Going Forward
- TV sitcom
- BBC Four
- 2016
- 3 episodes (1 series)
Sitcom sequel to BBC Four medical comedy Getting On, following nurse Kim Wilde at home and after leaving the NHS. Stars Jo Brand, Omid Djalili, Tom Davis, Helen Griffin, Ben Colbert and Imogen Byron
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Review: Going Forward, BBC4
There are only three episodes in this run, which is a shame. Brand has become one of the highest profile comedians in the country in recent years and she is doing something here that is both relevant and funny. If Ken Loach made sitcoms they might be something like Going Forward.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th May 2016Going Forward: Jo Brand shines but sitcom needs nursing
This was another comedy about broken Britain, but focusing not on those who toil inside a knackered state institution but the wider social fabric, privatised to buggery but somehow doddering on. Homelier and gentler and patchier than Getting On, it somehow lacks its asperity but also its poetry.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 19th May 2016Jo Brand interview
"If you're doing comedy, you must be funny first and preach second."
Tim Lewis, The Guardian, 15th May 2016BBC Four orders Getting On spin-off Going Forward
BBC Four has commissioned Going Forward, a new sitcom spin-off from Getting On, starring Jo Brand as nurse Kim Wilde.
British Comedy Guide, 9th March 2016