Georgia has given an insightful new interview with the Realising Opportunities student careers website explaining what the job of an actress is like. She talks about how to audition for roles and how she first got her part in Coronation Street. She also talks about her time filming Lewis to highlight what a typical day as an actress involves.

Its 9 years ago today since Georgia's final episode of Corrie was broadcast and Toyah said her goodbyes to Les, Janice, Roy, Hayley and Fiz and headed off to London in Spider's Juice Bar van. On that day Georgia also gave two interviews on GMTV and Lorraine and I've added 2 Higher Quality versions of these interviews; GMTV (6 mins, 95MB), Lorraine (6.5 mins, 105 MB) - right click and Save As...

Many happy returns to Ben Turner who played Ruth's partner in Casualty, nurse Jay Faldren, who is 32 today. Georgia saw Ben in his current play which ends tomorrow, Richard II at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre in London, last week. Georgia's own birthday is, of course, coming up soon.

Toyah got another mention in tonight's Coronation Street as Leanne took a taxi to stay with her and escape the ordeal of finding out about Peter's affair with Carla.

The amazon.co.uk website are now taking preorders for the Lewis Series VI DVD 2 disc set which has been given a release date of June 25th.

Its 6 years ago since Georgia had her first filming experience with a VW Camper van.

In Viva Blackpool she filmed in a car park in freezing cold January in sight of Blackpool Tower rather than on a lovely August day in Bristol in sight of Clifton Suspension bridge.

There's a photograph of the creators of the Lewis music together with Kevin Whately, for Georgia's episode of Lewis on the DNA Music Facebook page. Again this page highlights that Georgia's episode, Fearful Symmetry, is the final of the four in the series despite the imdb page saying its the second episode.

Daphne Alexander @alexdaphne (Nadia in Casualty) plays a legal intern in the political thriller film The Ghost (Writer) debuting tonight on Channel Four @21:00.

Thanks to all who voted in the poll "What did you like best about the new look Casualty?". It was a close result but the new ED exterior came out on top slightly ahead of the new doctor.

The new poll asks what you think Georgia's Lewis character's role will be?

Georgia's friend, Angela Lonsdale (the real one, not the fake one), is now actively on twitter here, @angelalonsdale. I found a lovely photograph (right) of Georgia and Angela in Dublin at the Irish TV channel TV3's third birthday celebrations in September 2001.

Kevin Whately, in a video interview with the Radio Times at their recent Covers Party, has hinted that the next series of Lewis could well be the final one making Georgia's episode significant as being the last episode ever made.

A big development on the Lewis news front! Georgia's character in Lewis, according to the Lewis Fearful Symmetry imdb page, is called Honey Addams! Georgia is also quite high in the cast too - although I think its alphabetical.

Here are a couple of new photographs of Georgia showing some leg at her first ever appearance at the National Television Awards in 1997 and at her latest appearance in 2008, the last ever at the Royal Albert Hall. These days the awards have moved from October at the Royal Albert Hall to January at the O2 Arena.

It was five years ago today that Georgia appeared as a panelist on Dancing On Ice Defrosted along with Jennie McAlpine and a very young looking James Corden.. I've uploaded a higher quality version of the show in 2x50MB mpeg parts; 

Part I  Part II (Right Click and Save As...)

According to his website, former Spandau Ballet band member turned actor, Gary Kemp, is appearing in Georgia's episode of Lewis as a character called Tom Garland. Gary was also in one of Georgia's recent Casualty episodes, Divine Intervention (July 9th 2011), although they weren't in the same scenes together.

It was five years ago today that Georgia appeared on the Paul O'Grady Show with her red hair to promote Lilies which was to be shown on BBC1 the following evening. I've uploaded a higher quality version of the interview in 3x50MB mpeg parts; 

Part I  Part II  Part III  (Right Click and Save As...)

Thanks to all who voted for their favorite Georgia episode of 2011. The winning episode was Georgia's final episode, Next Of Kin Part II with Place Of Safety 2nd and To Have And To Have Not 3rd. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll asks what you liked best about the new look Casualty.

Fearful Symmetry, Georgia's Lewis episode, now has an imdb page although there isn't much on it yet. Other guest actors confirmed as also appearing in this episode, from their agent or personal websites are, Bronson Webb (who appeared in The Bank Job as a Chicken Inn waiter), Ciarán McMenamin, Merveille Lukeba, Con O'Neill and Chloe Rose. The episode also features Garth Simpson who plays Lewis's baby grandson.

Charlotte Salt, who plays Dr Sam Nicholls in Casualty, has done a new interview with the holby.tv website. In the interview she mentions that Georgia and Ben were the life and soul of the show and that they came down to the Cardiff set to do a bit of "ADR". According to wikipedia, ADR is Additional Dialogue Recording. So some of Georgia's final Casualty dialogue could well have been spoken in Wales!

Update: From a TV magazine interview (thanks to Mark C from holby.tv forums), Charlotte on her blue boiler suit outfit;

 "All I get to wear in 'Casualty' is a blue boiler suit. But at least it means I can have a big lunch! Georgia Taylor (Ruth) told me to look at it like I get to wear my PJs all day"

Georgia has given a fascinating interview (pdf file) about the filming of her mental health Casualty storyline to the Time Together magazine. In the interview she describes the details of acting the storyline like how she'd look at corners of the room to simulate hearing voices in her head.

The first all cast photograph has been produced in the new Cardiff studio set, for this Saturday's episode of Casualty, and obviously there are a couple of omissions from the Bristol cast.

Actress Jessica Johnson who starred with Georgia in the Girls' Club did a recent interview for the North East Journal newspaper about her production company Pink Lane Productions and the article features a lovely photograph of the Girls' Club cast. The Girls' Club comedy was one of the first projects Georgia worked on after leaving Coronation Street.

Georgia has unfortunately missed out on this year's National Television Awards Best Female Drama Performance shortlist. The full lists of nominees can be found on the unrealitytv.co.uk website here.

A very Happy New Year to Georgia and to all the visitors to the site over the past year. Thanks for all the lovely comments I've received about the site in the past 12 months and thanks to Georgia for being so nice and making my year at the Comic Relief Jump the Sack!

It was very sad year with Georgia leaving Casualty after some of her best ever acting performances, and it probably won't sink in until the series resumes next week, but it will make 2012 an exciting time to see what new project Georgia will do next. Personally I'd love to see Georgia do some theatre.

Also good luck to Georgia for the upcoming announcement of the NTA Best Female Drama Performance shortlist!

The last day of the year has unearthed another gem on youtube  - the video of the CITV Awards 1997. Georgia and Jane as pantomime characters, Ulrika and Anthea, perform a sketch with Shane Ritchie and present the Most Fanciable Boy Award to Peter Andre. Georgia and Jane appear @13:53 in the Part III video.

I also have 2 HQ photos from these awards on the Georgia and Jane photo shoot page.

Thanks for all the votes in the previous poll, Will you still regularly watch Casualty after Georgia has left? A massive 72% of voters will still be watching Casualty now that Georgia has left! The full result can be seen here.

The new poll, the hundredth poll, asks what was your favourite Georgia Casualty episode of 2011?

Georgia has made third position in the Rethink charity's Heroes Of The Year 2011 list for her portrayal of Ruth's mental illness. Congratulations to Georgia for another very well deserved award!

Happy Christmas for Sunday from georgiataylor.co.uk to Georgia and to all visitors and hope you enjoy this video of Ruth's first Casualty Christmas with the Histology department!

I've posted the Georgia Christmas Quiz answers at the bottom of this page here. It was very tough so I think anyone who got 8 out of 12 must be a Georgia Genius!

The VW Camper Van Ruth and Jay drove away from Bristol in is called Rosie according to the VW Retro Rentals Facebook page. You too can hire Rosie from the VW Retro Rentals website and drive a piece of Casualty history!

A quote from the website reads, Rosie's ideal companions are "A couple looking for a charming camper for a romantic mini-break, marriage proposal or honeymoon".

Inspired by Georgia's holby.tv interview in which she's says "What's exciting about this business is you never know when you'll bump into people again on future jobs", the quiz questions below are all related to the actors and actresses Georgia has worked with in the past. See if you're a Georgia genius or not! I'll publish the answers later in the week.

1) Which actor starred with Georgia in both of her feature films?

2) Which actor played Georgia's brother, a security guard, and also has some shared history with Georgia?

3) Although never appearing in a scene with Georgia, which actress has worked in Roy's Rolls, The Rovers Return and also as a Beauvoir Lady?

4) Which actor has played Georgia's husband and also her father?

5) Which actor has Georgia appeared on Paul O'Grady's sofa and also on the psychiatrist's couch with?

6) This actor has dated Georgia's sister, has been her doctor, and has also been her fellow doctor? Who is he?

7) Which actor has played Georgia's step brother and her husband?

8) Which of Georgia's ED colleagues once had an affair with her mum?

9) Which actor played Georgia's first on screen boyfriend and later played her brother?

10) This former Rovers Return barmaid tried to murder Georgia. Who is she?

11) Which actor played a Weatherfield window cleaner and Georgia's father?

12) Which actor performed a postmortem on Georgia's husband and went on to be her ED colleague?

Georgia's friend Angela Lonsdale, Emma Watts in Corrie and who also played an overdosing patient in Casualty whom Ruth rescued from the ED toilets, has now joined twitter, @RealAngLonsdale. Angela also taught Georgia to the speak with a Geordie accent for her role in The Girls' Club.

Update 19/12/2011: It seems that this was a fake account that has now been removed :(

It was a great honour for Georgia and Ben to be given the final ever Casualty scene filmed in Bristol. It also took place on Clifton Suspension Bridge in a VW, the same bridge Charlie first drove into Casualty in his yellow Beetle in the first ever episode back in 1986.

