Les and boyfriend Sam are reunited in a new sitcom called That Band. Details are on today's Sun online. Scott will also be appearing in Casualty on the 27th February and he has his own twitter page.

Georgia is in the full locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the Casualty episode showing on the 13th February, Love Is A Battlefield.

The Casualty Fans Facebook group has added a collection of behind the scenes filming photographs, including a nice one of Gillian and Georgia wearing Xmas hats!

The BBC Programme Info spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 13th February, Love Is A Battlefield, are now out.

Georgia is in the full locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the Casualty episode showing on the 6th February, An Ugly Truth.

Although tonight's Casualty was another of the everyone being horrible to Ruth and Ruth having a zero smile count variety, it was good to see Georgia working with one to one scenes with Laura Aikman. Its long overdue for Ruth to get involved with other characters other than Jay.

Tristan (twitter.com/TristanGemmill) tweeted today that "Georgia and Ben are fantastic actors and great 2 work with"!

The What's On TV website has a longer version (spoilers) of Georgia's magazine interview about tomorrow's May Phelps storyline.

The new BBC Programme Info spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 6th February, An Ugly Truth, are now out.

The Casualty lot in the bottom right corner.	Gillian and Tristan being filmed for the classic "look of disappointment".	Tristan chatting to guests during an advert break.

The Casualty cast where seated immediately behind the BB people as they were last time and were having chats with self proclaimed Casualty fan, Davina. 

Ben Turner must have a way with woman as he was seated between Sunetra and Sophia and when, they both went out for a comfort break, two other attractive women came and sat beside him. Not sure what was going on there?

The O2 isn't as intimate as the Royal Albert Hall and there seemed more emphasis on extracting cash from the public such as charging £5 for an 8 page programme rather than it being free. The O2 is also very cold in winter!

Unfortunately Georgia wasn't one of the Casualty representatives at tonight's National Television Awards held at the O2 Arena. The Casualty crew consisted of Gillian, Tristan, Sunetra, Ben and Sophia. I'll add some photographs soon if any turn out!

Casualty will start production in the summer of 2011 at BBC's new Cardiff Bay drama village according to a Press Association release today. Construction on the new village will begin in the 'coming months'.

I recently came across this very early photograph (circa June 1997) of the fledgling Battersbys - Georgia, Jane and Vicky, taken outside what appears to be Granada Studios. They all look amazingly young and Georgia and Jane are both wearing some interesting footwear!

Very little of Ruth in tonight's Casualty and what there was in black and white! Another former Corrie colleague of Georgia's made an appearance as the social worker in Jessica's flashback - Rebecca Sarker who played Vik's sister, Nita Desai.

Ruth does appear in BBC Casualty website video preview for next week's episode, Last Roll Of The Dice, and there's also this curious spoiler for that episode on DigiGuide, < Ruth and Jeff come to blows > !

Ruth features in today's new BBC Programme Info spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 30th January, The Cradle Will Fall.

Thanks to all who voted to choose their favourite Georgia Casualty episode of 2009. The top choice was Not Forgotten which was the episode where Georgia rehearsed her talk with Amir, Ruth and Jay went public, and Jay found Ruth's Allen key. The top 3 episodes were;

1. Not Forgotten 34%
2. Parent Trap (Ruth kisses Jay in lift) 23%
3. Love is a Sacrifice (Ruth collapses at surgeons' dinner) 17%

The full results can be seen here.

The new poll is about exercise.

According to an article in today's Guardian Ben Stephenson, the controller of BBC drama commissioning is poised to cull several of BBC's long running dramas but that Casualty, Holby City, Waterloo Road and New Tricks are all thought to be safe.

Yesterday's Guardian had an interesting article by journalist Jonathan Wright entitled "My house is on the telly" about how the BBC3 supernatural series, Being Human is filmed in his (and Georgia's) area of Bristol, Totterdown.

According to Tristan's Twitter page he will be appearing as a guest on next weekend's Saturday Kitchen and he's asking for ideas for food hell/heaven.

The site has finally gone round the clock and reached 100,000 hits today! It took nearly 10 years but it got there in the end! Thanks to all who have visited in that time!

If you're a fan of Ruth's on/off relationship with nurse Jay Faldren then Charlotte, a moderator on the Ruth and Jay Online site,  recommends their newly revamped forum with has many active members discussing all things Ruth and Jay related and has tonnes of graphics, videos and stories available to members.

