Headcases

Headcases
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Running time	30 minutes (including adverts)
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	6 April, 2008 – present

Headcases is an ITV satirical animation show based on current affairs. It employs the same satirical style as Spitting Image and 2DTV but using 3D animation.

The programme's first series began on 6 April, 2008, and will end on 25 May 2008, airing on Sundays at 10pm.

The show includes celebrities and politicians in their animated form, taking a role in sketches including scenarios from their own topical issues. Such sketches include Amy Winehouse take part in a 'drug olympics'. She appears among many others in the show including Gordon Brown, George W. Bush, Robert Mugabe, David and Victoria Beckham, Heather Mills, Piers Morgan, Katie Price and Peter Andre, Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Clarkson and members of the Royal Family. The show's name comes from the fact that all the subjects' caricatured faces are out of scale with the rest of their bodies.

Voice artists

• Rory Bremner
• Jon Culshaw
• Lewis MacLeod
• Kayvan Novak
• Lucy Porter
• Jess Robinson
• Katy Wix

Characters

• Gordon Brown
• Jacqui Smith
• Alistair Darling
• Madonna
• David Beckham and Victoria Beckham
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• Prince Harry and Prince William
• Robert Mugabe
• Amy Winehouse
• Pete Doherty
• Heather Mills
• Tony Blair
• David Cameron
• William Hague
• Piers Morgan
• Trevor McDonald
• Helen Mirren and Judi Dench
• Kate Winslet
• George Osborne
• Peter Andre and Katie Price
• Steven Spielberg
• Ex-president Clinton

Trivia

• When Stephen Spielberg falls out the window he lets out the famous Aaaaaaah! version of the Wilhelm scream.

Posh and Becks in the USA

Victoria Beckham a big headed loud mouth with a speech disorder who's legs look to small to carry her and David Beckham who is considerably shorter than her go about their days working in America. Posh has a very bad temper and acts like she's the Queen of the household, for example when she gets something wrong eg :Saying ET instead of E.T. he always snaps back "I know that!" In the first episode she invited round Stephen Spielberg to talk about making a film about her but she scared him away with her temper, singing and forcing him to eat his Vienetta.

William and Harry, Bloody normal blokes

Prince William and Prince Harry start the sketch acting like normal people would like playing Computer games but throughout start over exaggerating "normal" like being hand fed pizza by Bodyguard's and asking for a Pheasant topping or Vodka from a Takeaway.

Old Mugabe's farm

Robert Mugabe starts by singing a pun of Old McDonald.

♫Old Mugabe had a farm. ♫

♫Zimbab, Zimbabwe. ♫

He then starts acting Racist and talking nonsense like planting Crisp's and going to the Pigpond. When he finishes he sings Old Mugabe again and walks of.

The Piers Morgan show

Piers Morgan doesn't get up to much in this instead introduces himself and gets a heavy object dropped on him eg. Anvil or a Piano.

Gordon Brown

Portrayed as a dark miserable old character Gordon has got up to many "not very exciting" things. he once got tricked into hosting a disaster of a party by Tony Blair because he wanted to be at the top of the what's hot article of the Heat (magazine).

Reception

Sam Wollaston from The Guardian gave the show a mixed review, saying that the writing was good, but the animation was "soulless". The show's debut opened with 4 million viewers, having the highest viewers of any programme for the first half of the show. However, the second half of the show was beaten by the news on BBC One.

External links

• Headcases at itv.com