After avoiding any spoilers all day after Sunetra's naughty white lie interview this morning I didn't know if Ruth and Jay would survive - in fact I thought they might both be goners and Georgia might die on screen for the first time in her career. It was such a relief that they got their happy ending - the traditional exit across Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge! It was the best ending possible. 

It was also lovely that Zoe mentioned Georgia's real name, Claire Jackson, in one of the early scenes as a nice tribute to all the time Georgia has spent being brilliant and working very hard on making Ruth such a special and all time great Casualty character. And now she might even return one day!

In an interview with today's Daily Mail Weekend magazine, On Set With Sunetra Sarker, Sunetra says "But the real sadness is saying goodbye to the actors whose characters are killed off in the fire." So could this be the end for Ruth and Jay?

Ruth becomes pregnant and her time at Holby comes to a dramatic conclusion.

Ruth with Andrew and Charlie.

More photos from Series 25.

David Roden's Igniting the Inferno - Blowing up Casualty video is now also available on the BBC Casualty website here. (Thanks to Kimi1996 for this link!). Ruth does feature briefly in one of the many explosions!

Georgia has thanked the fans of holby.tv in an interview for taking Ruth's character to their hearts. Its a lovely interview in which Georgia reveals, amongst lots of other things, that she'd very much like to do more theatre!
Many Thanks to Afua for the heads up on this!

Photographs from Series 25 (2010-2011).

Fortunately its definitely not Ruth trapped behind the closing vents in the preview video for this Saturday's Casualty. Unfortunately it looks like its the young girl Lily.

Ruth at the end of Series 24.

Photos from Series 24 (2009-2010). Georgia's hair gradually became lighter during the series and Ruth changed the style of her scrubs halfway through the series.

Casualty script editor David Roden has added a spectacular new video to his youtube channel showing the making of the final two Bristol episodes of Casualty and the stunts and special effects involved in the fire and explosions.

Georgia has done another new interview with the Press Association in which she reveals she'd love to do a comedy or work again with Ken Loach's son, Jim. The interview can be seen on the msn website here.

More photos from Series 23 (2008-2009).

Georgia has recently lent her support to the Children's Society young runaways charity, makerunawayssafe.org.uk. Georgia's and other supporting celebrities statements can be found on their website here.

Ruth makes doe eyes at Nick Jordan!

Each day this week day I'll be revisiting some of Ruth's moments from previous series of Casualty through the use of BBC Casualty publicity photographs. Today's photographs are from Series 22 (2007-2008).

simplytv.net has some HQ photographs from next week's thrilling episode of Casualty including two big photos of Ruth and Jay crawling through the air ventilation shafts.

Another exciting episode of Casualty tonight with lots of Ruth in her penultimate episode. The girl who played Lily looks a good little actress and it was nice to see another ex-Corrie actress, Emma Stansfield.

Ruth and Jay feature in the BBC Casualty website preview video for next week's episode of Casualty, Next Of Kin Part II - Georgia's final one. Ruth has enough time to change out of her scrubs and to argue with Jordan before they start to evacuate.

Georgia has revealed today, in an article for Press Association, that she'd love to return to Corrie as Toyah Battersby. She says in the interview;

“I suppose because it’s been so long you could kind of reinvent that character if you want. She’s meant to have been in London for the last eight years, so you could paint in a back story of anything happening in those eight years."

"I’d never say never because I do really love the show."

Not long now until the great fire of Holby which promises to be like a cross between Towering Inferno and the Poseiden Adventure! According to the last poll Ruth and Jay should be OK as 80% thought they'd both survive, with slightly more thinking Jay would die rather than Ruth.

The new poll asks if you'll still be watching Casualty after Georgia leaves?

There's more lovely lengthy interviews with Georgia and Ben in the new TV Times magazine out today. Georgia talks about how she'd love to appear in Mad Men as she's "completely obsessed by it!"

There's also another lovely interview inside What's On TV magazine in which Georgia talks about her new role in Lewis.

Georgia's final 2 episodes could be the first Casualty episodes filmed in HD. Oliver Kent, in his last interview as Casualty series producer, mentioned that Casualty would be filmed in HD just before the move to Cardiff in episodes 15 and 16. So we not only get to see Ruth in action scenes but in HD action scenes!

It doesn't seem that Georgia attended last night's Mind Media Awards ceremony or at least she isn't in any of the photos posted so far on the Mind flickr page. There is a photo of Casualty director Paul Murphy.

Another ex-Casualty person has joined twitter recently, Laura Aikman (@LauraAikman), who played Ruth's ex-mentee May.

Sam Crane (@samuelrcrane), Jim in Casualty, has tweeted today congratulating Georgia and Casualty director Paul Murphy on last night's Mind Media Awards win for Place Of Safety and saying how proud he was to be part of that storyline.

There's an amazing picture of Ruth and Jay trying to escape the ED fire in today's Inside Soap magazine together with interviews with Georgia and Ben about filming the fire storyline.

Congratulations to Georgia and Casualty for winning the Drama Award at tonight's Mind Media Awards!!! The news is on the Digital Spy website here!

Today's Guardian has an interesting article by Rebecca Front (@RebeccaFront) who is hosting tonight's Mind Media Awards and who coincidently is also a regular in Lewis. Georgia is in the same category as one of her acting heroes, Jim Broadbent from Exile.

There's not much about Ruth's storyline in this week's TV magazines (out early this week) which mainly focus on Linda's drugs storyline. However the previews for next week's magazines suggest they are going to contain sensational Ruth coverage! 

This Saturday's Casualty is Georgia's 175th episode (not including her 2 Red Button episodes). 

The Simply TV blog has a couple of photographs from Ruth's baby scan here.

Best of Luck to Georgia and to Casualty for tomorrow night's Mind Media Awards at the BFI on the Southbank where Place Of Safety is up against Holby City and Exile for the Drama award.

Ruth looked gorgeous as usual in tonight's Casualty and she also looks radiant in the BBC Casualty website preview clip for next week's episode, Next Of Kin, the first episode of Ruth's two parter finale. Hopefully she won't be glowing as well.

As well as the lovely interview Georgia gave to this week's TV Choice magazine there's also another interview with Georgia on the TV Choice website in which she talks about her decision to leave Casualty, trending on twitter, and the Casualty leaving party.

The BBC Casualty website has now uploaded the preview video for episodes 13 to 16 - the final preview video featuring Ruth :(. It looks exciting stuff! Thanks to georgiatfan for the heads up on this!

A revelation to come out of Bruce Jones new autobiography, Les Battersby And Me, was that Toyah Battersby was originally going to be called Claire Battersby! That would have been confusing since Georgia's real name is also Claire!

A couple of extracts from Bruce's book;

On the formation of the Battersbys;

The character of Toyah was originally going to be called Claire but I guess they wanted a punk kind of name for her. I remember Georgia being so worried that she wasn't going to get the part after her audition and the rest of us were trying to reassure her that she had nothing to worry about. She rang me the next day and she was so happy. She'd had a call to say that she had landed the role. It was one of those moments where 'I told you so' doesn't sound bad at all. The Battersbys were good to go!

On the abuse the Battersby family initially received from the public;

Jane and Georgia coped with a lot at that time and I'm so glad that both have gone on to achieve what they have. To play the type of characters they did, get the abuse they received, and still come out of the other side, as the lovely girls they always were at the start, isn't the easier thing to do when you're playing in to millions of people's homes every night as the horrible family.

The What's On TV spoilers are out for the episode of Casualty on the 26th November, The Ties That Bind.

Georgia's Lewis episode is called Fearful Symmetry and it looks like its the 4th episode of the 4 episode series and was filmed in October and November.

According to this article on today's What's On TV website, the new series of Lewis will be on the screen next April on ITV1.

The What's On TV website has a little interview with Georgia about Ruth's upcoming pregnancy storyline.

Georgia's time in Casualty has given her the opportunity to work closely with some of the legends of 60s/70s British Television including the likes of Ian Lavender, Stephanie Beacham and Wendy Craig. This week's episode sees Georgia working with the wonderful Susan Hampshire who is interviewed on the TV Choice website about her illustrious career and working on Casualty.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the dramatic second part conclusion to Next Of Kin showing on 10th December. I wonder if these will be the final spoilers for Ruth, and Georgia's last ever Casualty episode?

The holby.tv 2011 Awards results, the last that Georgia and Ruth Winters, can fully participate in, were announced today and Georgia and Ruth have swept the board! Georgia was first and second in the most prestigious category, the award for Casualty Best Ever Acting Performance.

Mark Letheren's Garrow's Law episode is on tonight @21:00 on BBC1. He plays James Hadfield, a man accused of trying to assassinate King George III and whose defense is insanity.

Ruth is the subject of the BBC website preview video for next week's Casualty episode, No Goodbyes!

The What's On TV spoilers for next week's episode of Casualty confirm what many suspected were the cause of Ruth's uncharacteristic symptoms!

Thanks for all the votes in the previous poll "What would you most like to see Georgia doing next?". The top vote was for "Star in a Gritty British TV Drama" with a joint 2nd of "Return as Toyah in Corrie" and "Appear in a Reality Series". The full result can be seen here.

The new poll asks what you think will happen to Ruth and Jay in the electrical fire at the ED?

There were rumours on twitter that Georgia's first role since leaving Casualty was a guest role in the new four part series of Inspector Lewis and they appear to be now confirmed from a 2nd independent source! According to wikipedia the sixth series of Lewis is scheduled for airing sometime in 2012. There's also more info on the new series in this Digital Spy article.

Ruth is once more in the BBC Casualty spoilers for the episode showing on the 3rd December, Next Of Kin Part I. Its getting dangerously close to the end now :(.

Ruth is once again in the BBC Casualty spoilers for the episode showing on the 26th November, The Ties That Bind.

