tlc
tlc is a darkly surreal farce-like sitcom created and written by Fintan Coyle, set in a fictional NHS hospital called South Middlesex where coffee is traded like drugs and pretty much everyone has a personality complex. Dr Laurence Flynn finds himself thrown in at the deep end when he gets his first job after leaving Medical School (where he failed his finals). Always the butt of jokes by other staff (being called on to revive dead people)he has to cope not only with the patients but mad colleagues too - an ex surgeon now the hospital chaplain and a German theatre assistant with a masochistic kink. The show never confirms what 'tlc' stands for, although it's presumed to be a sarcastic reference to the widely used abbreviation for 'tender loving care', but could equally refer to the alternative yet related abbreviation 'total lack of concern'.
Details
- First aired
- 17 Nov 2002
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 6
- TMDB 6.2
- Last aired
- 16 Dec 2002
- Genres
Comedy
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- BBC Two
- Episode runtime
- 30 min
- Countries
GB
- Original language
- en
- Original title
- tlc
- Creators
- Cast
Reece Shearsmithas Dr Laurence Flynn Alexander Armstrongas Dr Stephen Noble Richard Griffithsas Mr Benedict Ron Georgia Mackenzieas Nurse Judy Conway Llewella Gideonas Sister Charity Hope Martin Trenamanas The Wheelchair Man Benedict Wongas Nurse Terry Cheung Tim Brooke-Tayloras Hospital Chaplain Erich Redmanas Gasman Tom Wattas Sid Potter - Writers
Fintan Coyle - Composer
Willie Dowling Peter Baikie
