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Getting On (2013–2015)

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Set in a 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, ... See full summary »

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  • Alia Shawkat in Getting On: Episode #2.6 (2010)
  • Alex Borstein in Getting On: Episode #2.4 (2010)
  • Getting On (2013)
  • Alia Shawkat in Getting On (2013)
  • Lynn Cohen in Getting On (2013)
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Creator:

Mark V. Olsen
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Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys.

Another 1 win & 9 nominations.

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21 December 2013 | moondancer
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| HBO gets it right
Just when I thought that HBO was beyond help, they finally get one right by largely leaving things alone. Having watched and thoroughly enjoyed many episodes of the British original with the wonderful Jo Brand ( one of the series creators and executive producers )in the lead role, I was very impressed by how much HBO has captured the spirit and quirkiness of this series. I think HBO has wisely kept the starkness of what the patient experience is, and perhaps given the show more room to fly by making it a teeny bit more gritty in terms of language and mature content. At first I was a little baffled by the American casting, but at only four episodes in they've done a great job of setting the stage without yet exhausting the overwhelming idiotic bureaucracy the staff alternately endure and wield like a weapon. So I'll give the show time to grow and capture the flip side - the patient interaction and the audience's need to connect with and root for the one mostly sane staffer.

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While guests on "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," show-runners Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer said that they named the Billy Barnes Extended Care Facility after the same Billy Barnes who wrote the popular song "(Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair," since the title and the lyrics of the song express some of the themes of the show. One of the stars of the show, Ann Morgan Guilbert, got her start in show business in The Billy Barnes Revue, Barnes's musical and sketch comedy revue from the late 1950s and early 1960s which introduced that song.

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Release Date:

24 November 2013

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English

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Pasadena, California, USA

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