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

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

Getting On - Complete Series 1 & 2

Set in Ward B4 of King Edward VIIIth hospital, a run-of-the-mill female medical ward in an NHS oupost someway outside London, Getting On its humour in the daily grind faced by the staff - return-to-practice nurse Kim Wilde, the lowest form of life after the lino, Sister Den Flixter, balancing work and pleasure, Dr Pippa Moore searching for a way out and modern matron Hilary Loftus, keen to make an impression.

The black comedy flows thick and fast as Kim, Den and Pippa wade through the bureaucracy, bickering and daily battles with life and death on this health care backwater.

First released: Monday 6th December 2010

Extra features

  • Series 1:
  • Interviews with Kim Wilde, Sister Den Flixter & Dr Pippa Moore
  • Distributor: 2 Entertain
  • Region: 2 & 4
  • Discs: 2
  • Minutes: 262
  • Subtitles: English
  • Catalogue: BBCDVD3206

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