BBC One has announced that Casualty will celebrate the end of its 30th Anniversary season with a first for the show.

The long-running medical drama’s current season finale will be filmed all in one take on a single camera.

Written by original Casualty co-creator Paul Unwin, ‘One Shot’ will air on BBC One this Summer and covers an hour in the famous Emergency Department.

The episode will feature all of the cast’s regulars, with a story focusing on Duffy mentoring two teenage girls, Chloe and Diamond, who are being shown around the department for work experience.

‘One Shot’ will use a cable free mobile camera to cover the action, with a number of rooms in the Casualty Ambulance Station converted into control rooms for the crew in order to enable 360 degree shots.

The sound will be recorded with 40 hidden radio microphones and 5 boom operators, all disguised as part of the set.

Cathy Shipton, who plays Duffy, commented: “It is so exciting and nerve-wracking to be working on this episode and unlike anything any of us cast or crew have ever attempted before. It is a brilliant fly on the wall episode in real time, placing nurses central in the storyline. It will become a classic Casualty.”

Simon Harper, Acting Executive Producer for Casualty and Holby City, added “It’s thrilling to have Paul, as the co-creator of Casualty, conclude our 30th Anniversary series with this unique episode whose exciting concept is a first for the show.”

Series producer Erika Hossington said: “This very special episode will give the audience a unique insight into an hour in A&E. It will be an intense, emotional hour where staff and patients are faced with life changing events. We want to reflect the front line in its unedited, rawest form, and this one shot episode with a brilliant script from Casualty creator Paul Unwin, has given us the opportunity to do that.”

Casualty first aired in September 1986 and still averages 5.42 million viewers each week.

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