tlc

Overview

Commedia

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'.

Cast & crew

Dr Laurence FlynnReece Shearsmith

Dr Stephen NobleAlexander Armstrong

Mr Benedict RonRichard Griffiths

Nurse Judy ConwayGeorgia Mackenzie

Sister Charity HopeLlewella Gideon

The Wheelchair ManMartin Trenaman

Nurse Terry CheungBenedict Wong

Hospital ChaplainTim Brooke-Taylor

GasmanErich Redman

Sid PotterTom Watt

Mr CopperfieldPip Torrens

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Mrs CopperfieldCharlotte McDougall

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The ExaminerDavid Savile

IVF DoctorPooja Kumar

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IVF PatientAnn Wenn

Medical StudentSan Shella

Medical StudentChris Geere

Medical StudentNaomi Taylor

• Geoff Posner · Director
• Fintan Coyle · Writer