tlc(2002)

TLC is a darkly surreal British sitcom created by Fintan Coyle set in the fictional South Middlesex NHS hospital, where coffee is currency and dysfunction runs deep. Dr Laurence Flynn arrives fresh from medical school—having failed his finals—for his first job, only to find himself the staff scapegoat, constantly called upon to revive the dead. He must navigate not only demanding patients but a gallery of unhinged colleagues: an ex-surgeon turned hospital chaplain and a German theatre assistant with questionable proclivities. The show trades in absurdist humour and institutional chaos, never revealing what TLC actually stands for, though it's likely a sardonic nod to "tender loving care"—or perhaps its opposite, "total lack of concern." A pitch-black comedy about the madness lurking behind hospital walls.