Hi !

The King version isn't swiped from Von Trier. It is the american version of the danish one Trier made a couple of years ago.
Steven King just americanized it much like Bornedal's Nightwatch (with Nick Nolte).

So yeah it's Scandinavian, but it's danish !!

shineOn...:-)
Fjeder
www.shiner22.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MBaroneO@aol.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: the new stephen king show Kingdom Hospital


> In a message dated 3/4/04 3:58:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> fiatluxury@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > yeah, i was wondering if stephen hadn't swiped this
> > one entirely.  it's a scandinavian - what, Norweigan,
> > Swedish? - hospital series, right? like st. elsewhere
> > meets twin peaks, i've heard. supposed to be fabulous,
> > though i'm having a hard time getting a hold of a copy
> > (well, to be honest, that just means that Netflix
> > doesn't have it.)
> > 
> > --kelly
> 
> Hey Kelly,
> 
> I don't know if it was swiped from Lar's "The Kingdom" entirely.  You are 
> correct in saying that it was extremely Twin Peaks-ish and Swedish.
> I found the entire series on vhs for a very inexpensive price on Amazon.com.  
> I don't think it has been put out on dvd yet.
> Actually there was a "Kingdom 2" also which is not part of the above set.  It 
> was aired on Bravo a few years ago and a friend of mine taped it.  I saw it 
> and it was just as brilliant at the first
> Michael
>