TV Series: 1997–2003

The world’s longest-running emergency-medical drama serial, CASUALTY has been a hugely popular part of the BBC's broadcasting schedules since it first appeared in 1986: more than 900 fifty-minute episodes have been aired so far. LOVE'S LABOUR chronicles yet another hectic period for the staff and patients at the main hospital of Holby City, a fictional British metropolis whose residents seem eerily – and entertainingly – prone to calamitous mishaps. Hogg's contribution to EASTENDERS, the BBC’s flagship, London-set soap-opera, was by contrast a one-off special: DOT'S STORY provides an illuminating “bridge” between the two major phases of Hogg’s career, following much-loved elderly gossip Dot (June Brown) as she revisits the Welsh village to which she'd been evacuated during World War II. Making elaborate use of flashbacks, this is by some way the most formally adventurous of Hogg’s television works – with, at its core, a truly moving performance by Brown, whose Dot Cotton (a.k.a. Dot Branning) is now widely acknowledged as one of the greatest and most beloved characters in UK small-screen history. (Neil Young)