The Guardian is reporting that the outdoor set of Coronation Street is to be demolished with the new ITV chairman pressing ahead with a planned move of the show from Quay Street to Salford Quays.

Gillian Kearney has revealed in today's Sunday People newspaper that next month will see her final on screen appearance as nurse Jessica Harrison in Casualty. Gillian joined Casualty a few months after Georgia, making her first screen appearance in January 2008. In the People article Gillian mentions that she'll miss Sunetra (Zoe) and Georgia. In a previous article Georgia revealed that Gillian was part of a Northern Collective of Casualty actresses that all socialised together. 

It seems twitter has finally reached Casualty with Tristan Gemmill (Dr. Adam Trueman) now providing some regular tweets on his twitter page. Casualty series producer, Oliver Kent, also has a twitter page.

The National Television Awards on the 20th January at the O2 Arena are being covered by ITV at the following times;

Wed 20th Jan ITV1 19:30 - 22:00 - NTAs  presented by Dermot O'Leary.

Wed 20th Jan ITV2 22:00 - 23:05 - NTAs Backstage Live presented by Sara Cox and Danny Wallace.

Thanks to Lauren for her link to a great new Ruth and Jay compilation video on youtube.

Ruth features heavily in today's new BBC Programme Info spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 23rd January, Last Roll Of The Dice.

Georgia is in the locate.tv full cast list (spoilers) for the 16th January episode of Casualty, Leave me Alone. This is the Jessica flashback episode that also features Ruth's nemesis, Sarah Evans.

The voting short lists are now out for the upcoming National Television Awards and there's some good and bad news. Casualty has made the short list for Best Drama but Georgia failed to make the short list for Best Drama Performance.

The event takes place on Wednesday 20th January @17:30 at the O2 Arena and there are still tickets available from ticketmaster. Votes for those short listed can be made online up until noon on the 20th January.

Athlete Colin Jackson's family are appearing in tonight's All Star Family Fortunes on ITV1 @ 19:15. Colin is Suzanne Packer (Tess in Casualty)'s brother so hopefully we might see Suzanne! Not quite as challenging as Tristan's Mastermind!

Ruth looked amazing again in last tonight's Casualty in her wedding outfit and with the frizzy hairdo. It was nice to see her and Jay getting along for awhile at least and very funny to see Ruth attempt to avoid Jessica's bouquet. It was a very sad ending to the episode which brought back the sadness of Ruth's suicide attempt as the same piece of music was played, Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Part.

Many thanks to all who voted for their favourite Georgia photo shoot. All the shoots were gorgeous but the overall winner with 46% of the votes was the patterned dress and black tights in the Casualty setting. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll asks which was your favourite Georgia Casualty episode of 2009.

Happy New Year and Decade to all the site visitors!

The BBC News website has an exclusive behind the scenes look at this Saturday's dramatic wedding episode, filmed at Pinewood Studios, including interviews with Gillian Kearney, Tristan Gemmill and Oliver Kent. This was first shown this morning on BBC Breakfast. Thanks to JohnT from the holby.tv forums for this information.

The youth theatre Georgia attended in Wigan, the Willpower Youth Theatre, Facebook page has a collection of photographs from previous productions. This photograph looks like it could be Georgia performing in their 1997 production of Arabian Nights? Georgia played the Sultan's wife two months before her Coronation Street debut.

The official BBC Casualty website now has a detailed description (spoilers) of this Saturday's feature length episode, A Day in the Life.

Hope everyone had a great Xmas. It was lovely to see Ruth back again tonight even though its only been 8 days! Ruth looked gorgeous at the Dean's party with Jay and is looking stunning too in the preview for next week's wedding special.

Happy Xmas for tomorrow to all the site's visitors and to Georgia as well!

Toyah's former boyfriend, Sam Kingston (The Masked Python) is making an appearance on Casualty in an episode airing on 27th February 2010 according to Scott Wright's official website. Scott played garage mechanic and part-time stripper Sam in Corrie from 2000-2002.

The BBC spoilers have been released for the Casualty episode showing on January 16th, Leave Me Alone.

The official BBC Casualty website has major spoilers (some involving Ruth) for the episode showing on January 2nd 2010, A Day In The Life. This episode now appears to be a feature length episode, 110 minutes long, containing both Parts I and Part II. Part II was originally scheduled to be shown on Sunday January 3rd.

The BBC Press Office spoilers for the episode showing on January 16th, Leave Me Alone, should be released tomorrow according to this Press Office page.

