ABC Schedules "Kingdom Hospital"
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Stephen King's "Kingdom Hospital" will be shown on Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. ET beginning in approximately 13 weeks. ABC has thankfully decided to place the show "Sisco", based on the J. Lo drama "Out of Sight", on hiatus until March and fill that 10 p.m. slot with Celebrity Mole on Jan. 14. Kingdom Hospital will begin after the Mole's seven-week run is complete.
"Kingdom Hospital" is based on dogme95 co-creator & director Lars Von Trier's "The Kingdom". The 15-hour miniseries is set in a hospital that's built on the ruins of a burned-down medical institution and a mill. The ghosts of those who died, presumably, haunt the modern-day doctors and patients.
Andrew McCarthy stars as a surgeon living in the hospital's basement. Diane Ladd ("Citizen Ruth") plays a psychic hypochondriac patient. Ed Begley Jr. ("Transylvania 6-5000") and Bruce Davison ("X2") also star.
Source: Really Scary
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| It's sad that Americans cant appreciate the original. The Kingdom is a one of a kind film, a true orignal. From the shakey 35mm filming to the casting. Why re-do somthing that has already been done, and done well? Can't anybody come up with anything original anymore? Stephen King has already borrowed enough form other writers. Maybe he is loosing his edge. I plan on watching his re- make just to see what he has done in his "adaptation". I really don't have any high hopes for his Kingdom Hospital. With any luck, it might be good! | |
| 01-18-2004 by JCA | discuss |