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Jenny Morrill Dec 20, 2016

Russ Abbot, Bullseye, Noel Edmonds and a film we all watched in the same room. Christmas TV was more exciting in the 80s...

Cast your mind back to when Christmas Day wasn't about Doctor Who followed by sticking something on Netflix until it was time to go watch the annual fist fight outside the pub.

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In the 80s, Christmas was about seeing which fantastic fare the TV had decided to bless us with. Of course, the more prepared among us knew this well in advance, having eagerly pored over the Radio Times/TV Times to check that Jimmy Cricket's Family Laugh 'n' Waz would be shown. There it was – right after Reflections On The Eucharist With The Reverend Paul Leyland.

Comedian, writer and actress Jo Brand returns as Kim Wilde in a spin-off from her award winning BBC series Getting On. Going Forward is a brand-new three-part comedy for BBC Four that turns the spotlight on the Cinderella of the NHS, domiciliary care, along with the patched-up domestic lives we all lead.

Holby City and Grantchester star Imogen Byron (represented by Byron's Management) and newcomer Ben Colbert, who trained at the Miskin Theatre in Dartford (pictured above) play two of her three children, with Omid Djalili as her private-hire driver husband Dave. The cast also includes Drama Centre graduate Harry Haynes (represented by Aha) and Tom Davis.

Employed by a failing outsource provider as a Care Assistant in the community, Kim receives little more than the minimum wage for a package which consists of unpaid overtime, management bullying and horrendous shifts. Her daily slog is matched only by that of her husband,...

"Enlightened" may be no more, but HBO remains in search of more comedies to add to its lineup. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the premium network's just given a series greenlight to one of its pilots. HBO's given a six-episode order to "Getting On," a remake of the bleakly funny 2009-2012 BBC series of the same name written by and starring Jo Brand, Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan (with "The Thick of It" star Peter Capaldi directing several of the 15 total episodes). This U.S. take on the BAFTA-winning comedy comes from Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, the co-creators of "Big Love," by way of their Anima Sola Productions company. Geoff Atkinson, the producer of the U.K. series, will serve as an executive producer alongside Lisa Bellomo and Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner of BBC Worldwide Productions. Olsen and Scheffer, who wrote the pilot, oversaw five seasons of...

Big Love creators Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer are returning to HBO’s primetime. The pay cable network has picked up the duo’s comedy pilot Getting On to series with a six-episode order. An U.S. version of the award-winning BBC Four medical comedy of the same name, HBO’s Getting On stars Laurie Metcalf, Alex Borstein and Niecy Nash. Set in a women’s geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital as put-upon nurses, it follows 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. BBC Worldwide Prods. is producing. The creators and stars of the original series, Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine, executive produce the HBO series. Olsen and Scheffer, who wrote the adaptation through their overall deal at HBO, are executive producing though their Anima Sola Prods.

Mere days after canceling Enlightened after two seasons, HBO has picked up one of its comedy pilots to series. The premium cable network has given a six-episode series order to Getting On, a reformat of the BAFTA Award-winning comedy series of the same name, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The HBO adaptation hails from Big Love creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer and their Anima Sola Productions banner, who penned the pilot for BBC Worldwide Productions. Anima senior vp Lisa Bellomo will produce alongside BBC Worldwide Productions' Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner. Original series producer Geoff Atkinson will

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HBO has given a pilot order for an American adaptation of the award-winning UK hospital sitcom "Getting On" reports Deadline.

Set in the female geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, the darkly comic series follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators who struggle with the realities of caring for the elderly in an overwhelmed healthcare system.

"Big Love" creators Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer wrote the adaptation for BBC Worldwide Prods. while original series creators and stars Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine will executive produce. Geoff Atkinson, Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner will also executive produce.

The announcement follows in the wake of the success of "Veep" for the network. That sitcom hails from Armando Iannucci, the Scottish comedian writer/producer/director behind acclaimed British hit "The Thick of It" and "Veep" has been criticised for essentially being a watered down American adaptation of 'Thick'.

Exclusive: 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. Olsen and Scheffer are executive producing the pilot though their Anima Sola Prods. banner, with Svp Lisa Bellomo producing. BBC Worldwide Prods.’ Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner also executive produce, along with the British series’ producer Geoff Atkinson.