Is This Is Going To Hurt based on a true story?
THE new BBC One drama series This Is Going To Hurt follows the life of Junior doctor Adam Kay.
The series is an adaptation by the real-life Kay himself from the author's hit non-fiction book, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor.
Is This Is Going To Hurt based on a true story?
This is Going to Hurt is based on Adam Kay's diaries from when he worked as a junior doctor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, so it is based on a true story.
The comedy will show the ins and outs of a doctors life at hospital with sleepless nights and missed weekends.
The series will show Adam finding his way through hospital hierarchy, as he is junior enough to work the crippling hours but senior enough to deal with the incredible responsibilities which are often life and death.
This is Going to Hurt will also see how Adam tries to hang on to his personal life while juggling 97-hour weeks.
Who is Adam Kay?
Adam Richard Kay is a 41-year-old British comedy writer, author, comedian and former doctor.
Kay grew up in a Jewish Household along with his sister Sophie.
His father was a doctor, and he often describes becoming a doctor himself was as difficult decision.
The Kay family was from Poland, with the original family name being Strykowski.
Kay attended an all-boys school before attending Imperial College London, where he read medicine and graduated in 2004.
Kay worked for a number of years as an obstetrics and gynaecology trainee, writing textbooks on the subject.
He worked as a doctor between 2004 and 2010, but then left the profession after a patient suffered an undiagnosed placental abruption which left him traumatised.
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When is NHS drama on the BBC?
This Is Going To Hurt will premiered on Tuesday, February 8 and will be aired weekly at the same 9pm time-slot on BBC One.
Each episode will run for 45 minutes and all episodes will then become available to watch on BBC iPlayer after.
BBC announced the drama in July 2018, but there was a long delay before production could begin as well as the Covid pandemic.
However, filming finally wrapped in June 2021.
The BBC drama was originally meant to consist of eight episodes but has now been narrowed down to seven.