Kingdom Hospital

About Kingdom Hospital

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital is a thirteen-episode miniseries based on Lars von Trier's "The Kingdom" (aka Riget), which was developed by horror writer Stephen King in 2004 for American television. It was first aired on ABC on March 3 and was scheduled to conclude on July 15, 2004. The show airing was put on hold during NBA playoffs half way through, but resumed airing on June 24, and concluded mid-August.

The story tells of the fictional Kingdom Hospital located in Lewiston, Maine built on the site of a mill that manufactured military uniforms during the American Civil War. Previously, a hospital known as the "Old Kingdom" had been built on the site, but it burnt down. The current hospital is known as the "New Kingdom". The hospital's "turbulent" nature seems to reflect its ominous logo, a crimson stylized dagger, predicting what will come.

A psychic named Mrs. Druse has checked into the hospital numerous times and is taken by the staff to be a hypochondriac. She asks for the assistance of Dr. Hook to uncover the truth about the hospital and the mysterious spirits who haunt it — including a young girl, killed after the original fire; a teenage boy who was subjected to horrible test experiments in the Old Kingdom; and a strange animal, similar to a giant anteater, whose long snout opens up to a horrifying set of teeth.