Kingdom Hospital Formats: TV Miniseries / VHS / DVD / Made-for-TV Movie First Aired (US): March 3rd, 2004 Channel: ABC
Synopsis:
Based on the Danish miniseres Riget by Lars von Trier.
In Stephen’s version, the story takes place in Lewiston, Maine, where Kingdom Hospital has been built on the site where a mill burned nearly a century before and several children died in the fire. Artist Peter Rickman (Jack Coleman) is in a coma following an accident in which he was struck by a car while jogging and is visited by a strange creature called Antibus (Kett Turton) and the ghost of a small child, Mary Jensen (Jodelle Ferland). He is being treated by Dr. Hook (Andrew McCarthy). His wife, Natalie is played by Suki Kaiser. A psychic, Sally Druse (Diane Ladd) whom the doctors think is a hypochondriac, is able to tune into the paranormal activities occurring in the hospital and is trying to find their source with the aid of her son, Bobby (Del Pentecost). Other staff include the incompetent Dr. Stegman (Bruce Davison), quirky administrator, Dr. Jesse James (Ed Begley, Jr.), and Dr. Elmer Traff (Jamie Harrold). Stephen makes a cameo as Johnny B. Goode, an elusive hospital security staff person. LOST regular, Evangeline Lilly also made an appearance in this series.
Plans had been made for a second season but ABC cancelled the series before it was filmed.
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Posted By: Angus MacSquinch - 10/28/2009 - 6:07 PM EST
I'm having a blast going back and trying to dig out connections/references to other King works in this project. I wish there was a comprehensive guide that would help with this. Commentary on the DVD's only covers episode one and I believe Wikipedia's list is far from complete. Also, I'm wondering if the reference to Pet Sematary in this project, which has so many references to the Dark Tower series, makes it, by proxy, related to the Dark Tower as well.
Posted By: Tigerlily - 09/12/2009 - 10:05 PM EST
I believe that another tv station should be approched with the series come back and season 2. HBO maybe hell even SCIFI.
Posted By: Jenny Dzido - 06/16/2009 - 4:58 PM EST
i have it on dvd its amazing
Posted By: Rick - 06/03/2009 - 11:40 AM EST
The Story was Good and I Wanted to Follow, but the Time Slot was Very Bad and I Missed too Many Episodes. Multiple Times and/or Formats would be Better_HBO/Showtime?
Posted By: Rosemansion - 04/28/2009 - 2:43 PM EST
I would love to get this show on a dvd! I've seen most of it on t.v. quite a few times and love this "movie".