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Placebo. Image shows from L to R: Nurse Dana Luther (Katy Brand), Dr Sian Nuttall (Maxine Peake). Copyright: BBC
Placebo

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.

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Press clippings

Placebo was a comedy pilot set in a hospital, where a drug to ease anxiety is being tested on male volunteers. It was Only When I Laugh with lots of swearing, and jokes about acne, urine, erections, Ann Widdecombe and penis seepage (one man wanted to know whether penis seepage means that your penis seeps, or that you seep penises). A series will almost certainly follow.

Brian Viner, The Independent, 6th May 2008

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