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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 274977" data-attributes="member: 33">An interesting analysis however, I will challenge a few of the points made by The Guardian. I agree that the reason given by the BBC is to be less London centric but I don't believe it. Holby is set in a fictional county called Wyvern in South West England and it is filmed in Elstree Studios which is in Hertfordshire not London. If Hertfordshire is not far enough away from London, they could have moved production to another location like they did with Waterloo Road which moved its production from Rochdale to Scotland half way through its run.I still maintain the real reason it was cancelled was political. To please the Tory government, the BBC didn't want to screen a weekly show reflected the reality of the NHS under our far right government which includes the underfunding of the NHS, staff shortages, stressed and overworked staff, lack of adequate equipment and decisions being made for financial reasons rather than medical ones.</blockquote>