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Casualty pulled from screens tonight in BBC One schedule shake-up
The long-running medical drama won't air tonight.
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- Michael Adams
Published: Saturday, 21 February 2026 at 9:00 am
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If you're hoping to tune into BBC One medical drama Casualty tonight (21 February), prepare to be bitterly disappointed.
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The soap is taking somewhat of a mid-series break, to accommodate sports coverage by the channel.
Surprisingly, it's not the Winter Olympics pushing things back, but coverage of the Six Nations Rugby Union match between Wales and Scotland.
The broadcast begins at 4pm, with kick-off forty minutes later. Gabby Logan and John Inverdale will commentate on the match in the third round of fixtures, held at Principality Stadium.
The soap won't air tonight because of Six Nations coverage. BBC Studios
This will be followed by Gladiators at 7:15pm, and Michael McIntyre's Big Show an hour later. New drama The Walsh Sisters, based on Marian Keyes's novels, follows at 9:15pm ahead of the news.
Fear not, Casualty will return to our screens next week (28 February).
It's a tense time in the ED, as Flynn Byron (Olly Rix) prepares for another visit from the CQC (Care Quality Commission). Holby has found itself in hot water over recent months, with several avoidable deaths and questionable workplace practices taking place.
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With everyone on high alert to make the day go as smooth as possible, will resident doctors Matty Linlaker (Aron Julius) and Kim Chang (Jasmine Bayes) throw a spanner in the works?
Meanwhile, Teddy Gowan (Milo Clarke) and Jacob Masters (Charles Venn) are at loggerheads over PC Ashley Sullivan's (Hannah Traylen) wrongful arrest of Blake Gardner (David Ajayi).
Elsewhere, following her sexual assault, Siobhan McKenzie (Melanie Hill) suffers another setback.
Casualty airs Saturday evenings BBC One or can be streamed from 6am on iPlayer.
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Michael AdamsSoaps Editor
Michael Adams is the Soaps Editor at Radio Times, covering all of the hot gossip and spoilers from Weatherfield to Walford, Emmerdale to Hollyoaks and everywhere in-between. He joined the team from Metro, where he spent two years as a Soaps Reporter and previously worked on the sets of both Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
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