It was a pleasant surprise to see lots more Ruth than expected in tonight's Casualty and in actions scenes too. The pregnancy theme in the episode does seem to be leading into what appears to be in store for Ruth according to the next episode's spoilers and Ben Turner's tweet.

Thanks to Lauren for revealing that one of Ben Turner's (@iamBenTurner) tweets today hinted at what Ruth and Jay's exit storyline might be! I think the tweet may have gone now but according to Lauren it said something along the lines of <- Ruth and Jay are raising a family. ->.

Update: 06/11/11: Ben's tweet:

"And yes I am sorry to say that Jay is leaving Holby! But he's excited to be raising a family with his one true love RW .. ; )" Thanks to Kimi for this!

Its a year this week since Georgia officially reopened the Westbury-on-Trym St Peter's Hospice charity shop. I've added another large photograph of Georgia cutting the ribbon (right).

Film4 are showing Georgia's film, The Bank Job, on Wednesday 16th November @21:00.

There's a chance to catch a very young Mark Letheren in one of his first television roles as a Spider-like conservationist in a 1994 episode of Pie In The Sky. Both Georgia and Mark have worked with the great Richard Griffiths! 

ITV3 are showing the episode this Friday, 4th November, @13:50 and 18:45. (Image from markletheren.org).

Update: 5/11/11: Mark is now filming an episode for Series 15 of  Silent Witness.

Georgia is back in the BBC Programme Information spoilers  - which could be the first hint at a possible exit scenario for Ruth - on the revamped BBC Media Centre website for the episode of Casualty showing on the 19th November, No Goodbyes.

There was no mention of Ruth in today's TV magazines in relation to this Saturday's Casualty so I'm guessing it might be a purely pushing trolleys rolling over patients type of episode.

The tvtv.co.uk website has confirmed that there is no Casualty on 12th November as it has made way for the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance.

The new 4 part series of Garrow's Law, the 18th century legal drama in which Mark Letheren debuts as James Hatfield, is returning during the week of 12th - 18th November on BBC1 according to the Telly Surfer website.

Update 31/10: Now confirmed (tvtv.co.uk) as 21:00 to 22:00 on Sun 13th Nov.

Their doesn't appear to be any episode of Casualty on 12th November, at least there are no BBC Programme Information spoilers for Casualty released today.

There's no mention of Ruth in today's bi-weekly soap magazines for the 5th November episode of Casualty. Inside Soap doesn't report the news about Ruth and Jay either.

Georgia is up for numerous awards in this year's holby.tv awards, most notably for the Ruth's sectioning storyline which was so excellently performed by Georgia. One award which Ruth must be a favourite to win in next year's awards is "Most Wanted To Return Character". Voting is open until Sunday 6th November.

Georgia is in the tvtv.co.uk cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on 5th November, Natural Selection. This is the final episode from the BBC Website Eps 1-12 preview video.

Ruth returned looking lovely as ever in tonight's Casualty. Its hard to believe and sad to think that we'll over see her for a handful more episodes though. The E.D. won't be the same without her. Vicky Binns stole the episode as far as the patients were concerned. She was excellent.

Thanks for all the votes in the previous poll "Which two Casualty characters do you think are leaving at Christmas?". Unfortunately more than 50% of voters turned out to be correct. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll asks what you'd most like to see Georgia doing next.

There's a little mention of Georgia and Ben's Casualty departure in today's Sun Buzz column and also on its online version.

Today's Digital Spy website has an article about Georgia and Ben's departures from Casualty. It quotes a Casualty spokesperson as saying;

"After four action-packed years playing Dr Ruth Winters in Casualty, Georgia Taylor has decided to leave the show.

"Georgia is a brilliant actress and we cannot thank her enough for her fantastic work portraying Ruth's numerous highs and lows. We wish her the very best for the future and, although we know our viewers are going to miss her, we don't think they'll be disappointed with the character's extremely dramatic exit later this year!"

Its now been officially confirmed that both Georgia and Ben Turner have left Casualty and will only be on screen until December. The news broke a short time ago on holby.tv news. Its sad news but the Best of Luck to Georgia and Ben in their future careers and hopefully exciting new roles.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the Casualty episode showing on the 5th November, Natural Selection.

The Crime and Crime HD channels are showing the Baker Street Bank Robbery as tomorrow's night's featured heist in Britain's Biggest Heists 2 @20:00. This is the true story of the 1971 Lloyds Bank robbery on which Georgia's film, The Bank Job, is based.

This week's TV Times magazine has this small, Ruth-related, spoiler for this Saturday's episode of Casualty <- Meanwhile, Ruth and Jay's romance is fast becoming the ED's worst-kept secret. ->

Betty Driver and the cast of Coronation Street taken in The Rovers in 1998. Georgia is in the back row with the rest of the Battersbys!

Tomorrow (17th) until midnight is the last chance to vote for Georgia in the National Television Awards Best Female Drama Performance category. Votes can be cast online from the NTA website.

Christmas Is Miles Away, the Chloe Moss coming of age play in which Georgia starred as Julie Bridges at the Royal Exchange in Manchester and the Bush Theatre in London, is returning to London for one week this November. It is the debut play for the Tremers Theatre Company (see their website for details) and is being performed at the Hen & Chickens Theatre in Islington from 8th - 12th November. Its an excellent play and well worth seeing.

Georgia isn't in the tvtv.co.uk cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty on the 29th October, Pound Of Flesh. This lack of Ruth, only one episode in five, has all the signs of something very big coming up.

Tonight's Casualty episode opening featured the best use of lycra since Ruth used to jog to work! Not sure new doctor Sam will get on very well with Ruth though.

Betty Driver, who played Betty Turpin in Coronation Street for over 40 years, has sadly passed away this morning aged 91. It seemed like Betty, who was still working behind the Rovers bar aged 90, would go on forever. Toyah worked with Betty behind the bar for over a year and on one memorable occasion they both went on strike to protest against having to wear sexy staff outfits.
 
My favourite scene between Toyah and Betty was just before Betty's 80th/retirement party when Betty had a heartfelt chat with Toyah. I've uploaded the scene here. (Right Click and Save As).

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the Casualty episode showing on the 29th October, Pound Of Flesh.

It appears that Ben Turner (nurse Jay Faldren) has left Casualty and will be one of the 2 characters only on screen until December. Last Friday the cast was announced for Richard II at the Donmar Theatre in Covent Garden, London. The play runs from December 1st 2011 to February 4th 2012.

There's no mention of Ruth in today's bi-weekly soap magazines for the 22nd October episode of Casualty. Inside Soap has an interesting interview with Charlotte Salt (@charlottesalt), new regular Major Sam Nicholls, who starts this Saturday.

After 3 weeks away Ruth finally returns to Casualty in the 22nd October episode, Sanctuary! The cast list appears on the tvtv.co.uk website here (spoilers). The episode also stars Vicky Binns (Molly in Coronation Street). Although Vicky and Georgia never appeared in Corrie at the same time they have been to a few parties together.

Thanks for all the votes in the previous poll - whether you prefer racy Ruth or reserved Ruth. Racy Ruth took almost 80% of the vote!! The full result can be seen here.

The new poll speculates who might be the two Casualty characters that could be leaving this Christmas.

Ben Turner (Nurse Jay Faldren in Casualty) has joined the ranks of twitter and his twitter identify is @iamBenTurner. Although not officially verified all the signs are that its a genuine account.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the Casualty episode showing on the 22nd October, Sanctuary.

Georgia isn't in the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on the 15th October, Mea Culpa. This will be the 3rd week in a row Ruth won't have been in Casualty which is almost unprecedented. Georgia's Corrie friend Angela Lonsdale is in this episode.

Five years ago today the World Royal Premiere of The History Boys film took place at the Odeon cinema Leicester Square. It wasn't quite as hot as today and it rained quite a bit too! To mark the occasion I've added some more HQ photographs of Georgia to the History Boys premiere page.

The official BBC Casualty website has had a makeover including a new look for Ruth's character page and a whole collection of Casualty clips from previous episodes. Thanks to georgiatfan for this information!

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the Casualty episode showing on the 15th October, Mea Culpa (Latin for My Mistake). This episode marks the first appearance of new regular Charlotte Salt (@charlottesalt), playing army medic Major Sam Nicholls, and a guest appearance from Tracie Bennett who was in Corrie at the same time as Georgia playing Sharon Gaskell.

Georgia has made this year's National Television Awards long list for Best Female Drama Performance. The full list of nominees can be seen on the Digital Spy website here. (Thanks to Rachael for the link!). Votes can be cast online on the NTA website up until Monday 17th October.

Georgia's mental heath sectioning Casualty episode, Place Of Safety, has been short listed for a Mind Media Award 2011 in the Drama category. The awards, hosted by actress Rebecca Front, are being held at the British Film Institute in London on Monday 28th November.

Ruth seems to be taking a break for awhile as Georgia isn't in the Casualty cast lists for either 1st October or 8th October episodes.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the Casualty episode showing on the 8th October, Charlie's Angels. This must be the episode featured in the youtube footage of a Casualty stunt being filmed.

Toyah got another mention in tonight's Corrie when Leanne spoke about, in connection with Carla's rape, how Toyah had been through hell at the time of her ordeal.

Only the Radio Times out of today's TV magazines has any mention of Ruth in regard to this Saturday's Casualty. It says "The other good news is that after the hints last week, Ruth and Jay are clearly very much back on".

Ruth appears in the BBC Casualty website preview video (spoilers) for next week's episode, Fixed. However Georgia doesn't seem to be in the cast list for the following week's episode, Wild Horses (1st Oct).

Thanks to all who voted in the previous poll, Which of the two new nurses raises your temperature the most? Lloyd won this poll over Scarlett. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll asks what you think of the new Ruth?

Things got very steamy in the staff room at the end of tonight's Casualty! It was like Jim and the piano all over again. Ruth's character has definitely turned much racier than she has been in the past.

