Hospital People
- TV sitcom / sketch show
- BBC One
- 2016 - 2017
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Mockumentary in which Tom Binns plays various characters who are working in a hospital. Also features Amit Shah, Janine Duvitski and Mandeep Dhillon.
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Pilot - Hospital People
Further details
A new manager, Susan Mitchell, takes over the beleaguered Brimlington hospital. She comes from a commercial management background and many of her changes are focused on making money. She expands the little newsagents, puts parking prices up and installs a new 'point-of-care' patient entertainment system that costs £10 for 24 hours. How will these big decisions affect the little people - and should half of these people even be in a hospital anyway?
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 26th February 2016
- Time
- 10:35pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Tom Binns | Ivan Brackenbury |
| Tom Binns | Susan Mitchell |
| Tom Binns | Ian D Montfort |
| Tom Binns | Father Kenny |
| Mandeep Dhillon | Shaz Dutta |
| Harki Bhambra | Pascal |
| Liz Kingsman (as Liz Lingsman) | Lucy |
| Aidey Pugh | Jonathan |
| Maggie McCarthy | Mrs Leydon |
| Madeleine Bowyer | Journalist |
| Oliver Gatz | Darren Page |
| Moey Hassan | Patient |
| David Mumeni | Doctor |
| Sukh Ojla | Junior Doctor |
| Richard Beanland | Head Injury Patient 1 |
| Max Runham | Head Injury Patient 2 |
| Oliver Wellington | Gary |
| Matt Morgan | Writer |
| Tom Binns | Writer |
| David Kerr | Director |
| Ash Atalla | Executive Producer |
| Tom Binns | Associate Producer |
| Jon Petrie | Producer |
| Mark Davies | Editor |
| Sam Harley | Production Designer |
| Mark O'Sullivan | Engineer |
Press
Playing everyone from an alternative therapy-obsessed porter to a chaplain who'd rather be a comedian, Tom Binns takes on multiple parts in a mockumentary pilot charting life at the fictional Brimlington Hospital. It's nowhere near edgy enough, but there are some good gags nonetheless. Manager Susan Mitchell discusses MRSA rates: "If you come into this hospital with a heart condition, you're going to die of a heart condition, not pick up a secondary infection along the way."
Jonathan Wright, The Guardian, 26th February 2016Hosptial People review
Hospital People has plenty of nice lines, although it falls between a sketch show and a sitcom, not quite having enough plot to justify the latter, beyond the general threat of creeping commercial interests. That's a timely theme, but having a more specific plot would certainly benefit Hospital People were it picked up for a series. Here's hoping, for the deadpanned innuendos could fill a big slot.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th February 2016TV review: Hospital People, BBC1
A new series of pilots kicks off with a medical comedy as sharp as a scalpel, brutally putting Jeremy Hunt and the NHS under the microscope. Actually no. Hospital People is more Carry On Nurse without the nurses and slightly misses a trick by not being particularly political. It is set in a fictional hospital and does at least touch on creeping NHS privatisation, but the main laughs are broad. And there are plenty of them.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th February 2016