Funny Women favourite Jo Brand has been commissioned by BBC four for a follow up of her award winning hospital sitcom Getting On. Jo will reprise her role of nurse Kim Wilde in Going Forward and the three part show will focus more on home care, Kim now works for a failing outsource provider as a Care Assistant in the community.
Comedian Omid Djalili will play Kim’s husband Dave, a self employed driver with Tom Davis playing his colleague Terry. The audience will also meet her ailing mum, three kids and dog, as well as get a look at her unfinished extension.
Jo Brand commented on the new show: “Having failed the auditions for Darts Players’ Wives, it’s lovely to slip into a glamorous lilac nurses tunic and step into the exotic world of community health care.”
BBC Four editor Cassian Harrison added: “I’m delighted to have Jo and the Getting On team returning to BBC Four. Getting On was a defining series for the channel and I’m really looking forward to seeing how the story has moved on in the intervening years.”
BBC comedy chief Shane Allen is a fan, saying: “This is the world of zero-hours contracts alongside juggling the responsibilities and demands of that middle generation with demanding children and evermore dependent parents. It’s a world Jo knows well as she brings truth, depth, heart and humour to our everyday world.”
There has been no word yet as to whether the fantastic Vicki Pepperdine or Joanna Scanlan will be back…
You can catch Going Forward on BBC Four later in the year.