Georgia has lent her support to mental health charity, Rethink. On their Facebook page she says;

"After working on a high profile show highlighting mental illness, I was astounded and touched by the number of people who approached me to share their own experiences of mental illness. It is an issue which is far reaching, affecting a huge range of people – it does not discriminate. I feel it's so important that, as a nation, we get to a place where this can be discussed freely and without shame."

Yesterday's BBC1 Wales evening news featured a report on the new Casualty set in Cardiff. Apparently they have employed the services of a female hawk to keep the seagulls away as they don't want the sound of seagulls on the Holby wards.  I managed to grab the video off iplayer before it disappears and have uploaded it here (21 MB, WMV).

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the Casualty episode showing on the 1st October, Wild Horses. This episode once again features Tina O'Brien's Chloe character.

Today's magazines have a fair amount on Jay and Ruth in connection with Saturday's Casualty including as yet unseen new publicity photos. According to The Radio Times this Saturday's episode contains the blue riband chocolate bar moment and another TV magazine mentions that Ruth and Jay kiss passionately!

holby.tv news have announced the arrival of another new Casualty cast member. Oliver Coleman has joined as new paediatric doctor, Tom Kent, whose first on screen appearance will be in the New Year.

Charlie has a dramatic storyline coming up based on the evidence in this fascinating youtube footage (spoilers) of a Casualty stunt being filmed.

Ben Turner has moved to Cardiff, the footballer of the same name that is, who has moved from Coventry to Cardiff City!

Casualty executive producer, Johnathan Young, gave an interview to the broadcastnow website this week about the show's move to Cardiff.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out for the Casualty episode showing on the 24th September, Fixed. This episode features the return of Tina O'Brien playing recovering drug addict, Chloe. There's no mention of Ruth although the last paragraph could possibly be about Ruth.

Yesterday's Coventry Telegraph website carried a photograph (right) of what looks like the ribbon (or bandage) being cut on the new Casualty set in Cardiff. There are a few cast absentees from the photograph including Georgia, Ben and Steven.

Before A Fall, Ruth's suicide attempt Casualty episode was voted by viewers as their 2nd most favourite episode in the 25 year history of the show. The poll results were announced today on the BBC Press office website. Georgia's episode, Place of Safety, also did well in 4th place. The full result was;

1) Series 18, ep 1, 2003
"End of the Line" by Ann Marie di Mambro (train crash) 18.5%

2) Series 22, ep 24, 2008
"Before a Fall" by Dana Fainaru (Ruth's attempted suicide) 14.5%

3) Series 24, ep 47, 2010
"Nice & Easy Does It" by Sasha Hails (Megan’s assisted suicide) 12.4%

4) Series 25, ep 23, 2011
"Place of Safety" by Dana Fainaru (Ruth sectioned) 11.2%

5) Series 23, ep1, 2009
"Farmead Menace" by Mark Catley (Holby race riots and Tess impaled on a building site) 10.9%

6 ) Series 21, ep 15, 2007
"Killing Me Softly" by Barbara Machin (Josh gets stabbed) 8.5%

7) Series 7, ep 24, 1993
"Boiling Point" by Peter Bowker (riot and arson in the ED) 8%

8) Series 12, ep 22, 1998
"Love Me Tender" by Tony Lindsay (Tina admits to Eve she was raped) 6.9%

9 ) Series 12, ep 17, 1998
"The Golden Hour" by Barbara Machin (motorway pile-up) 6.4%

10) Series 1, ep 15, 1986
"Closure" by Paul Unwin & Jeremy Brock (night shift goes on strike to protest about closure) 2.8%

Today's The Stage website has revealing interviews with the oldest and newest members of the Casualty cast, Derek Thompson and Madeleine Mantock.

In tonight's Corrie, Leanne mentioned to her new sister Eva that her sister was living in London.

Ben Turner (Jay) now has a favourite Casualty episode video interview on the David Roden youtube channel. Still no Georgia video though :( Also thanks to georgiatfan for pointing out there are some Ruth appearances in the tongue-in-check "How Not To End Up In Casualty" video on the BBC site.

Not only is Casualty moving but the Bush Theatre where Georgia performed her last play to date, Christmas Is Miles Away, is also moving from its current location after 40 years. There are still a few tickets available for an interactive, behind the scenes tour, this is where we got to when you came in, before the theatre closes later this month.

According to the holby.tv news page, actress Charlotte Salt (@charlottesalt) has joined Casualty playing an ambitious army medic called Sam Nicholls. Her first episode will be shown on the 8th October.

This week's TV Times magazine carries a Ruth spoiler for this Saturday's Casualty episode, after Jay leaves Lloyd on his own with a nightmare patient, <- Cue raised eyebrows from Tess and much tutting from Ruth, who both tell him off for not taking his mentoring seriously. -> 

The TV Times also has a lovely photo (right) of Derek and Sunetra cutting the Casualty 25th anniversary birthday cake.

All About Soap magazine has a spoiler for the 10th Sept episode (probably delayed by a week due to The Last Night Of The Proms) of Casualty, <- Ruth's very grateful when Jay supports her through a difficult day, and the pair then share a tender moment after an evening out. ->

The auction of Casualty memorabilia from the Bristol Studio move raised over Ł2,300 pounds for the Bristol Children's Hospital according to an article on today's BBC website.

According to the Radio Times website, Sunetra Sarker (Zoe) is appearing on this Saturday's Epic Win game show on BBC1 @5:20 - 6.00 p.m.

Tonight's Casualty was a lovely Corrie reunion for Georgia who, in scenes with Tina O'Brien and Gaynor Faye, had more dialogue than Toyah had with Sarah Platt and Judy Mallett in all the years they were in Corrie together!

Two of Georgia's Ruth centric episodes, Before A Fall and Place Of Safety, have been nominated in the 10 Best Ever Casualty episodes to coincide with the 25th anniversary celebrations. A video containing clips from the 10 nominated episodes is now available on the BBC Casualty website.

The voting page is at this link with voting closing at 10 a.m. on Friday 2nd September.

After a little absence stretching back to the 7th July, Ruth is once again in the BBC Programme Information spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on the 10th September, To Have And To Have Not.

Several of the current Casualty cast (unfortunately no Georgia as yet) have given youtube video interviews, to Casualty script editor David Roden, describing their favourite moments from 25 years of Casualty.

There's a minor Ruth spoiler in this week's TV Times magazine for this Saturday's Casualty episode, Common Vector, <- A string of people with mysteriously similar symptoms are admitted to the ED, and Dylan thinks Ruth's patient may hold the answers - but will she let him interfere? ->

Georgia features in the BBC Casualty website preview clip for next week's episode in a scene with her former Corrie colleague, Tina O'Brien. Georgia is also in cast list for the following week's episode, Memory Games, on the 3rd September.

Thanks to all who voted in the poll "Which of the new paramedics would you most like to be first treated by at the scene of an accident?" It was a close vote but the eventual winner was Tamzin.

The new poll asks which of the two new nurses raises your temperature the most?

I've uploaded yesterday evening's BBC Points West report on the Casualty move which includes interviews with Derek Thompson and Sunetra Sarker describing their sadness at leaving Bristol. The file is here [mpg, 41 MB].

Bristol West MP, Stephen Williams, has blogged about last night's Casualty leaving party held at the St Phillips studio.

With the final Casualty episode now filmed in Bristol, Casualty are auditioning off some items from the set for the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity. Among the items up for auction are Ruth's doctor scrubs together with a lovely framed signed photograph. The auction is located here on ebay and ends on the 29th August.

I don't think this means Georgia is leaving Casualty because Charlie, who isn't leaving, also has his scrubs up for auction and Mads, who has left, has a complete set of memorabilia up for auction, not just scrubs.

A Casualty representative was interviewed on the BBC Radio Bristol news today about the Cardiff move and she mentioned two characters aren't going to Cardiff as their storylines have naturally come to an end and will be on screen up to December. I've uploaded the interview, with Nikki Wilson a series producer, as a wmv file here.

Today's BBC website carries this article on Casualty's move from Bristol to Cardiff including some quotes from Cheryl who runs the holby.tv website.

The official Casualty website has uploaded the preview video (spoilers) for episodes 1-12 of the new series. It features a blue riband event between Ruth and Jay!

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out for the Casualty episode showing on the 3rd September, Memory Games. There's also a special "25 Casualty Facts" feature to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the first ever episode of Casualty called Gas, shown on 6th September 1986.

The simplytelevision website has been posting the really large Casualty publicity photographs, courtesy of bbcpictures.com. There is a really big photograph of Ruth and Jordan from this Saturday's episode on their site here. Hopefully they'll continue to post photographs throughout the new series.

A big thanks to Lauren for sharing her experience of meeting Georgia on the set of Casualty this week - the final week of Casualty filming in Bristol. Its still not confirmed if Georgia will be heading to Cardiff yet though.

This week's Soaplife magazine has this small Ruth spoiler for this Saturday's Casualty episode, <- Ruth's self esteem is bolstered by a timely compliment. ->.

Ruth features in the official BBC Casualty website preview video (spoilers) for this Saturday's episode, Starting Out. The episode sees the arrival of two new nurses, Scarlett Conway and Lloyd Asihe, played by Madeleine Mantock and Michael Obiora. The number of Casualty stars on twitter is rapidly expanding as both new actors have twitter accounts, @madeleinemgn and @michaelobiora.

Georgia is in the Radio Times cast list (spoilers) for the 3rd episode of Series 26, Common Vector, showing on 27th August. Georgia is joined in this episode by two of her former Corrie colleagues in Tina O'Brien (Sarah Platt) and Gaynor Faye (Judy Mallett).

