HBO has given a pilot order to Getting On, an U.S. version of the award-winning BBC Four medical comedy of the same name. The project hails from Big Love creators Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer, who wrote the adaptation, and BBC Worldwide Prods.
Set in a women’s geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the elderly in an overwhelmed healthcare system. The original series was created by and starred Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine, who will serve as executive producers on the HBO adaptation.
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