Jo Brand nurses new BBC comedy
Sitcom set in geriatric ward
Jo Brand is to star in a new BBC comedy about nurses working with the elderly.Brand, a former mental health nurse, has co-written Getting On with her co-stars Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine
The show, which will air early next year, will be directed by Peter Capaldi, best known as viciously foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in Armando Iannucci’s The Thick Of It. Scanlan played unambitious Terri Coverley in the political satire.
A corporation spokesman described the new three-part series as ‘darkly funny, tough and compassionate’, adding: ‘[It’s] the story of one ward, in one hospital, which almost all of us will one day experience ourselves – whether we like to admit it or not.’
The programme is being made by independent production house Vera, which also makes Rory Bremner and Mark Thomas’s political comedy shows
Published: 21 Oct 2008
