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Characters from Headcases. From left to right: Vladimir Putin, President Ahmadinejad, Trevor McDonald, Pete Doherty, Piers Morgan, Victoria Beckham, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, David Beckham, Prince William, Tom Cruise, Prince Harry, Dame Helen Mirren. Image credit: Red Vision.

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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  (ITV1)
Episodes:
8 (1 series)
Starring:
Adam Longworth, Rory Bremner, Renton 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, Dan 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, we welcome this successor to Spitting Image and 2DTV and hope it will return for a second series. This seems unlikely though as ITV seemed to lose interest in it towards the end of its run and shunted the last few episodes about.