There is an article published recently in Personnel Today, a trade newspaper for the Human Resources industry. In it, it talks about the role of HR staff in medicial television programmes, and goes on to talk about Joanna and Sue in Green Wing.

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Although Green Wing has no less than two prominent HR characters - HR director Joanna and staff liaison officer Sue White - scenes of them fulfilling a professional role are strangely absent.

More prone to hitting the bottle and bleaching her moustache than filling out staff appraisal forms, Joanna neither sacks nor interviews.

The Channel 4 publicity describes Sue, meanwhile, as having a suit "from a fatal road traffic accident".

Yet to the show's creator and producer, Victoria Pile, having a wealth of HR representatives on telly "is a tribute to the growing prominence of the profession".

She says: "Many people are uncomfortable with the thought of being spied on and observed by people managers, but in Joanna and Sue, we're exploring the comedic foibles of women of a certain age, not having a dig at HR."

"Lawyers, policemen and medics have been done to death in British TV and as writers, we are always looking for new jobs to explore."

 

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