Getting On
- TV sitcom
- BBC Four
- 2009 - 2012
- 15 episodes (3 series)
Comedy drama which follows the daily lives of nurses as they go about their routine tasks in an NHS hospital. Stars Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan, Vicki Pepperdine, Ricky Grover and Cush Jumbo
Key details
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2009 - 2012
- Channels
- 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
- Companies
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.
Additional details
- Also known as
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- Jo Brand's Getting On (Promotional title)
- Production
- Location
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Colour
- Soundtrack
- Title theme music is Roll River Roll by Richard Hawley.
Website links
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 8th July 2009 at 10pm on BBC Four
- Most recent repeats
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- Wednesday 14th June 2017 at 11:30pm on Gold - Series 2, Episode 6
- Thursday 8th June 2017 at 11:35pm on Gold - Series 2, Episode 5
- Wednesday 7th June 2017 at 11:35pm on Gold - Series 2, Episode 4