Thanks to all who voted for their favourite Georgia episode of Casualty Series 25. The most popular episode was Hands On, the episode where Georgia pretended to be Nurse Winters. This episode even beat Georgia's signature episode, Place Of Safety into 2nd place. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll is about the new paramedics who started in last night's Series 26 opener.

It was lovely to see Ruth back in Casualty even if it was only for a few brief moments. We even saw Ruth in civvies and in the same purple top she first wore when she stayed the night with Jordan back at the beginning of Series 23! Georgia's hair was a very different colour and style back then from the lovely long blonde hair she has now returned to!

Georgia is in the BBC official Casualty website cast list (spoilers) for the 2nd episode of Series 26, Starting Out.

New Casualty paramedics, Gemma and Dhafer were interviewed on this morning's Daybreak show and the video, which includes a clip from Saturday's episode, is online here.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the third episode of  Casualty Series 26 showing on 27th August, Common Vector.

Gemma Atkinson (@gematko), who starts Casualty this week as new paramedic Tamzin Bayle, is interviewed in this week's TV Choice magazine. Within the interview she says she was a bit startruck when she met Charlie and goes on to say "And I'm a big Corrie fan too, so I'm pleased to be able to work with Georgia Taylor, although I keep wanting to call her Toyah!"

The Bristol Evening Post today revealed that next week will be the last week Casualty will be filmed in Bristol and that a farewell party is being held on Friday August 19th for cast and crew at the St Phillip's trading estate studio location.

Thanks for all who voted in the previous poll. The majority of voters thought that Bristol in normal definition will look better than Cardiff will in high definition. The full result can be seen here.

Casualty series producer Oliver Kent wasn't wrong, when he said back in August 2010, that Series 25 was going to be "a very big series" for Ruth. Ruth discovered her new husband was gay and her marriage collapsed, made enemies of her colleagues by sacking Charlie and naming Zoe Dr Death, and ended up being sectioned after trying to perform surgery in the On Call room, before Matthew Kelly and Charlie made things right by the series end. But which was your favourite episode from Series 25? The new poll is here.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the second episode of  Casualty Series 26 showing on 20th August, Starting Out.

Toyah, Spider, Emily and Roy's attempts to save the Red Rec from becoming Alf Robert's Millennium Bowl are featured as one of the storylines in tonight's final, The Corrie Years - The Changing Face Of Britain @19:30 on ITV1 and ITV HD. It would be lovely to see Georgia as one of the talking heads (fingers crossed!).

Tristian Gemmill, in an interview with this week's Inside Soap magazine, revealed that the one thing he took from the Casualty set before departing was his stethoscope that the late Simon MacCorkindale gave him after he left the series in 2008.

You can catch Georgia starring with David Morrissey tonight on BBC4 @22:00 in Viva Blackpool, the one off feature length sequel to the Blackpool series. Although the schedulers always repeat this during the hot summer months, Georgia actually filmed the exteriors in freezing cold January back in 2006.

Tristan Gemmill appeared on today's This Morning and officially announced that he has now left Casualty and this Saturday's series finale is also Adam Truman's last episode. Tristan joined at the same time as Georgia at the start of Series 22 in 2007 and his final episode will be his 169th episode (Georgia has appeared in 164 episodes to date not including her 2 Red Button episodes).

Tristan's This Morning interview is available on the ITV Player here.

Georgia is in the Radio Times cast list (spoilers) for the first episode of the new series of Casualty, Partners, showing on the 13th August. Interestingly Tristan Gemmill, Adam, isn't in the cast list fueling rumours that he may have left the show.

It wasn't Ruth after all who was the skydiving in Casualty preview clip!

According to a tweet by her agent, Georgia's ex-Corrie friend Angela Lonsdale (PC Emma Watts) is back filming an episode of Casualty this week to be shown in mid-October. Angela last appeared in an episode called Second Chance on 21st Nov 2009 when Ruth had to kick the toilet cubicle door down to rescue her character, Joy, from overdosing.

If you thought the gap between Casualty series 24 and 25 was short then it was nothing compared to this year's gap! Series 26 of Casualty starts on August 13th the week immediately following the end of Series 25 on August 6th! Like the football season, Casualty starts earlier every year!

The first BBC spoilers for the new series are here and there's also an interview with new paramedic, Omar, played by Dhafer L'Abidine.

TV Choice magazine online has a new interview with Lucy Gaskell about her decision to leave Casualty and her exit storyline.

Update: 26/07: Lucy has now given birth to a baby girl called Martha (source holby.tv)!

The Casualty fans Facebook site has some lovely new photos of Georgia with fans at the Bristol warehouse studio. Sadly, in one photo you can see a sign relating to enquiries about the soon to be vacant unit :(.

Georgia's close friend Janine Mellor, Kelsey from Casualty, appeared in tonight's 2nd Corrie episode as young mum Lyndsay Stanton at Dylan's pre school club!

It looks like we may have already have seen the last of Ruth in this series of Casualty as she isn't in the Radio Times cast list (spoilers) or the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for the series finale episode, Thank You For Today, on August 6th. All Ruth's scenes in the BBC Casualty website preview video have already been seen so, unless Georgia has a stunt double for the skydive in the preview video and Georgia only does the screaming, that's it for Ruth in this series :(.

Ten year's ago yesterday, the three Corrie Rovers barmaids at the time, Georgia, Sally Lindsay (Shelley) and Jennifer James (Geena), did a demonstration to show how to properly lift a crate of Newton and Ridley bitter for Health and Safety.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the final episode of  Casualty Series 25 showing on 6th August, Thank You For Today.

Today's Radio Times write up on this week's episode of Casualty has this little piece of storyline spoiler about Ruth -( Meanwhile, Nick Jordan has a suggestion for Ruth: "I'm talking about joining forces, forging a partnership..." -)

It doesn't seem likely that Georgia is appearing in the penultimate episode of this series of Casualty, When You're Smiling (Jul 30) as she's neither in The Radio Times cast list (spoilers) or the locate.tv cast list (spoilers) for that episode.

There's no Georgia in Casualty tomorrow but the BBC Casualty website has more information on Georgia's episode on 23 July, System Error. Ruth's first patient during her probationary period return appears to be Arthur Cobb, played by actor Kenneth Colley (left). Former bad Girls actress, Danielle Brent, also plays an relative of Arthur's, Esther Cobb.

Danielle, playing an over dosing heroin addict called Amy, was once treated by Ruth in Casualty Series 23:33, Better Drowned (25th April 2009).

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the penultimate episode of  Casualty Series 25 showing on 30th July, When You're Smiling.

Casualty has been nominated in today's Inside Soap awards in the Best Drama category against Holby City and Waterloo Road. The full list of award categories and nominees can be found on the Digital Spy website here and voting can performed online on the Inside Soap website up until Monday August 29th. Georgia's friends Jane Danson and Carley Stenson are both nominated too.

Georgia continues her recent run of intermittent appearances in Casualty as she isn't on the official BBC Casualty website cast list (spoilers) for the episode showing on 16th July, Pascal's Wager. There are only 3 more episodes after this one in the series so there's not much time left to learn to skydive (If it is Ruth in the preview clip!).

With the final episode being on August 6th this will probably be Lucy's departure episode. The episode was filmed at Holby International airport (in April at Cheltenham racecourse) so she could be departing on a jet plane.

Georgia's high school friend Lucy Gaskell who plays nurse Kirsty Clements in Casualty is leaving the show according to the holby.tv news page. Her final appearance will be in August. Lucy is also expecting a baby this month! Its a shame that Georgia and Lucy's characters never really had a storyline together although they were told off for giggling together on set!

Thanks to all who voted in the poll about Ruth's psychiatric interview blazer. Nearly 80% of voters liked the contrast in colour! The full result can be seen here.

The new poll relates to the news from series producer Oliver Kent this week that Casualty will soon be filmed in HD.

Ruth is back in the BBC Programme Information spoilers out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 23rd July. This is episode 45 out of 47 in the series.

There's lots of exciting news in Digital Spy's latest interview with Casualty series producer Oliver Kent. Oliver talks about the 25th anniversary, the impending move to Cardiff, future storylines (spoilers), the new cast who are joining and that there are one or two cast who are departing. Also Casualty will be filmed in HD from Episode 15 of the new series!

He mentions that his favorite storyline from the current series was Ruth's descent into serious illness and that his favourite episode was the one entirely set in Ruth's psychiatric ward because of the fantastic acting from Georgia, Derek and Matthew!

In an interview in today's Guardian, the BBC Wales head of strategy, Rhodri Talfan Davies, confirmed that Casualty will begin filming at Roath Lock in Cardiff Bay from September.

According to today's TV magazines Ruth features in two storyline threads in this week's Casualty. She helps Dylan with a homeless girl patient and also Charlie gets her to look after his grandchild Megan (as seen in preview video). If this wasn't enough Georgia then eagle eyed viewers can spot her in the audience of the repeated Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow from the Bristol Hippodrome at 22:50.

Once again the The Radio Times have only given a short cast list (spoilers) for the 16th July episode of Casualty, Pascal's Wager, so there's no way of telling yet if Georgia is in this episode or not.

No Ruth this evening but good news about next week! Despite not being mentioned in the original cast list, Georgia has now been added to the cast list for the 9th July Casualty and even appears in the preview video!

Toyah missed her train up from London and the next train would have meant she would have been too late for Leanne's 30th party in tonight's Corrie.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 16th July, Pascal's Wager.

According to his official website News page, Mark Letheren is currently filming the first episode in the 3rd series of the BBC 18th century legal drama Garrow's Law in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Georgia unfortunately didn't make the final four in the shortlist for this year's TV Choice Best Actress award. The four actresses shortlisted were Amanda Burton, Karen Gillan, Vicky McClure and the late Elisabeth Sladen. Casualty did make the short list for Best Family Drama against Doctor Who, Merlin and Waterloo Road. Voting on the shortlists can be made online, up until 8th July, on the TV Choice website here.

