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[[File:GettingOn_5120.jpg|frame|[[Wrong Genre Savvy|Hello Nurse!]]]]
Getting On (2009-) is a [[Britcom|British sitcom]] set in a hospital ward a million miles away from [[House (TV series)|Princeton General]]. Situated right at the wrong end of the [[Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty]], the series is centred on a general ward and the unglamorous lives of its long-suffering staff. The series is written by its three female leads: Jo Brand as Nurse [[Named After Somebody Famous|Kim Wilde]], Joanna Scanlan as Sister Den Flixter, and Vicki Pepperdine as Dr Pippa Moore. The show is intended to be a [[Sliding Scale of Realistic Versus Fantastic|realistic]] portrayal of hospital life with naturalistic dialogue and [[Jittercam|shaky camera movements]]. Its director Peter Capaldi may have learned a few tricks from his time working with [[Armando Iannucci]] on ''[[The Thick of It]]''.
Kim has returned to nursing after some time away, and is struggling to cope with the changes the [[National Health Service|NHS]] has been through in the meantime. New regulations stop her from providing good old-fashioned patient care and constantly throw up problems, not least of which is the oversensitive Matron Hilary Loftus.
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* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: Nurse Kim Wilde, who is [[Irony|somewhat less glamorous than her namesake]]. Apparently the non-nurse Kim Wilde approves.
* [[No Social Skills]]: Pippa, who seems unable to empathise with patients and staff alike. A performance review gives her an embarrassingly low score for communication skills:
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Kim, who remembers the NHS before health and safety legislation made everyone's jobs so much more difficult.
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: ''Roll River Roll'' by Richard Hawley.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Jo Brand drew on her experience of working as a psychiatric nurse at London's Maudsley Hospital.
* [[This Is Your Premise
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