Guest imported_Europe Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 This show is a remake of the best TV series I have ever seen. It was produced in Denmark in the 90's and simply called The Kingdom (or "Riget" in danish). It was so good, funny, spooky, all in one. Its set in a creepy hospital where everything is not as it seem and all the characters have weird twists. Directed by famous director Lars Von Trier, the original is out on DVD worldwide. But now Stephen King has rewritten and the new series is airing on ABC from March 3rd. http://abc.go.com/movies/kingdomhospital.html Kingdom Hospital Wednesday, March 3 at 9/8c Starring Andrew McCarthy, Diane Ladd, Ed Begley Jr. and Bruce Davison. Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, the haunting new 15-hour drama series created directly for television by the award-winning, best-selling master of horror, will premiere with a two-hour episode from 9:00-11:00 p.m., ET on Wednesday, March 3, and will air in its regular 10:00-11:00 p.m., ET timeslot beginning Wednesday, March 10. The Kingdom is a hospital with a bizarre population that includes a nearly blind security guard, a nurse who regularly faints at the sight of blood and a paraplegic artist whose recovery is a step beyond miraculous. When patients and staff hear the tortured voice of a little girl crying through the halls, they are dismissive of any suggestion of mysticism or unseen powers … at their own peril. Andrew McCarthy plays the role of Dr. Hook, a brilliant surgeon who resides in the hospital's basement and has a penchant for collecting medical equipment. Diane Ladd is Mrs. Druse, a psychic hypochondriac whose strong connection to the spirit world repeatedly draws her to the emergency room of Kingdom Hospital. Bruce Davison is Dr. Stegman, whose absent bedside manner and arrogance are paralleled only by his ineptitude as a physician. Using Lars Von Trier's Danish miniseries Riget (a.k.a. The Kingdom) as a point of inspiration, Stephen King gives this series a unique, darkly comedic and menacing American touch. King himself describes it as ER crossed with The Shining. Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital is executive-produced by Stephen King and Mark Carliner and produced by Tom Brodek. Bob Phillips is also producer. The series is directed by Craig Baxley. Richard Dooling will serve as creative consultant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Europe Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 From the original series http://www.math.chalmers.se/~wistrand/pics/riget.gif'> http://www.o2.dk/riget/elevator/img_ele/e0_drus.jpg'> http://imprezy.onet.pl/_i/main/lars/krol.jpg'> http://www.in.gr/covers/KingdomTheTV.jpg'> Cover of the DVD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Europe Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 More talk about the original series: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108906/ Man, I wish I could watch this show! I hope itll make it over here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WebsterUno Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 *believe* sounds like it might be good. If I get the chance, Ill check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_sofarok Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 i doubt the remake will be as good, but perhaps king's envolvment will help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WebsterUno Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 Originally posted by sofarok i doubt the remake will be as good, but perhaps king's envolvment will help... yeah, thats what I was thinking too. DIdnt a few shows from overseas come to america, only to flop big time. I know Big Brother was from Europe, and so was that PBS show. But, if Stephen King is involved, it might be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 dont worry europe... like all the big TV shows these days... It will be out on DVD by next xmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Europe Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 ¨ I hope so. See the thing is, the series was written as three mini-series, about 4 episodes pr. mini-series. But they only produced the first two mini-series and now the two leading actors (the old lady seen in the elevator above and the guy in the suit in the morgue) are both dead. So they will never make the third mini-series now and Ill never know how the whole thing ends. Now I can at least get the Stephen king ending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 DUDE, I'VE TOTALLY SEEN THIS SHIT!!! Holy shit, it fucking ruled... I watched this two summers ago with a sublet roomate with particularly strange tastes. She came up from the video store with like 4 tapes, and says, "I got this Danish miniseries about a haunted hospital, wanna watch?", and I'm like "Uhh, ok, that's fucking random, but sure". 30 minutes later I was laughing so hard, that shit was straaange... It's like you're watching ER for a few hours with normal doctor stuff and human relationships, and all of a sudden out of nowhere shit gets really fucking weird with ghosts and supernatural stuff, and basically merits a big ass WTF all over the place. We were hooked, we watched all the episodes in a row, and got PISSED when we learned the final episodes were never made. It was awesome, complete randomness. I called my parents the next day and said "I watched an entire Danish haunted-hospital miniseries yesterday. I have no idea what the fuck I was thinking. It was really fucking strange." