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Thjey've cast The League's Reece Shearsmith in the lead as Doctor Flynn and it's said to be </FONT></div> <div> 'Scrubs meets Cardiac meets MASH'.</div> <div>  Here are some of the first pictures from it and a summery.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0f3ff680.gif" border=0 width="255" height="360" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Summery</B></div> <bR> <div> TLC is a jet black comedy with a surreal and off beat perspective on the state of modern medicine.</div> <bR> <div> TLC follows the fortunes of Junior Doctor Flynn, a hard-pressed, stressed-out, wide-eyed, catholic junior doctor. This is his first job after qualifying and he is finding the reality of being a doctor with the responsibility it entails a rude awakening into his worst nightmare. Helping or hindering him on his way is the clued-up semi-cynical Dr. Noble, a Registrar, who's been at the hospital longer than Flynn and is the voice of semi-dubious wisdom. The South Middlesex Hospital in which Dr Flynn begins his professional career is a place of perpetual night. Rats and crocodiles roam the wards and the only drug which matters in this hospital is coffee.</div> <bR> <div> Flynn, an inhibited, uptight, insecure neurotic, constantly suffering from lack of sleep and catholic guilt, finds his own personality problems nothing compared to the range of personality disorders around him. And of course the patients are sick as well.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0f468130.gif" border=0 width="360" height="275" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>From The Radio Times</U></B></div> <bR> <div> "Imagine a cross between Scrubs and Cardiac Arrest, with a helping of MASH thrown in, and you'll start to get some idea of the bleak humour of the cheerily named TLC (Monday BBC2).</div> <div> Set in an understaffed NHS hospital, TLC follows a juniour medic, Dr Flynn, played by The League Of Gentlemen's Reece Shearsmith, who's thrown in at the deep end with only the mischievious 'advice' of registrar Dr Noble (Alexander Armstrong) to keep him afloat.</div> <div> Written by Weakest Link creator Dr Fintan Coyle (and dreamy up in the same hospital bed where he came up with that equally spooky idea), TLC makes the most of the peculiar language and practices of a hospital in 2002. Waiting lists, inspectors and 'bed blockes' (patients who just won't get better and go) are all an excuse for some rather black slapstick.</div> <div> "I enjoy the slapstick," say Shearsmith. "There are lots of good set pieces - such as when I get my balls clenched in the grip of an old woman for hours. We lose another old woman - I mistakenly stop her sleeping pills, so she just wanders off."</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TLC"><U><B> More TLC? Click Here!</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>