http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/06/rob-corddry-web-series-childrens-hospital-hits-adult-swim.html
June 16, 2010
Rob Corddry’s dressed in scrubs, examining young patients and cracking wise because he believes in the “healing power of laughter.” It doesn’t help, though, that his character is wearing creepy clown makeup and telling jokes that are completely age-inappropriate. Oh yeah, and he’s incompetent.
Welcome to “Childrens Hospital,” a web hit that’s looking for success on TV. If it succeeds, it’ll be one of the few that’s ever made the transition at a time when more and more well-known actors — Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Justine Bateman and Kenan Thompson among them — are creating and starring in content for the Internet.
Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim has picked up “Childrens Hospital” for its Sunday night block, giving it a strong “Family Guy” lead-in and already ordering scripts for a second season. It premieres July 11.
Mike Lazzo, head of Adult Swim, said he’d found the series on the TheWB.com, a sister Time Warner division, and was “startled beyond belief at this network-quality sitcom on the Web,” he said. “We just had to have it.”