Getting On - BBC4 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Getting On. Image shows from L to R: Doctor Pippa Moore (Vicki Pepperdine), Nurse Kim Wilde (Jo Brand), Sister Den Flixter (Joanna Scanlan). Copyright: Vera Productions

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

2009 - 2012

Channel

BBC Four

Episodes

15 (3 series)

Stars

Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan, Vicki Pepperdine, Ricky Grover and Cush Jumbo

Writers

Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine

Directors

Peter Capaldi and Sue Tully

Producers

Geoff Atkinson, Lucy Lumsden, Simon Lupton and Gregor Sharp

Company

Welcome to Ward K2, a backwater in an NHS trust hospital. This is the world of slips, trips and hips; healthcare at its least glamorous.

Getting On is a BBC Four comedy drama starring Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan, Vicki Pepperdine and Ricky Grover as four members of NHS staff who are just 'getting on with it' in an overlooked corner of the health service.

Messy choices are the order of the day in a world where necessity produces its own solutions: the story of one ward, in one hospital.

Having faced restructuring, closure, on-off relationships, and the daily grind of caring for dementia patients and much more besides, Series 3 sees the team sticking together - now transferred from the closed down Ward B4 to brand-spanking-new K2 at nearby hospital St Jude's. The equipment may be newer, the decor more modern, but will life get any easier?

New admissions bring new problems but, in Getting On, the real challenge is just getting on with life in a world where few things move on.

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Location

Camera set-up

Single camera

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Soundtrack

Title theme music is Roll River Roll by Richard Hawley.

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Wednesday 8th July 2009 at 10pm on BBC Four

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