Headcases
A satirical comedy series from former Spitting Image lead writer Henry Naylor. The characters are animated using ground-breaking 3D CGI
- AKA:
- CGI Britain (Working Title)
- Genre:
- Sketch Show
- Broadcast:
- 2008 (ITV)
- Episodes:
- 8 (1 series)
- Starring:
- Adam Longworth, Rory Bremner, Dan Skinner, Omid Djalili, Justin Edwards, Tom Hollander, Jess Robinson, Jon Culshaw, Lucy Porter, Lucy Montgomery, Lewis MacLeod
- Writers:
- Andy Riley, Kevin Cecil, Colin Birch, Richard Ward, Carl Carter, Tony Cooke, Kevin Day, Daniel Maier, Ged Parsons, David Quantick, Richie Webb
- Production:
- Red Vision
Each episode of Headcases focuses on topical issues from the week that was, putting a humorous spin on the worlds of celebrity, sport and politics in an attempt to make the audience realise that A-listers are human after all - and perhaps more disgraceful than we could ever imagine.
Our Review: In our eyes Headcases made an above-average entrance into the difficult world of topical satire. Each episode featured at least a couple of great sketches.
The show did have a few flaws though... some of its sketches relied on weak, lazy and old stereotypes; some of the voices didn't sound enough like the real celebrity and, the biggest problem of all, the computer animation made the comedy quite 'cold'. A fair few people have commented on this... although the computer animation is clearly very advanced, it has taken the soul out of the comedy.
Anyway, it was a welcome this successor to Spitting Image and 2DTV and hope it can return for more (there were rumours it would return for a second series with new characters including Sir Alan Sugar and Cheryl Cole, but the new episodes have still yet to materialise).
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