Some BBC commissioned publicity photographs of Ruth and other Casualty characters can be found on the website of photographer, Adrian Weinbrecht (under television).

The highlights video for next week's episode of Casualty, All I Want For Christmas, is now available on the BBC website.

Congratulations to Georgia on appearing in her 100th episode of Casualty tonight. The captures from tonight's episode will appear, a little later than usual, on the site tomorrow evening.

New BBC spoilers are now out for the episodes;

Sunday 3rd January - A Day In The Life Part II (1 hour special) - spoilers.
Saturday 9th January - Dark Places - spoilers.

The official BBC Casualty website now has a video spoiler featuring some of the dramatic events from Episodes 14 - 25.

According to DigiGuide, the Christmas episode of Casualty, Tidings Of Comfort And Joy, is showing on Sunday 27th December, 20:00 to 21:00. DigiGuide also has Tristan Gemmill (Adam)'s appearance on Celebrity Mastermind on New Year's Day, 20:30 to 21:00.

Some great scenes in tonight's Casualty involving Ruth's brother who seems not too bad after all. I also loved security guard Mick's (played by Thomas Morrison, Shyanne's brother in Blackpool) timid approach to meeting Ruth in person. It was also lovely to see Ruth jogging again for the first time since Series 22!

According to today's Wales Online a planning application has been made for a building housing studios and offices at Cardiff Bay’s Roath Basin.

A reminder that The History Boys film is showing tonight for only the 2nd time on terrestrial TV @23:35 on BBC2.

The official BBC Casualty website has been updated with episode titles and mini-spoilers for each of the January episodes (except 30th Jan). There is also an extra episode, A Day In The Life Part II, on Sunday 3rd January to look forward to!

Many thanks for all the votes in the previous poll, "Would you like to see Toyah return to Corrie as a different actress?". The answer was a resounding "No!". The full result can be found here.

The new poll asks which is your favourite out of the six new photo set collections that Georgia has recently produced.

The BBC spoilers are out for the first episode of Casualty of the New Year showing on 2nd January, A Day In The Life. Ruth is involved in what sounds like a very eventful episode!

Christmas has definitely arrived early with a collection of new photo shoots of Georgia in which she looks absolutely amazing! The stunning new collections, created this November, can be seen on the photoshot website (blood pressure warning!)

According to the Sky EPG, Sunetra Sarker (Zoe) and Tristan Gemmill (Adam) are both appearing on this Thursday's (3rd December) Paul O'Grady Show.

Georgia is in the cast  list for the Casualty episode showing on 12 December, No More Heroes, according to locate.tv (spoilers). This is significant as, according to imdb records that tally with my own records, it is Georgia's 100th episode! Not bad considering Georgia was originally only contracted for six months!

The BBC Casualty website video preview for next week's episode, As Others See Us, is now available!

Mark Letheren (Ben the counsellor) is returning to Casualty for an early 2010 appearance having recently filmed another episode according to his official website News page.

It turns out that arguably the 3rd most important woman in world politics, behind only Hilary Clinton and Angela Merkel, studied at the same college as Georgia. Baroness Cathy Ashton, Europe's first High Representative For Foreign Affairs, attended Up Holland Grammar school which was renamed as Winstanley College in 1977.

To mark his 75th year, the BBC is hosting a special Alan Bennett week that starts with a showing of his excellent film, The History Boys, on BBC2 on Friday 4th December @ 23:35.

Christmas appears to be a very interesting time for Ruth, to say the least, according to the spoilers released today on the BBC Programme Information website.

Saturday 19th December - All I Want For Christmas - spoilers.
Saturday 26th December - Tidings Of Comfort And Joy - spoilers.

There's also a Casualty feature article about how some of the actors spend Xmas.

The Pudsey Bear bandana signed by Casualty cast members raised an astounding £414 for Children In Need when the ebay auction ended earlier this evening.

Ruth wasn't in teddy resus last night to help save Pudsey Bear and friends for BBC Children in Need. The sketch, starring Adam, Tess, Big Mac, Noel, Jay, Pudsey and two other bears, can be seen online here.

The holby.tv awards for 2009 were announced today. Ruth was voted as "Favourite Female of Series 23" and Georgia was also chosen for the "The Best Ever Acting Performance" for the attempted suicide storyline. Ruth and Jay were also voted as the "Favourite Couple of Series 23" and their romance "Favourite Series 23 Storyline" . The full set of results can be seen on the holby.tv forums.

