Send in the clown doctors. Late-night programmer Adult Swim has renewed Childrens Hospital for a fourth season, Cartoon Network announced Tuesday.
The satirical medical series is written by and stars Rob Corddry as a doctor who wears clown makeup and "blood"-splattered scrubs so he can practice what he calls the "healing power of laughter" at a hospital where the staff is more interested in tending to their overactive libidos than treating patients.
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Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital isn't just about hot stars — like Megan Mullally, Malin Akerman, Ken Marino, Henry Winkler and Rob Corddry — coming together to play doctor. No, it's much more than that!
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Corddry, who created the series, dishes on how the idea for the show really came to be in this exclusive video clip from the Childrens Hospital: Complete First & Second Seasons DVD release, out on Tuesday. Check it out below:
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Cartoon Network has renewed Childrens Hospital for a new 14-episode season, the network announced Friday.
The medical drama satire, which pokes fun at shows like ER and Grey's Anatomy, follows a...
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Grey's Anatomy, you got served.
The single greatest medical drama in the history of comedies debuted last night when the banana web series ...
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The transition from web series to TV could have been tough for the often-grotesque medical satire Childrens Hospital -- a show where doctors get turned on by life-threatening surgeries and saving patients takes a backseat to highly choregraphed dance numbers, among other things. Fortunately for the show's fans, it isn't going to primetime: it's going to Adult Swim, where it's freakishness will fit in just fine.
"Adult Swim has the closest thing to an outsider's sensibility," executive producer Jonathan Stern says. "We figured that was the closest we could come to being on television without actually people thinking we were on television...
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