What Getting on does really well, far better than any other hospital-based comedy I've ever seen, is simply to convey the feeling of what working in a hospital is actually like.
Mr Reed, an improbably clear-skinned 49, went through his own self-cleansing in 2006, when he was trounced in a race for lieutenant-governor of Georgia.
The Sunday Leader has been a controversial newspaper because we say it like we see it: whether it be a spade, a thief or a murderer, we call it by that name.
In our own time, the opposition between 'descriptivists' and 'prescriptivists' has often become extreme, with both sides painting unreal pictures of the other.