Damned: UK comedian Jo Brand turns her focus to social work in new show
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Getting On, which Brand co-created and starred in, was so compassionate, keenly observed and perfectly formed that even the later American remake was a thing of exquisite, uncomfortable humanity (that series, starring Alex Borstein, Laurie Metcalf and Niecy Nash, is still on Foxtel On Demand).
In Damned, Brand turns her focus to social work – her mother’s profession, as it happens. Some obvious similarities invite comparison with Getting On, but Brand, co-creator Morwenna Banks and their writing partner, Will Smith (The Thick of It, Veep) keep the tone lighter and incline a bit towards the farcical.
Alan Davies and Jo Brand.
Brand plays Rose Denby, a veteran child-protection worker at a local authority that’s being gutted by budget cuts.
Possessed of great experience and wisdom, along with a particularly sharp tongue, Rose is not entirely perfect. She’s constantly late and frequently distracted by the slipshod job that she and her useless, semi-estranged husband are doing of raising their own kids, and she also has to deal with a mother who has begun showing signs of dementia.
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