Thanks to all who voted in the previous poll "Do you think its Ruth jumping out of the plane in the Casualty preview video?" It was very close with the No vote slightly edging ahead toward the end with 55% to 45%. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll is about Ruth's smart blazer she wore to her psychiatric assessment interview in this week's Casualty.

Toyah made an appearance in tonight's Corrie - well in a few photographs on Leanne and Peter's fridge - and Leanne mentioned that Toyah is now 29 after Stella asked about her. I've uploaded a video of the moment which is possibly Toyah's biggest appearance since leaving Corrie eight and a half years ago.

It was great to see lots of Ruth again in last night's episode! This episode was filmed during the week of her appearance on the Graham Norton Show radio show (right) back on the 12th March. Unfortunately it appears Ruth is away once more as she's not in next week's episode and, according to the Radio Times spoilers, there are only five characters in the following week show on 9th July.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 9th July, Divine Intervention.

Georgia isn't in the Radio Times cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on the 2nd July, Rogue. This is the episode starring Georgia's former Corrie colleague, Denise Welch.

Hasina Haque who plays nurse Mads in Casualty has now joined the mass ranks of twitter and can be followed @HasinaHaque.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 2nd July, Rogue. This is the episode that stars Denise Welch who, as Natalie Barnes, played Toyah's boss in The Rovers on Corrie. Georgia also appeared with Denise on Loose Women a couple of months before starting on Casualty in March 2007.

Matthew Kelly is back as psychologist Andrew Brookfield in the Radio Times cast list (spoilers) for the Casualty episode, Keep On Running Part II, showing on the 25th June. This ties in with the 3.5 month transmission delay from when Georgia mentioned that Matthew was back, during the week of her Graham Norton radio interview on 12th March.

Today is the final chance to vote in this year's TV Choice Awards 2011 in which Georgia is up for the Best Actress title.

For the first time since the 31st March, Ruth appears in the BBC Programme Information Casualty spoilers for the episode showing on the 25th June, Keep On Running Part II.

Thanks to all who voted in the previous poll, "Is it time Georgia moved on from Casualty in order to advance her career?" Only 15% thought it was time for Georgia to move on! The full result can be seen here.

The new poll concerns the latest Casualty preview video.

The final preview video for this series of Casualty is now up on the official BBC website. It features scenes from Episodes 39-47 although there are also some scenes from last week's Episode 38. 

Georgia is in the Radio Times cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on 18th June, Keep On Running - Part One (a different title to that given in the BBC spoilers, The Girl Who Played With Trains).

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 18th June, The Girl Who Played With Trains. This appears likely to be the episode filmed at Nene Valley Railway at the start of March and is featured in this Peterborough Evening Telegraph article.

Toyah's former boyfriend, college lecturer John Arnley, made yet another appearance as DC Redfearn in tonight's Corrie. This time he was investigating John Stape's disappearance. You would have thought Fiz would have remembered him staying over with Toyah in the salon flat they once shared together!

Georgia isn't in the Radio Times cast list (spoilers) for the episode of Casualty showing on the 11th June.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 11th June, One Good Day.

Commiserations to Casualty who lost out to Eastenders in tonight's BAFTA for Continuing Drama. There was no sign of Georgia on the Casualty table - only Tristan Gemmill, Suzanne Packer and Oliver Kent appeared to be there, but Ruth did have a speaking role in the featured clip showing Megan's death. Georgia can at least console herself with her home town team Wigan staying in the Premier League!

Georgia is in the Radio Times cast list (spoilers) for the episode showing on 4th June, The Gift Of Life.

Its great to see Ruth back in the department again and she's looking better than ever. She seems to have fully recovered too and even made a joke about her operation in the on call room. Ruth had a fortunate escape though arriving to work with the same taxi driver as the one who attacked Mads later in the day.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 4th June, The Gift Of Life and there's an interview with new nurse Linda, played by actress Christine Tremarco, who appeared as the same character in two episodes last year.

Georgia has been nominated for this year's TV Choice Best Actress! She faces tough competition notably from her friend Joanne Froggatt nominated for her performance in Downton Abbey. Ben Turner has also been nominated for Best Actor and Casualty is up for Best Family Drama. Votes can be made online on the TV Choice website up until Friday 10th June.

Former Hollyoaks star and jungle favourite, Gemma Atkinson is joining Casualty as new paramedic Tamzin. She is joining with another new paramedic, Omar, played by Dhafer L'Abidine and they both start filming this month in Bristol for the start of the new series in September. Thanks to Rachael for this info!

Georgia is in the Radio Times cast list (spoilers) for the Spring Bank Holiday weekend episode of Casualty, When The Bough Breaks, on Sat 28th May.

Ruth is coming back to work and her return to the E.D. is the featured storyline in the BBC Casualty website's preview video for next Saturday's episode!

Its that time of year again and the British Soap Awards are being held tonight in Manchester and are broadcast next Wednesday on ITV1. Good luck to Jane Danson who is up for Most Dramatic Performance. Georgia won the exact same award 10 years ago for her performances during Toyah's rape storyline and I've uploaded the video of her receiving the award and her winner's speech here. (Right Click and "Save As" - 29 MB)

Update: Well done Jane for winning!

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 28th May, When The Bough Breaks.

After a 3 episode break, Ruth returns in the next episode of Casualty! Georgia is in the Radio Times cast list for the episode, A Quiet Life, showing a week on Saturday (21st May) due to next weekend's Eurovision Song Contest. Perhaps she'll even go out for a drink with Mads!

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 21st May, A Quiet Life.

According to rumours Leanne in Corrie is to get a new half sister!

The Bank Job film has been chosen as the Film of the Day by film critic Andrew Collins in this week's Radio Times. The Bank Job is on Channel Four this evening at 21:00. Interestingly another current Casualty doctor, William Beck (Dylan) was in another Jason Statham heist movie last night on Sky Movies, Snatch.

Tina O'Brien, who played Sarah Platt on Corrie, has tweeted this morning that she's starting work on Casualty today.

There is no Casualty episode on Saturday 14th May due to the Eurovision Song Contest. So this will make it the 4th Saturday in succession that there's been no Ruth on television and at least a 5 week gap between Ruth episodes. Gaps between series are often shorter than that.

The holby.tv website has a nice interview with Sophia Di Martino, whose character Polly leaves Casualty this week. Sophia's first episode of Casualty as Polly was in March 2009.

Thanks to all who gave their verdict on the 2nd of Ruth's Casualty Red Button episodes. Over half who voted loved the episode. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll, in the light of Georgia failing to get a BAFTA nomination, asks if its time Georgia moved on from Casualty in order to advance her career?

Georgia didn't make the 4 nominees in today's BAFTA nominations for Best Actress. Its a real travesty as her performance in the Place Of Safety episode was more than worthy of winning the award. Casualty has, however, been nominated again in the Continuing Drama category alongside Waterloo Road, Coronation Street and Eastenders.

Happy Easter to Georgia and all the site visitors!

Cheltenham racecourse wasn't a racecourse after all but was transformed into Holby International Airport where a dramatic episode is being filmed where "a lot of people come and go" according to an article on today's thisIsGloucestershire website. The episode is due to be shown on August 6th.

Jill Conway, the Casualty makeup and prosthetics designer for the past 15 years, has produced a behind the scenes video showing the process of  making up the actors and how she watches each scene for continuity on a large monitor. Jill can be seen making up Georgia whilst Georgia is also having a hair roller applied, but she's far more attractive than Hilda Ogden ever was!

There are several twitter messages relating to Casualty filming scenes at Cheltenham racecourse this week and Georgia was also spotted in Cheltenham a couple of weeks ago. Given that Casualty films 3-4 months ahead could this be an end of series finale with a more successful VIP trip to the races than the previous trip Ruth tried to organise? The contrast in Ruth's popularity with the staff would make a nice end to the series.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 7th May and there's a major spoiler regarding Polly.

It was great to see Ruth back in the E.D. in tonight's Casualty! Even though it was only in an unofficial capacity it seemed like she'd never been away.

Georgia's second film, the 1970's heist The Bank Job, gets its first terrestrial TV showing on Sunday 1st May on Channel Four and Channel Four HD from 21:00 to 2310.

Toyah's Corrie rape storyline makes No.7 in a list of the Top Ten Most Controversial Soap Storylines published today on the yahoo site. The year is slightly out though as the storyline took place in 2001 and not 2007 as stated. Thanks to georgiatfan for this link.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 30th April, Momentum.

To coincide with the 10th anniversary of Georgia's most dramatic and award winning Corrie storyline, each day this week there will be a new video leading up to the night of Toyah's attack and its aftermath. The first video sees Toyah trying to make peace with Phil Simmonds.

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on Easter Saturday 23rd April, Before The Fall.

The distinctive Cafe where Sarah took Ruth for tea and cake in last night's Casualty is located at the top of the Christmas Steps in the centre of Bristol.

Thanks to all who voted in the previous poll. You voted the Casualty episode where Ruth escaped from the psychiatric unit as your favourite Georgia part of Georgia super week. The full result can be seen seen here.

The new poll asks what you thought of the 2nd Red Button Casualty episode.

Another brilliant episode of Casualty again and there was a very clever use of flashback to make it appear that Ruth might have cut herself. The scenes with Ruth and the jogging shoes and running with Charlie were really lovely and Ruth appears to have turned a big corner in her recovery. There was also a nice scene with Sarah Evans outside the Cafe whilst it was snowing!

The BBC Casualty website has a new behind the scenes interview with Georgia in which she reveals some intriguing details about tomorrow's 2nd Red Button episode.

There are also some new behind the scenes photos here.

Ruth is back in the BBC Programme Information spoilers out today for the episode of Casualty showing on the 16th April, A Real Shame.