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Europe Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 Bump! This series airs tonight in America on ABC! So make sure you check it out. Its also explains the deatils about Stephen Kings own traffic accident, I saw clips this morning and it looked very dope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimsøn Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 :lol: Thanks for the bumpo. I remember this thread, but then I hadn't seen the commercials & now I know what you're talking about, and since everyone is speaking so highly of it I think I'll watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 i hope it does well and ends up on tv over here too. sounds awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski Mask Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 I caught the 30 second teaser that global was running a few times, and just dismissed it as some dysmal new Cancon, cranked out of the canadian tv mill, to meet the requirements for this year. looked like uttter shit. low production value. is it really that intresting looking? perhaps global should sack the guy cutting those promos together.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Europe Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 Some critic just said some bad things about it on the radio here. Im bumping this yet again anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overtime Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 best show thats not the simpsons, is trigger happy tv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOVIE Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 trigger happy tv is played out..dirty sanchez is the best show in a long time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WebsterUno Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 *believe* ha! I saw a commercial for this a few days ago, and thought of this thread. this morning, I saw a TV guide saying it will premire tonight. So, I decided to bump this thread. You beat me to it Europe. It must be worth a watch if youre this hyped on it. Ill check it out, and drop a lil review tomorrow. I still havent seen H.R. puff n Stuff on TV Land.. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 i never caught this thread... didn't know this was a remake. i'll be checking it out and tell you if you're missing anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.T Boy Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 id tape them and convert them if my vcr worked. you should try downloading em on kazaa lite+? i get most american tv shows on there that i cant view here. something like this would def turn up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effyoo Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 Welcome to Kingdom Hospital Check this site out. It looks normal at first... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Europe Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 So did anyone watch this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarzAbove Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 nope but i wish i could have HDTV just to see the diff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimsøn Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 I watched it, I don't know if I like it or not though, hardly anything happened. I'll hav e to keep watching and see if it gets good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WebsterUno Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 *believe* Originally posted by Crimsøn I watched it, I don't know if I like it or not though, hardly anything happened. I'll hav e to keep watching and see if it gets good. I did too. I feel the same way about it. I missed about 20 mins of the second half. It got off to a very slow start. I forced myself to watch it, hoping that somethign cool would happen. I do have some questions... 1. the two retarded kids, whats up with them??? 2. Whats up with that weird ant-eater thing? 3. Did anyone die? I missed the last bit. Im guessing the og version was better. This was ho-hum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAustin Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 I just happened to turn it on last night as well. I also don't quite have an opinion yet. I figure the next episode is what will make or break my opinion on it. It looked interesting though. edit: oh yea...able to security, able to security. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 weak sauce! i watched the first hour.. but wasn't interested enough to watch the 2nd... maybe it'll be better when its only an hour long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WebsterUno Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 *believe* Originally posted by nomadawhat weak sauce! haha...that was my first thought after the first hour. I went and blazed a doobie, hoping it would make it better... :nope: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Europe Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 Damn, sounds like this remake is a step backwards. Oh well, I just copped the DVD collected edition of the original series, must watch soon.... PS Webster, the two retards act like a kind of oracle in the og series, they talk about whats going on in the hospital and they know way more than anyone. They also ask mysterious questions that are solved as the series moves along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WebsterUno Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 *believe* Ahhhh...thats the impression I was getting. (about the retarded kids.) Like I said, I bet the O.G. version is better. They usually are. Im going to check out the next episode, hopefully it gets better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 If Stephen King remade/made it it is going to suck ass balls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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