Casualty will not air in its usual One slot on Saturday 15 May, as the channel gives over the evening to coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest grand finale. The live broadcast runs from 8pm until 11.50pm, pushing the medical drama off the schedule for the night.
That means viewers looking for the next chapter in Lethal Legacy will have to wait. The current boxset has already left some threads hanging, including the chequered past between Flynn Byron and Colonel Jack Bard, after the pair’s tense exchange in which Bard told Byron, “Your team did well today, Byron. No deadwood,” and Flynn echoed the word “deadwood.”
The pause comes at a point when the story has raised fresh questions around Bard’s men and the fallout from a chemical explosion at the Wyvern Hill Estate, which left one of his soldiers injured. There was also historic bruising found around Bard’s kidney, adding to the sense that not everything in the unit’s past is being said out loud. Flynn also mentioned a mystery man named Adam during the episode, a detail that has kept viewers waiting for more information.
Casualty is not being dropped for good. It will return in its normal slot next Saturday, 23 May, on One, with an early release at 6am on iPlayer. For anyone following the unresolved threads in Lethal Legacy, that is the date to watch.
So is Casualty on tonight? No — not on Saturday 15 May. Eurovision has the One slot, and Casualty is back next Saturday.
