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.

As the series begins, Adam has taken on more responsibility as the acting registrar under the supervision of consultant Mr. Lockhart (