This Is Going To Hurt
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One
- 2022
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Comedy drama series based on Adam Kay's book about his time as a junior doctor. Also features Ben Whishaw, Ambika Mod, Alex Jennings, Rory Fleck Byrne, Michele Austin and more.
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Adam Kay interview
I got a Kinder Surprise when a patient asked me to remove an egg from her privates, says NHS doc Adam Kay.
Amy Jones, The Sun, 30th January 2022Ben Whishaw interview
He's been Paddington, Keats, and now a doctor in This Is Going To Hurt. He talks about his off-stage shyness and why he wasn't delighted by the reveal of Q's sexuality in No Time To Die.
Tom Lamont, The Guardian, 29th January 2022What's it like to see your life story on TV?
Telling your story in a book is hard enough. But what if it ends up on screen? Adam Kay, writer of This Is Going To Hurt, and Dolly Alderton, who penned Everything I Know About Love, relive the shocks.
Duncan Barrett, The Guardian, 29th December 2021This Is Going To Hurt TV series completes filming
Filming has completed on This Is Going To Hurt, the BBC One comedy drama based on Adam Kay's book. Ben Whishaw stars, with Dame Harriet Walter, Ambika Mod, Michele Austin, Alex Jennings and Rory Fleck Byrne also on the cast list.
British Comedy Guide, 25th June 2021Adam Kay on adapting his book for TV
"I hope that the three million people who've read the book feel like I've done it justice on screen. I certainly think I have. And I hope that the eight billion people who haven't read the book will give it a go too."
Drama Quarterly, 17th February 2021Ben Whishaw to star in This Is Going To Hurt TV show
Ben Whishaw will take the lead role in This Is Going To Hurt, the BBC Two comedy drama series based on Adam Kay's best-selling book.
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Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 17th July 2019Adam Kay announces Christmas tour
Comedian and former doctor Adam Kay has announced a string of live shows around Christmas, based on Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, the sequel to his best-selling diaries of life in the NHS.
British Comedy Guide, 1st July 2019Adam Kay's junior doctor book to become BBC comedy drama
BBC Two has ordered This Is Going To Hurt, an eight-part comedy drama based on the award-winning memoirs of former junior doctor Adam Kay.
British Comedy Guide, 6th July 2018