Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~30 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 6 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth's Darkplace?
- parody
- dark comedy
- hospital
- spoof
- horror spoof
- 1980s
- horror
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Kim Noble
- Stephen Merchant
- Julian Barratt
- Noel Fielding
- Jonathan Edwards Young
- Matt Green
- Graham Linehan
- Sarah Kants
- Lydia Fox
- Lawrence Michelowski
- Spencer Brown
- Directed
- Richard Ayoade
- Created
- Billy Brown, Richard Ayoade, Matthew Holness
- Written
- Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade
Production
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 · 189 ratings
- Network & studio
- Channel 4, Channel 4 Television, Avalon Television
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
