Retro-futuristic Comedy Series, Space Hospital, Launches Second Season

Dec. 3, 2009 - PRLog -- Space Hospital, created by Second City Conservatory alumni Sigurd Ueland and Robert Poe and produced by Susan Stoebner, officially launches its second season with the release of “Confessions in Purgatory” and “The Great Ape Race.”  Episodes are released through the show’s YouTube (www.youtube.com/spacehospital) and FunnyorDie (www.funnyordie.com/spacehospital) channels and on its website.  New content will be released monthly.  

Space Hospital is a retro-futuristic, sci-fi soap opera that chronicles the adventures of the doctors and nurses stuck aboard a mobile hospital in deep space.  The show is a pastiche of styles ranging from film serials to classic TV, wrapped in a contemporary mash-up design to deliver analog comedy in a digital age.  Storylines unfold through a unique combination of narrative episodes, PSAs and faux commercials.

An early concept for the series came from a sketch Ueland and Poe wrote in a class with Steve Carrell.  “Astronaut Reg and Action Billy” explored two characters bearing witness to the end of an era that had glorified an imagined space age and had given them a reason to exist.  That kernel of an idea evolved into Space Hospital, which combines digital collage and live action along with puppet-like robots, handmade props and studio models designed and built by Poe.  (http://s746.photobucket.com/albums/xx108/spacehospital/) Though the saturated color palette and hand-crafted sets may say "Sid and Marty Krofft," the dark undertones and absurd situations tell a more satirical tale of the future.

Season I provided a period of experimentation in which the cast and creators explored the tone, the characters and the narrative style of the show.  Season II, however, has the crew of Space Hospital going rogue on a more urgent mission to save their jobs – and possibly their lives – leading them on a series of trans-galactic escapades en route to Re-Earth.

About Space Hospital
Space Hospital was created by Second City Conservatory alumni Sigurd Ueland and Robert Poe and is produced by Susan Stoebner whose feature Hard Pill currently airs on Logo.  Read more about the world and its creators on the website, www.spacehospital.tv, where you can also download your very own Space Hospital i.d. badge (everyone’s status is expendable – even ours) and get up to speed on Season I with the handy Episode Guide.

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Space Hospital produces a retro-futuristic, sci-fi web series that takes its inspiration from classic TV and film serials. It is available through YouTube, FunnyorDie or www.spacehospital.tv.