Thanks to everyone who voted in the previous poll, "Who will Ruth make a shocking discovery about?". Almost 50% thought that Ruth would make a shocking discovery about her brother Jonathon with Jay coming in 2nd at 25%. The full results can be seen here. Hopefully we'll find out in the next few episodes!

With Nick Tilsley soon returning to Corrie played by a new actor (Ben Price who played Nathan in Casualty), the new poll asks if you'd like to see Toyah return to Corrie as a different actress.

Brian Park, the former Coronation Street producer who first introduced the Battersby family to Corrie has been taken ill in Italy with a suspected brain aneurysm according to an article on today's Digital Spy website.

Almost to the year since they were first shown, the cable channel Watch are repeating the Series 23 Casualty episodes containing Ruth's night of passion with Jordan and its aftermath. Your Own Personal Jesus and Reality Bites can be seen on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th, at 07:00 or 11.00.

The BBC spoilers for the episode of Casualty to be shown on 12th December, No More More Heroes, are now out.

The new Cardiff filming location for Casualty might be on the site of Freeman's Cigar factory according to a report on the Wales Online website yesterday. The BBC are in talks to base its new Drama Village at the site which would also host Doctor Who, Torchwood and Merlin from 2011.

A Pudsey Bear bandana signed by Georgia and other Casualty cast members is being auctioned on ebay for this year's Children In Need appeal. The auction ends on Sunday 22nd of November.

Ruth has the starring role in the episode of Casualty to be shown on 5th December, As Others See Us, according to the latest BBC spoilers. Georgia appears in scenes during this episode with a previous screen brother, Thomas Morrison, who played Shyanne's brother Danny in Blackpool (right).

This week's Inside Soap magazine has a couple of interesting pieces of Casualty information. Laura Aitkmen who plays Dr May Phelps is interviewed and she reveals this spoiler (- May and Ruth are destined to become enemies -) regarding Ruth.

There is also a piece about next Friday's Children In Need that reveals the Casualty segment is happening between 19:30 and 20:00 when "An important person checks into Holby General, which causes a fuss with the cast of Casualty". 

Credit to JohnT from the holby.tv community for the above.

There are rumours today that Bruce Jones, Les Battersby in Corrie, might be appearing in this year's "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here". The new series starts this Sunday (15th) @21:00.

Some more lovely scenes between Ruth and Amir in tonight's Casualty and Georgia's acting was outstanding in the scene where she opened up about her abortion. Ruth is the subject of next week's preview on the BBC Casualty website, attending Amir's niece's wedding.

Ruth features in the episode of Casualty to be shown on 28th November, The Devil You Know, according to the latest BBC spoilers.

Georgia and Ruth are nominated in several categories in this year's holby.tv awards. You can vote at the awards.holby.tv site.

Georgia has the starring role in the episode of Casualty to be shown on 21st November, Second Chance, according to the latest BBC spoilers. The episode also stars one of Georgia's closest Corrie pals, Angela Lonsdale, who played WPC Emma Watts.

Georgia talks about Ruth's abortion storyline in a 2nd interview with the What's On TV website.

Ruth didn't appear in last night's Casualty but she can be seen in the video trailer for next week's episode, Every Breath You Take, on the official BBC Casualty website.

Ruth is mentioned in the BBC spoilers for the episode of Casualty to be shown on 14th November, Leave Me Standing. The episode also features a guest appearance by comedian Russ Abbot and there's a special spoiler article about his role.

The Eyecandy Models and Promotions Agency website has a portfolio of photographs of a certain relative of Ruth!

The BBC have announced the line up for this year's Children In Need appeal held on Friday 20th November and Casualty will be taking part this year!

After a week away Ruth returns in the episode of Casualty being shown on the 7th November, Every Breath You Take, according to locate.tv (spoilers). Amir also returns and could he be part of series producer Oliver Kent's Ruth related spoiler - (- "There's also a family that Ruth will get to know quite well and we'll meet them over several weeks, too." -).

Georgia is supporting the charity, Community Service Volunteer (CSV)'s Make A Difference Day, being held on 31st October 2009. Details of the campaign can be found on this local news site and on the CSV's own website.

Georgia doesn't feature in the full Casualty cast list, as published on locate.tv website (spoilers), for the Halloween night episode.

Tracy Shaw (murdered hairdresser Maxine from Corrie) appears on the front page of the holby.tv website and she's also appearing on tomorrow's This Morning show talking about her role in this Saturday's episode of Casualty.

