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tlc

2002 · 1 season · 30m per episode · Comedy

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'.

Seasons

• Series 1 — 6 episodes (November 17, 2002)

Cast

• Reece Shearsmith as Dr Laurence Flynn
• Alexander Armstrong as Dr Stephen Noble
• Richard Griffiths as Mr Benedict Ron
• Georgia Mackenzie as Nurse Judy Conway
• Llewella Gideon as Sister Charity Hope
• Martin Trenaman as The Wheelchair Man
• Benedict Wong as Nurse Terry Cheung
• Tim Brooke-Taylor as Hospital Chaplain
• Erich Redman as Gasman
• Tom Watt as Sid Potter

Details

Created by

Fintan Coyle

First aired

November 17, 2002

Episodes

6

Genres

Comedy

Network

BBC Two

Status

Ended

TMDB score

6.2 / 10 from 6 votes