Getting On is a BBC Four comedy drama starring Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine as three members of NHS staff who are just 'getting on with it' in an overlooked corner of the health service.Welcome to Ward B4, a backwater in an NHS trust hospital. This is the world of slips, trips and hips; healthcare at its least glamorous.Messy choices are the order of the day in a world where necessity produces its own solutions: the story of one ward, in one hospital.
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than he is. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, who Sammy has hired as his assistant but who really uses him as his whipping boy.
