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Hospital soap Holby City will come to an end next year after 23 years on screen, the BBC has announced.

The drama, created by Tony McHale and Mal Young, debuted in 1999, following the lives of staff at the fictional Holby City Hospital, the same hospital as Casualty. A statement from the broadcaster said: “We are incredibly proud of Holby City but it’s with great sadness that we are announcing that after 23 years, the show will end on screen in March of next year. “We sometimes have to make difficult decisions to make room for new opportunities and as part of the BBC’s commitment to make more programmes across the UK, we have taken the difficult decision to bring the show to a clo...

Southend actor Lee Mead said the news Holby City will end next year came as a "real shock".

Holby City is yet another casualty of the BBC’s obsession with ‘youth’ It may not be a critics' darling, but the decades-old drama is exactly what many licence fee payers crave. Why not axe The One Show instead? Amy Lennox in Holby City Credit: BBC In metropolitan media circles, the decision to end BBC medical drama Holby City is unlikely to prompt many tears. It is rarely reviewed in the broadsheets; its cultural importance is never discussed on Radio 4 and, to my knowledge, it doesn’t prompt fevered discussions online. But if blinkered hacks like me were to set foot outside the M25,...