Placebo
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2008
- 1 pilot
BBC Three sitcom about six strangers who volunteer to be incarcerated in a high tech clinic and injected with experimental drugs. Stars Maxine Peake, Nick Mohammed, Jamie Davis, Okezie Morro, Katy Brand and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2008
- Channel
- BBC Three
- Episodes
- 1 Pilot
- Creator
- James Griffiths
- Stars
- Maxine Peake, Nick Mohammed, Jamie Davis, Okezie Morro, Katy Brand, Ayesha Antoine, Vyelle Croom, Morgan Val Baker and Andrew Ellis
- Writer
- Mark Oswin
- Director
- Michael Buffong
- Producers
- Lucy Armitage and Kenton Allen
- Company
Pilot for a medical sitcom. Six male volunteers must spend 28 days locked up in a high tech drug testing clinic with angry nurses and scary doctors.
Vija is the main character - a newbie to the world of clinical trials. He's joined by angry loud-mouth Brandon, stupid Gavin, Columbian done-it-all-before Jose, posh Marcus and chilled-out Femi (who inexplicably keeps a large wood sculpture of a penis).
The staff are spotty Nurse Kelly (who Vija manages to accidentally repeatedly offend), unsympathetic Nurse Dana and Sian Nuttall, the scary doctor in charge of the MedaLink tests.
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Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 5th May 2008 at 11pm on BBC Three
- Episode length
- 30 minutes