KING CHECKS IN HOSPITAL
The prolific scribe is putting his macabre mind to the health-care system, having penned a 15-hour miniseries for ABC titled Kingdom Hospital. It's a series focusing on "shocking and frightening tales" taking place inside a hospital that has been built on an ancient graveyard--Patch Adams this ain't.

Now, after King has dotted every "i" and crossed every "t," ABC has given the project a greenlight with casting scheduled to begin next month. The show, based on Danish director Lars von Trier TV soap series The Kingdom, will kick off January 2004 with a two-hour season premiere, followed by 13 one-hour episodes.

However, more often than not, his work is adapted by other screenwriters with mixed results. USA Network's The Dead Zone, good; NBC's Carrie remake, bad. Maybe that's why the scribe has thrown his energies into his upcoming television projects--King has also claimed to be retiring from the writing gig, but that can be taken about as seriously as Cher or Babs announcing their farewell performances.

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