{"id":18733,"date":"2023-05-30T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T14:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/derek-thompson-exiting-bbc-ones-casualty\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T14:25:20","slug":"derek-thompson-exiting-bbc-ones-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/derek-thompson-exiting-bbc-ones-casualty\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Thompson Exiting BBC One\u2019s Casualty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Derek Thompson will be exiting BBC One\u2019s <em>Casualty<\/em> after 37 years of starring as Charlie Fairhead.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is <em>Casualt<\/em>y\u2019s longest serving cast member and has played a central part in the series since it launched in 1986. His final scenes as Charlie will air in 2024, with a gripping exit storyline that will place him front and center.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the show\u2019s run, Charlie has been a central part of the hospital\u2019s emergency department and has been at the center of multiple major storylines, including when he was run over by an ambulance on his wedding day, a near-fatal cardiac arrest during a gang siege and his loving relationship and heartbreaking farewell with beloved fellow nurse Duffy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Casualty<\/em> is a BBC Studios production for BBC One and iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time has come for me to hang up Charlie\u2019s scrubs after the most wonderful 37 years,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cCharlie Fairhead was inspired by a real nurse\u2014Pete Salt. Together with the writers and producers, I have tried to bring to Charlie the compassion, kindness, heroism and sound judgement that we all see and love in Pete, and I want to say thanks to Pete and everyone else over that time who has inspired me in bringing this character to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jon Sen, executive producer of <em>Casualty<\/em> for BBC Studios, added: \u201cDerek and I would often joke that, after such a long and dramatic career in the NHS, there was almost nothing that Charlie hadn\u2019t seen. So it was an amazing surprise to me when Derek arrived with a brilliant idea for Charlie\u2019s exit as part of an upcoming storyline, which was too good to pass up. We will all miss Derek enormously. Over nearly four decades, Derek has crafted an iconic character who is woven into the fabric of British TV history. We will miss his craft, his humor and his on-screen presence. We\u2019re also going to miss a friend, so for the next few months we\u2019re going to have a ball filming Charlie\u2019s final chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Derek Thompson will be exiting BBC One\u2019s Casualty after 37 years of starring as Charlie Fairhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":18734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[769,201,1138,1914,6773,6774,6775],"class_list":["post-18733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-iplayer","tag-bbc-one","tag-bbc-studios","tag-casualty","tag-charlie-fairhead","tag-derek-thompson","tag-jon-sen","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Derek Thompson Exiting BBC One\u2019s Casualty - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/derek-thompson-exiting-bbc-ones-casualty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Derek Thompson Exiting BBC One\u2019s Casualty - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Actor Derek Thompson will be exiting BBC One\u2019s Casualty after 37 years of starring as Charlie Fairhead.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/derek-thompson-exiting-bbc-ones-casualty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-30T14:25:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/BBCOne-Casualty-0523.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"337\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/derek-thompson-exiting-bbc-ones-casualty\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/derek-thompson-exiting-bbc-ones-casualty\/\",\"name\":\"Derek Thompson Exiting BBC One\u2019s Casualty - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-30T14:25:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-30T14:25:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/derek-thompson-exiting-bbc-ones-casualty\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/derek-thompson-exiting-bbc-ones-casualty\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/derek-thompson-exiting-bbc-ones-casualty\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Derek Thompson Exiting BBC One\u2019s Casualty\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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