Ben Whishaw (London Spy, James Bond) has been set as the lead in This Is Going To Hurt, BBC Two's adaptation of Adam Kay's bestselling diaries documenting his time as a junior doctor. He will play a fictionalised version of Kay. 
BBC Two has given the greenlight to This Is Going To Hurt, an eight episode comedy drama adaptation of the bestselling diaries of junior doctor Adam Kay. This Is Going To Hurt tells the unvarnished truth of life as a junior doctor: the 97-hour weeks, the life and death decisions, the constant tsunami of bodily fluids and the fact the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Set on labour ward, the series delivers a brutally honest depiction of life as a junior doctor on the wards, and the toll the job can take back home.