SURGICAL spirit

Ben Whishaw stars as an overworked junior doctor in an adaptation of a bestselling memoir

- RICHARD MCCLURE, ELAINE REILLY, NATASHA HOLT, STEVEN PERKINS

NEW DRAMA

This Is Going to Hurt Tuesday, BBC1 HD, 9 pm

Comedian Adam Kay’s memoir of his time as a junior doctor, This Is Going to Hurt, was an instant bestseller when it was published in 2017. Now, Kay has adapted his diaries into a comic seven-part drama starring Ben Whishaw as Adam, a junior doctor in an overstretched obstetrics and gynecology ward, who spends his days working back-to-back shifts and getting covered in the bodily fluids of strangers.