Interns

Interns is a Russian medical sitcom, produced by NTV-Kino. The show aired on TNT Russia channel from March 29, 2010 to February 25, 2016. Premise The sitcom follows various staff working at a hospital. The staff includes four young inexperienced medical interns, who constantly get into troublesome situations. Their mentor, Andrey Bykov, harshly and jokingly mentors them. Series overview Characters Andrey Yevgenyevich Bykov (Ivan Okhlobystin) is the sarcastic and cynic head of the therapy department, who combines some features of both Perry Cox (from Scrubs) and Dr House (from House M.D.). While he does often say that he hates being in charge of the interns, when asked to fire one he could not pick one, claiming that they were all "equally bad". At the beginning of the first season, it was mentioned multiple times that he is a recovering alcoholic (for example, when he is criticised by his best friend, Dr Kupitman, for being less fun now that he is sober in episode 1), but he has since been seen drinking, suggesting that this storyline has been dropped. His relationship with Dr Kisegach has later caused problems between him and Romanenko. Bykov is very fond of video games, which is often used for comic effect. Bykov has a 20-year-old daughter, Alisa, from his previous marriage and in the 180th episode, Bykov's son Ilya is born. Bykov is a former biker and is still known in that environment as "Lizard" (Ящер рус.); in several episodes we can see his biker-pals, like "Boar". His fetishistic love for his bike, Izolda, and a plant, Igor, sometimes proves useful to the interns in emergencies. Semyon Lobanov: He is physically big, and often intimidates people (most often his fellow intern Levin). He is often violent, having no qualms about hurting people, particularly those who annoy him. He is a former boxer (master of sports) and in one of the episodes he engages in a boxing match with his patient while the staff of the hospital make bets. Lobanov often tries to make some money on the side, indulging in somewhat illegal or morally ambiguous activities and always fails due to his irresponsibility and laziness. At the start of the show, he was the only married intern and his wife, Olga, was a lawyer (in one episode, it was mentioned that she graduated cum laude). The two of them had trouble conceiving a child, and it was revealed that Lobanov's slow-moving sperm were to blame for this.