Georgia is very professional but she has admitted that she does corpse a lot on set (i.e. has the giggles during shooting). Here is a clip (right click and "Save As") from Casualty Series 23 of Georgia almost losing it that got through the edits and appeared on screen.

There was no Ruth this evening but Ruth is the main focus of the BBC Casualty website preview video for next week's episode!

There's no Ruth in tonight's Casualty as this is the episode Graham Norton mentioned he had watched in preparation for his interview with Georgia only to find that Ruth didn't appear!

After 14 years on the Street, Toyah's mum, Janice Battersby makes her final appearance in tonight's Corrie. The itv.com website has a excellent tribute video containing Janice's best bits including several memorable moments with Toyah. Who knows perhaps Vicky Entwistle will turn up as one of Ruth's patients before too long?!

The BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on 9th April, Starting Over.

Casualty star Ben Turner (Jay Faldren) is appearing on tomorrow's The Wright Stuff on Channel Five between 9:15 a.m. and 11:05 a.m. Many thanks to Kirsty on the holby.tv forums for this information!

Today's Guardian has quoted from a National Audit Office report that the BBC has spent 20% per cent less on their 6 TV Soaps in the past eight years. Interesting Casualty details from the report (pdf) are;

• The Casualty budget was reduced from 22.8m in 2009-10 to 21.8m in 2010-11.
• Casualty is the most expensive soap to produce at over 9 pence per viewer per hour compared to the cheapest, Eastenders, which costs less then 4 pence per viewer per hour.
• Casualty savings have been made by reducing the number of regular cast from 18 in 2007-08 to 16 in 2009-2010 and by reducing the number of stunts.
• 5.2 million pounds was budgeted for talent in 2010-11 which includes fees paid to regular cast members, semi-regular cast members, extras and other cast-related costs such as stunt artists, stunt arrangers and chaperones.

William Beck who plays new Casualty doctor, Dylan Keogh, in an interview with holby.tv mentioned that he "already knew Georgia (Taylor) and Jane (Hazlegrove) from my own dark past- their secrets are safe with me- and that helped a good deal.". William played a regular character (army pathologist Sgt. Maj. Steve Forney) on the Red Cap series when Georgia made her guest appearance as pregnant army widow, Tricia Stebbings. The series was filmed in Germany in the summer of 2003.

The Royal Television Society website has some photographs of Casualty's winning night at the West Of England Awards held at the Cinema de Luxe in Bristol two weeks ago. No Georgia unfortunately but there are some lovely ones of Derek Thompson rightly receiving the award for 25 years of Casualty.

The new BBC Programme Information spoilers are out today for the 2nd April episode of Casualty, Just Because You're Paranoid, and they reveal the return of Sarah Evans (Julia St John). Ruth's former surgical mentor hasn't been seen since Series 24 Ep. 23 (Jan 30th 2010) when she was admitted as an E.D. patient.

There are also details of the 2nd of the two Red Buttons episodes during which Ruth meets an alternative therapist called Carl, played by Adam Robertson. Another man with a beard!

It doesn't appear that Georgia attended last night's RTS Awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Casualty was represented by Sunetra Sarker (Zoe) and Suzanne Packer (Tess). Coincidently the same pairing attended last year's BAFTAs when Casualty also lost out to Eastenders!

Best of luck to Casualty in tonight's Royal Television Society Awards where they've been nominated in the Soap and Continuing Drama category. They only have to see off two other nominees, Eastenders and Coronation Street!

Update: It appears that Eastenders have won :(

Thanks to all who voted in the Bristol Comic Relief Sack Race poll. Unfortunately Josie Gibson had tonsillitis so didn't make the start line and it was a tie between Georgia and Tony Bullimore.

The new poll asks, in this packed week of features for Georgia fans, which was your favourite?

Georgia was amazing again in tonight's Casualty. It was a heart warming scene in the Wendy House with Charlie and Georgia looked stunning when trying on dresses in the shop. That made a much better scene than a scene buying fridges would have been. The Red Button episode was very good too in a Talking Heads kind a way.

The Graham Norton website has a couple of lovely photos of Georgia from today's show, here and here!

Georgia was so nice on this morning's Graham Norton Radio 2 show interview and she's got a really lovely laugh! In addition to Casualty, Georgia talked about her early days of acting at the Willpower Youth Theatre in Wigan and her clubbing days in Valentinos in Hanley, Stoke (where she met her ex Mark)! Georgia chose the Charlatan's A Man Needs To Be Told as her record choice. The webcam only showed a few shots of Georgia from the back but she looked to be wearing a lovely summery top.

The BBC Casualty website has a new behind the scenes video of the filming of the upcoming Red Button specials (12th March/2nd April). Georgia gives some really funny insights into the filming and how she's really pleased, after 4 months on location, to have her own dressing room back and doesn't have to wee on a honeywagon!

Casualty is to be given a special award at tonight's Royal Television Society West of England Awards in honour of its 25th anniversary. Casualty is also up for the Soap And Continuing Drama award at the national ceremony being held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on March 15th.

The BBC Programme Information Casualty spoilers are out for the episode showing on 26th March, Secrets And Lies.

Not long until Georgia's appearance on this Saturday's Graham Norton radio show. You can see Georgia's previous appearance with Graham on So Graham Norton, as a 19yr old way back in January 2000 when she appeared with Martin Hancock (Spider in Corrie), for free on the seesaw website. Georgia presented Graham with a home-made doggy phone cake!

Georgia is being interviewed on the Graham Norton radio show next Saturday! The show is broadcast on Radio 2 between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Georgia should be visible too on the Radio 2 webcam and you can also email questions for Georgia to graham.norton@bbc.co.uk.

The official BBC Casualty website now has the new preview video for Episodes 26-38 of Casualty and Ruth appears to be back in scrubs complete with stethoscope! Is that Ruth on the drainpipe?
 (Update 05/03: Its not Ruth but Nita!)

The What's On TV website has new Ruth related spoilers for the 12th March episode of Casualty.

There is no Casualty on 19th March due to the conclusion of The Six Nations Rugby tournament. This also happened on the same weekend in 2010.

The first of Ruth's Red Button Casualty episodes will be available on 12th March according to details (scroll to bottom of page) on the official Casualty website revealed today. The 2nd episode will be some time in April. Credit to Katie on the holby.tv forums for spotting this.

A very short spoiler for the 12th March Casualty episode, in this week's Soaplife magazine, <- Ruth relapses. ->.

There's some good and bad news in today's nominations for the Royal Television Society Awards 2011. Casualty has been nominated against Eastenders and Coronation Street in the Soap and Continuing Drama category. However its a travesty that Georgia isn't nominated in the Actress category. The ceremony, hosted by comedian Dara O'Briain, is being held on March 15th at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

Toyah was mentioned yet in again in tonight's Corrie when Janice told Carla she needed the overtime to visit Toyah and Carla said there'd be no money to visit 'Toyahland' without a new order.

Best of luck to the Casualty people nominated for Best Live Action Short for Wish 143 at tonight's Oscars. Casualty director, Iain Barnes is the director and the producer is ex-Casualty production manager, Samantha Waite. Samantha is interviewed in today's Sunday Express in a diary feature called From Holby To Hollywood.

Update: 28/02: Unfortunately Wish 143 lost out to God Of Love.

A very Happy Birthday to Georgia who celebrates her birthday today!

After a couple of weeks away Ruth returns in the episode of Casualty showing on 12th March, Only Human according to today's BBC spoilers. There's also an interview with Ruth's replacement in the E.D, Dr Dylan Keogh played by William Beck.

The CafeDirect twitter has even more photos of Georgia from yesterday including one of Georgia in action during the mum's race. The CafeDirect Facebook page has lots more photos too and there's a blog of the day on the CafeDirect website.

It was nice to see Ruth return tonight and she does seem to be on the mend. She also looked lovely when trying to impress Jay, coincidently in the same pink top and blue cardigan combination she once wore to impress Nick Jordan at the start of Series 23!

Leanne didn't get the 15:55 train to Euston to live with Toyah in London after all in last night's Corrie episodes.

Thanks to everyone who voted for their favourite Place Of Safety scene. The winning scene, with nearly half the votes,  was the one where Ruth asks Charlie for help after watching her sectioning CCTV. The 2nd favourite was the scene where Ruth asks for Tess's help on the phone. The full result can be seen here.

The new poll asks who you think will win the Bristol Sack Race on Tuesday!

Georgia, along with BB's Josie Gibson and yachtsman Tony Bullimore, are entering a sack race in aid of Comic Relief at Brunel's Old Station in Bristol next Tuesday 22nd of February between 2-5 pm. The event is being sponsored by CafeDirect and the sacks are original coffee bean sacks from Kenya.

According to tonight's Corrie Toyah is still living in London as Leanne mentioned that she was thinking of going to live with her there.

Ruth isn't mentioned in today's BBC Programme Information spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on 5th March, Less Than Zero. 

I've added a new video of the end section from The Paul O'Grady Show from March 2008 - amazingly nearly 3 years ago. Its the part where Matthew Kelly and Georgia answer viewer's emails and Georgia answers an interesting one on mental health. Right click here and Save As (23MB).

The lovely Jane Danson was on today's Lorriane show talking about the Nick, Leanne and Peter, Corrie storyline. The video of her interview can be seen on the Lorraine website here.

Both Casualty and Holby now have a new executive producer according to the Digital Spy website. Talkback Thames's head of drama, Johnathan Young has taken over the role from Belinda Campbell. Belinda started on Casualty around the same time as Georgia in 2007.

Toyah phoned Leanne in tonight's Corrie to apologise, presumably about not being able to come to her blessing with Peter. Leanne said it was OK and said "big kisses" to her. In the eight years since Toyah left Corrie I think its the first time she's called!

