TV Review: The Hospital People

Starring Tom Binns

9:30pm BBC1 Friday


Starring the comparatively unknown Tom Binns, The Hospital People is the latest in the long line of spoof fly on the documentaries (Come Fly with Me being the best known of them) that takes a pot at the type of programme that seems to dominate the schedules. Binns takes on 4 roles, Hospital Radio DJ, Chaplin, Herbal Medicine specialist and a female Administrator. It is the Herbal Medical specialist provides Binns with the biggest laughs as his rejection of conventional medical thinking comes back to haunt him. But the show is stolen by the week's guest star, Alex McQueen  best known for The Thick of It plays the star of a medical drama who believes that he is a real doctor and only is snapped out of this whenever someone a real life medical TV drama which launches him into a rage. The Hospital People has a few laughs that make you tune for the rest of the series which includes a guest appearance by (love him or hate him) Russell Brand.