The BBC spoilers for the episode of Casualty to be shown on 7th November, Every Breath You Take, are now available.

The BBC website has a video of next week's Casualty episode and of Ruth's fate.

This website (spoiler) might provide a big clue about the new poll perhaps?

Congratulations to Yuki who won the poll for the "Favourite New F2". Heather was a close 2nd despite not making it beyond the 2nd episode, followed by May with Lenny a distant last. The full result can been seen here. Thanks to all who voted!

The new poll concerns the identity of the person that's close to Ruth and whom Ruth makes a shocking discovery about.

The BBC Casualty website has added a photograph (left) of Sarah and Ruth taken from this Sunday's episode, Love is a Sacrifice.

The BBC spoilers for the episode of Casualty to be shown on 31st October, Regrets, are now available. This is the episode that immediately precedes The Parting of the Ways, a short "webisode" episode that focuses on the days leading up to the following Saturday's episode.

Could these two Ruth related spoilers, both from the official BBC Casualty website, be about the same person?

1) Ruth gets a shock when an unexpected patient turns up in ED. 

2) Ruth makes a shocking discovery about someone very close to her.

Today is Ruth's birthday according to the date printed on the Surgeon's Dinner invitation which falls on the same day.

Congratulations to the scriptwriters for being consistent. Two years ago Ruth received a birthday card from her father, albeit bought last minute from a hospital charity card seller, in the Series 22 episode, Inappropriate Behavior, shown on October 13th 2007.

13th October - Spoilers Galore!

The official BBC Casualty website has gone overboard today by giving the episode titles and short spoilers for every single Casualty episode up until Boxing Boy. It even gives some storyline hints for the New Year. If you want to look they can be found here.

Georgia did appear in the same frame as her one time namesake, Toyah, in last night's Casualty although they didn't have any dialogue together.

Ruth looked amazing in her silk blouse and pencil skirt combination which must have set many a patient's heart racing and Ruth can be seen out of scrubs again in next week's video preview (spoilers) on the BBC website.

Actress Tracy Shaw is appearing on This Morning on Friday 23th October to discuss her role in Casualty.

The BBC spoilers for the episode of Casualty to be shown on 24 October, "Not Wisely, But Too Well", are now out. Georgia again heads the cast list in an episode that also features Tracy Shaw, who starred with Georgia for several years as Maxine in Corrie. There's a new interview with Tracy on the What's on TV website (spoilers).

The episode originally to be shown on 17th October has been put back to Sunday 18th October due to Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying. The Guardian online has full details.

The What's on TV website has a new and exclusive interview with Georgia on Ruth's current storyline with Jay. The interview contains a big spoiler.

Georgia's dedicated flashback Casualty episode, Sex and Death, is repeated tomorrow (6th October, 7 a.m. and 11 a.m.) on the Watch channel . The episode recounts events leading up to Ruth's suicide attempt including her time in Histology with Dr Doom.

Who could fail to love Georgia after last tonight's Casualty! Warm, kind and human! There was some great comedy acting in the rehearsed scene with the traffic warden, Amir.

Next week's BBC Casualty preview video features a lot of Ruth too!

According to an article on the herald.ie website, Brenda Fricker is to return to Casualty for four episodes next year as Megan Roach.

DigiGuide has this spoiler (Ruth's worst fears are proved when she discovers she is pregnant. Sarah offers advice: trying to make it as a female surgeon leaves no room for error.) for the Comfort Zone episode of Casualty showing on 10th October.

The BBC spoilers for the episode of Casualty to be shown on 17 October, Love Is A Sacrifice, are now out. For the 3rd week running Georgia is at the top of the cast list!

Update (08/10): Now moved to Sun 18th October.

Unfortunately none of today's TV Guides or Soap Magazines contain any new Ruth spoilers, Ruth photographs or any interviews with Georgia.

Georgia wasn't part of the Casualty cast that attended last night's Inside Soap Awards bash in London. Abdul Salis (Curtis), Tony Marshall (Noel), Sam Grey (Alice), Sophia Di Martino (Polly), Sunetra Sarker (Zoe), Suzanne Packer (Tess) and Charles Dale (Big Mac) all attended.

Having lost to The Bill for Best Continuing Drama at this year's BAFTAs, Casualty again lost out to them for tonight's Inside Soap Award for Best Drama.

Even though last night's Casualty scene involving Ruth was a flashback to Episode 2 there were a couple of seconds shot from a different angle through the Resus door. As such I've done some new captures!

