St. Denis Medical

is an upcoming American mockumentary sitcom set to air on NBC. Created by Eric Ledgin (a veteran producer of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Last Man on Earth ) and Justin Spitzer (the showrunner of Superstore and a writer on The Office ), the series tracks the daily chaos of an underfunded, overworked Oregon hospital.

But what truly sets the show apart is its respect for the profession. It is not a satire of medicine itself, but rather a satire of workplace dynamics and human ego. The doctors here are competent—at least, most of the time—but they are human first. They are driven by the same insecurities, jealousies, and desires for validation that plague any office worker, only their office happens to have a trauma bay. St. Denis Medical

In the landscape of modern television, the medical drama has long held a hallowed, if somewhat exhausting, position. For decades, we have watched doctors sprint down hallways, engage in torrid romances in on-call rooms, and deliver impassioned monologues about the fragility of life while sirens wail in the background. It is a genre defined by high stakes, higher melodrama, and the ubiquitous "McDreamy" archetype. is an upcoming American mockumentary sitcom set to

Just don’t go there for a real appendectomy. Go there for the laughs. It is not a satire of medicine itself,

St. Denis Medical (NBC) is widely reviewed as a "winning" and "comforting" workplace comedy that effectively fills the void left by shows like Superstore and Parks and Recreation . Critics and audiences generally agree that while its mockumentary format is familiar, the show's strength lies in its "ace ensemble cast" and its ability to find humor in the "grim dysfunction" of an underfunded Oregon hospital.

The show is set at the fictional St. Denis Medical Center in , Oregon. Unlike the high-gloss medical dramas typical of network TV, St. Denis Medical focuses on an underfunded, struggling regional facility where staff must frequently improvise due to lack of resources. The series uses the mockumentary format—popularized by shows like The Office and Abbott Elementary —to capture the frantic, often absurd daily reality of nurses and doctors balancing life-or-death stakes with corporate bureaucracy. Cast and Characters

Whereas Scrubs used fantasy cutaways to show a doctor’s internal monologue, uses the mockumentary format to expose the broken logistics of modern medicine. Expect jokes about insurance pre-authorizations, EMR (Electronic Medical Record) software crashing, and the silent war between night shift and day shift.