Ruth isn't mentioned in today's BBC Programme Information spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on 26th February, Boys Will Be Boys. This is of course Georgia's birthday! There's also a feature on Casualty's links with the Oscars on the BBC site.

Although Ruth isn't in the cast list for this Saturday's Casualty she is back on the 19th February episode, 'Til Death Do Us Part, according to the Radio Times cast list (spoilers). As this is Episode 25 we should see the final Ruth scenes from the Eps. 13 to 25 preview video, the ones of Ruth walking into the E.D. in her bare feet.

Casualty pulled in 6.1 million viewers on Saturday night which is a very respectable figure and higher than its been for a long time. This was exactly the same amount of viewers that later watched Match of the Day - probably the best ever Casualty and the best ever Match of the Day on the same night! Source: Mediatel.

Thanks to all who voted in the previous poll, What happens at the night club?. It seems along time ago now after recent events but the result can be seen here.

The new poll asks what was your favourite scene from last night's Casualty episode, Place Of Safety.

Many thanks to Lauren for sending a picture (left) of Georgia trending on twitter this evening. Lots of people have been praising Georgia's acting on there tonight and saying that she should be nominated for an award.

Georgia was absolutely remarkable in tonight's episode of Casualty. I think it must be the finest performance of her career to date and all the talent, effort and hard work she put in over the past months really paid off in style. Georgia must be put up for a BAFTA this year otherwise the awards have no meaning. Well done to Matthew Kelly who was immense as well.

I'll take some time do the captures this week as Georgia was in every scene!

The Digital Spy website has some behind the scenes photographs of Matthew Kelly filming with Georgia for tonight episode of Casualty.

According to the mirror.co.uk website Georgia has a new interview in tomorrow's We Love Telly Daily Mirror television magazine!

Matthew Kelly, appearing on today's Lorraine show, called Georgia a wonderful and extraordinary actress. He also described how Georgia can cry on cue and that she's an absolutely genuine person! As well as this Saturday's Casualty episode Matthew is also appearing in one of the upcoming Red Button episodes. I've uploaded the Casualty part of the interview here [Right Click, "Save As" - 29M].

Tristan Gemmill (Adam Truman) has just tweeted that Georgia is amazing in this Saturday's Casualty. Thanks to Lauren for pointing out this tweet!

Matthew Kelly's appearance on tomorrow's Daybreak seems to have moved to the Lorraine show so I don't know if he's on both shows or just Lorraine.

No Ruth again in the BBC spoilers out today for the Casualty episode showing on 19th February, Til Death Do Us Part.

There's a new enlargeable photograph of Ruth with Andrew Brookfield on the BBC Casualty website Next On page (spoilers). The video preview is also available here. Thanks to georgiatfan for this information.

In a very interesting article in this week's Radio Times mental health charities Mind and SANE have both praised Ruth's breakdown storyline and in particular the way continuing dramas are uniquely placed to cover the long term onset and recovery processes.

Georgia mentions in an interview with this week's Inside Soap magazine how Derek Thompson (Charlie) and herself spent 3 months filming Ruth's recovery storyline in a separate location away from the Casualty studio. "It feels like we've been off doing our own little film", Georgia revealed.

The actress who plays Mary, Phillipa Peak, in Ruth's flashback scenes during this Saturday's episode was once in Casualty before back in January 2008. She died in a road traffic accident following a fall from a bridge by a graffiti artist whom Ruth later treated.

The actor who plays the fellow patient Jim, Sam Crane, whom Ruth becomes romantically involved with, won the Nicholas Hytner award for best actor in his year at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

The What's On TV website now has its spoilers for next week's dramatic Ruth orientated Casualty special.

Matthew Kelly is chatting about his role in Casualty on ITV1's Daybreak next Friday, 4th February.

Congratulations to Casualty director Ian Barnes, who this week was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Live Action Short for his film Wish 143. Ian, seen here with Georgia and Sunetra at the 2009 BAFTAs is quoted as saying, "I'm just trying to concentrate on my next episode of Casualty and trying not to think about Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson!"

The BBC spoilers are out today for the episode of Casualty showing on the 12 February, Duty Of Care. These are the first spoilers since 23rd September in which Ruth hasn't been mentioned.

I managed to dig out and upload a previous scene of Georgia's where she played a mentally unstable patient who is restrained by staff. The scene is from The Royal in 2004 where Georgia plays an anorexic young girl called Ellen Godber who gets caught hiding her hospital food. To view right click and "Save As" on this link (9.6MB).

There's no sign of Toyah at her sister Leanne's wedding in photos revealed today by The Daily Mail. Jane Danson looks really lovely in her wedding dress though.

Its a little late but here is the link to the BBC Programme Information Casualty spoilers for the episode showing on the 5th February, Place Of Safety. This is the episode where Ruth is treated by psychiatric consultant Andrew Brookfield, played by Matthew Kelly.

In last Monday's Coronation Street Janice announced to Leanne that Toyah had invited her to stay with her in Amsterdam. Unfortunately in Thursday's episode Toyah had the flu and had to renege her offer.

Swuzzie has made a very creative video of last week's night club episode of Casualty, to the music of Hey Baby (Drop It to the Floor), and uploaded it to youtube. Its well worth a watch and can be found here.

Georgia has always been a brilliant actress but she took things to a new level in tonight's Casualty particularly during the final scene when she was led away by the police. This scene was reminiscent of Denise Williams being led away for questioning in Life On Mars but on a much more intense scale and the past two episodes have been far removed from anything she's ever done before. Hopefully a BAFTA for Best Actress could be a real possibility this year.

According to this week's TV Times magazine, Ruth and Charlie will be the subject of 2 special mental health episodes of Casualty to be shown on the Red Button in March. Also there is a big interview with Georgia and Lucy Gaskell too but I can't scan this until the weekend as I'm not the country and this explains why there is no video from last Saturday's episode yet :(

Georgia has done a really revealing interview with TV Choice magazine online in which she reveals what it was like playing a bipolar patient and the recovery process which will take Ruth 3 months.

According to a post on the holby.tv forum, Georgia is on the cover of next week's The Weekly News and will be interviewed inside. The paper, although Scottish, is available nationally so its worth keeping an eye out for it in the shops when it comes out, either on Wednesday or Thursday.

Georgia's performance was absolutely immense in last night's Casualty in some of the most dramatic scenes she's ever done. The scene where Ruth was explaining her efforts at improving the E.D. to Barry was brilliantly acted and very moving.

The flashbacks were really cleverly put together with the merging of Ruth's notes with scenes from the nightclub. There was a little continuity error where Ruth was wearing shoes on the dance floor and then boots in the night club corridor. 

Update: 17/01. There wasn't a continuity error - It was another girl walking across the dance floor.

The What's On TV spoilers for next week's episode of Casualty, Choose Your Illusion, provide more details of Ruth's deteriorating behavior.

Today's Daily Mirror reports that Matthew Kelly's psychiatrist character in Casualty is called Andrew Brookfield and that his performance was so impressive that he's been signed up for more episodes.

Ruth features in some very sad new BBC Programme Information spoilers for the episode of Casualty showing on 29th January, A Lion Roars, although its not made clear if Georgia appears in the episode or not.

Today's Sun online TV Biz gives a brief mention to Matthew Kelly's upcoming role in Casualty. It states that he plays a psychiatrist and that his role airs in the spring. Given that he appears in the Episodes 13-25 preview video and we're almost at Episode 20 it must be very early spring!

The BBC Casualty website has now uploaded a new still of Georgia from this Saturday on its episode preview page. (Thanks georgiatfan!)

Thanks to all who voted for their favourite Georgia Casualty episode of 2010. The most popular episode was Hands On where Ruth pretends to be Staff Nurse Summers to try and fool Jay's nan. Second was A Day In The Life Of - Part I (Adam and Jessica's wedding/Ruth agrees to Jay moving in) and third was The Enemy Within (Ruth runs out into the rain after discovering Edward's homosexual affair). The full results are here.

The new poll asks what you think happens in next Saturday's dramatic episode.

Ruth looked really nice at the end of tonight's episode but its not looking good for her in next week's episode. The BBC Casualty website now has the preview video and I think Ruth should have gone to the pub with Tess and Zoe.

The What's On TV website has uploaded its spoilers for Ruth's dramatic Casualty episode on 15th January, Altered States.

Ruth once again has a starring role in the new BBC spoilers out today for the episode of Casualty showing on the 22nd January, Choose Your Illusion.

This Saturday's Casualty is significant in that its both Georgia's and Tristan's 150th episode! They began their Casualty careers at the beginning of Series 22 and appeared in their first scene together (opposite) in an episode called Meltdown on September 15th 2007.

I've uploaded a video (right click and Save Link As) of their first scene.

One of Georgia's favourite actors, Pete Postlethwaite, sadly died yesterday. In The Name Of The Father is one of Georgia's favourite films and Georgia was once star struck when she met him in a pub but managed to pluck up the courage to tell him how great he was.

Unfortunately neither Georgia or Casualty made the shortlists for Drama Performance and Drama National Television Awards announced today. In late September and early October when the voting took place Georgia wasn't involved in a big Casualty storyline so hopefully, when the BAFTAs arrive later in the year, she'll get the recognition her recent performances have deserved.

There were some lovely scenes between Georgia and Wendy Craig in tonight's episode who at her Bufferflies best. Poor Ruth seems to be living in the On Call room when she should be taking Edward for every penny he's got.

                                                                         

Both Georgia and Jane Danson featured in last night's Almost Famous 4 on BBC3. Jane was shown in a cricket related children's programme called Sloggers from 1994 and Georgia was shown with Duncan Bannatyne in a scene from the 2003 Girls' Club. 

BBC3 are repeating the programme nearly every day this week.

Happy 2011 to everyone! A big year lies ahead with the move to Cardiff. Hope its a very happy one for Georgia whatever she decides to do!