The What's on TV website now has its spoilers for the 3rd October episode of Casualty, Not Forgotten.

The BBC spoilers for the episode of Casualty to be shown on 10 October, Comfort Zone, are now out. Its another big week for Ruth with Georgia headlining the cast list.
 
Bizarrely Georgia appears in scenes with Toyah Willcox whom Toyah on Corrie was named after. In a interview from 2007 Georgia replied to a question if she'd ever met her famous namesake with "No! Do you think she even knows who I am?" I'm sure the two of them must have had a conversation about their connection during filming!

Casualty has been short listed for the Inside Soap Award for Best Drama alongside The Bill, Holby City and Doctors. The awards take place next Monday (28th September) at the Sketch night club in London's West End.

The cable channel Watch is currently repeating Series 22 of Casualty (Ruth's first series) at 7.a.m, one episode each weekday. They've already shown the first 13 episodes with Episode 14, Inheritance, on tomorrow morning.

The Radio Times magazine cast list for this Saturday's Casualty confirms that Georgia isn't appearing :(.

Update: Ruth does appear in flashbacks as seen in the preview video (spoilers) on the BBC Casualty website.

Ruth's scrubs seem to have turned a bluey green for this series perhaps to distinguish her from the more junior doctors. Georgia was also photographed by Casualty fans in July wearing said scrubs and back to black hair on a new Casualty Facebook page.

A small spoiler from the Sun's TV Mag's "Also This Week" - ( May sees Ruth sharing a kiss with Jay).

Jane Danson, Corrie's Leanne Battersby and one of Georgia's closest friends, is appearing on tomorrow's Loose Women show.

After a week's break Ruth returns in the starring role according to this week's BBC spoilers for the Casualty episode to be shown on the 3rd October, Not Forgotten.

Georgia isn't in the locate.tv website full cast list (spoilers) for the Casualty episode to be shown on 26th September, Sunset Syndrome.

Next week's preview shows Ruth back to her normal get up of green scrubs and trainers after the opening week's suit and stilettos.

The Ruth/Jay romance was voted the favourite Ruth storyline of Series 23 with a massive 84% of all votes. Thanks to all who voted! The new poll relates to the new F2s. 

Lovely to see Ruth return with such a great entrance! Also nice to see her out of scrubs and dressed smartly even with the Toxic Hazard sticker! I like the lighter hair too and hopefully she'll lighten up on the new F2s before long as she's a bit strict and scary at the moment.

holby.tv has a new and exclusive interview with Casualty Series Producer, Oliver Kent. In the interview he answers questions from viewers submitted via the holby.tv community boards.

There's also a new interview with Ben Turner (Jay) who talks about his character's relationship with Ruth!

The BBC spoilers for the Casualty episode to be shown on the 26th September, Sunset Syndrome, are now out.

Ahead of the new Casualty series, holby.tv, has a brand new interview with Sunetra Sarker who plays Dr Zoe Hanna.

The locate.tv website carries this spoiler - May falls foul of Ruth - about Ruth for 19th September episode of Casualty, And Then There Were Three.

Congratulations to Georgia for making the long nomination list in the NTAs Drama Performance category. Georgia is up against fellow Casualty star Micheal French (Nick Jordan) in this category. Ben Turner (Jay) is nominated for Best Newcomer, the category in which Georgia made the final four at last year's awards, and Casualty is also nominated for Best Drama. Voting can be performed online (up to 30th Sept) here, for the event that takes place at the O2 Arena on Wednesday Jan 20th 2010. Tickets are still available priced £20 from ticketmaster.

On the subject of awards, tonight sees the TV Quick/TV Choice Awards at the Dorchester Hotel. Although Casualty is not up for an award hopefully it'll have a presence like last year when Georgia and Sunetra (Zoe) presented an award.

Only a week to wait until the new series of Casualty starts. The trailer for the opening episode was shown last night after the National Lottery. Ruth looks amazing! Not sure if her hair is slightly lighter or if its just an illusion?

Jane Danson lists Georgia as her "Ultimate TV mate" in today's Daily Mirror We Love Telly magazine. Jane returns to Corrie next week after a maternity break for her 2nd child, Alfie, born the day after Georgia's birthday in February.

Ruth is mentioned in the BBC spoilers for the Casualty episode to be shown on the 19th September, And Then There Were Three. Its a bit of a shocker regarding one of the new F2s!