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" Jo Brand sitcom Getting On is to be remade for a US audience. Big Love creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffe are developing a pilot based on the BBC Four series, The Wrap reports. The UK original - written by and starring Brand, Vicki Pepperdine, and Joanna Scanlan - began in July 2009 and has run for two series.  The show follows the lives of nurses who care for elderly patients at an NHS hospital. &amp;quot;When we proposed the reformat to BBC Worldwide and HBO, the issues in elder care were very personal to both of us,&amp;quot; said Scheffer. A third series of the original Getting On was commissioned in May 2011 with Brand also winning a BAFTA for her performance. &amp;amp;gt; Breaking Bad exec, Michael Mann team for new HBO murder drama&amp;amp;gt; HBO orders new pilot from Stephen Merchant Watch a clip from Getting On below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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