A Buddhist kung-fu crime-fighter comes to our screens in the BBC's "Phoo Action"
It's London, 2012, and the city is overcome by evil cartoon-like mutants. Only two people can save the day - a Buddhist, kung-fu cop Terry Phoo and the teenage Whitey Action, who wears a pair of magical hotpants (which actually started out as the Buddha's sacred loincloth) out of which she can take any object - usually weapons to help her fight the baddies.
The first episode saw a gang of evil mutants (one with a basketball for a head) kill the Queen and then kidnap William and Harry. The basket ball-headed mutant then places himself on the Throne.
So it's left with Phoo and Action to save the day....
This is the BBC's "Phoo Action", which hit our screen on BBC3 on 12th february....
Phoo Action is a BBC Three 60 minute TV pilot, one of six new drama pilots that will transmit in early 2008, and was first broadcast on February 12, 2008 at 21:00 UTC, Phoo Action is based on the Jamie Hewlett-created strip 'Get The Freebies' which ran in The Face (magazine) from June 1996 to June 1997. It stars Jaime Winstone as Whitey Action, Carl Weathers as Police Chief Benjamin 'Ben' Benson and Eddie Shin as Terry Phoo.
The show is set from the perspective of the disaffected teenage female protagonist, Whitey Action, who joins together with tough guy kung-fu cop Terry Phoo to form a dubious crime-fighting duo who thwart many mutant miscreants of The Freebies Gang on the streets of London in 2012.
Whitey Action is daughter of Ben Benson, the native New Yorker Chief of the London police. When the Queen is killed by a gang of mutants, known as The Freebies, Whitey guesses they are behind the murder while her father's forces focus their attentions on a single 'a mutant insurgent' suspect. Terry Phoo, a highly trained combat cop from the Hong Kong JKD police force is called in by Benson's superior, Lord Rothwell, as he is supposedly an expert at fighting mutants. However, his investigative skills leave much to be desired..
The Freebies are castigated by a mysterious group of sinister characters known as the Star Chamber for killing the Queen as they were supposed to mutate her not murder her. The Star Chamber give the Freebies one last chance, demanding that William is mutated before he is crowned. While at a party, in the Freebies nightclub, Whitey sees Princes, William and Harry, being led off by the Freebies, and she causes a big scene, preventing them being captured, but getting herself arrested by Terry Phoo. Convincing him that she is a special agent, he takes her to his hotel room, where, while looking for chocolate, she finds a case containing 'the Buddha's loincloth' that transforms into a pair of hotpants, which she immediately tries on. Phoo is rather shocked by this, especially when she pulls a giant chocolate egg out of them and the legend of a 'Chosen One' who is destined to use their power is revealed. Whitey can pull anything she desires from the pants and Terry decides this means that she is the Chosen One.
Together Phoo and Action save the Princes from the evil plot to mutate them, and the subsequent plot to set the lead mutant, Jimmy Freebie, on the throne. The story ends, however, with William beginning to mutate as he is crowned, the Star Chamber seem to have won this battle despite the Freebies bungling and Phoo Action's best efforts.
EPISODE ONE PLOT
To give you a quick run-down of the setting and plot, we're in London, 2012 (and one step to the left), and the hour started with the storming of Buckingham Palace - and semi-accidental assassination of the Queen - by a bunch of... freaks is probably the best word to evoke a visual image, but we'll go with the police's favoured term 'filthy mutant insurrectionists'. The father of our heroine (who, as Paul has pointed out, is played by the man who played Apollo Creed in the Rocky films), is head of the police, and so is set on the mutants' trail, hopefully apprehending them before they reach the princes Wills and Harry. But it quickly becomes clear that Whitey - the aforementioned heroine - has some of the brains that her father lacks. She's smart, sassy and bored, and is clearly destined for something big.
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, we meet Terry Phoo - an ass-kicking Buddhist law enforcement officer, who has been drafted in to help with the investigation. He takes with him to London Buddha's loincloth, which will be worn and used only by The Chosen One. Now who might that be, I wonder...?
The mutants, or Freebies as they're known, decide to throw a party for the Princes (they know their target, clearly), where they hope to capture them, and turn them into 'one of them', so that Britain will have mutant leaders. In Britain 2012 and one step to the left, Prince Charles is notable by his absence, I should mention. A quick dance routine to CCS later (dance routines are obligatory for all things 'quirky', of course) and Whitey and Phoo have met, and found a kindred spirit in one another. Before long they're bringing down the mutant traitors - with Whitey wearing Buddha's hotpants - on their own.
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It's London, 2012, and the city is overcome by evil cartoon-like mutants. Only two people can save the day - a Buddhist, kung-fu cop Terry Phoo and the teenage Whitey Action, who wears a pair of magical hotpants (which actually started out as the Buddha's sacred loincloth) out of which she can take any object - usually weapons to help her fight the baddies.
The first episode saw a gang of evil mutants (one with a basketball for a head) kill the Queen and then kidnap William and Harry. The basket ball-headed mutant then places himself on the Throne.
So it's left with Phoo and Action to save the day....
This is the BBC's "Phoo Action", which hit our screen on BBC3 on 12th february....
Phoo Action is a BBC Three 60 minute TV pilot, one of six new drama pilots that will transmit in early 2008, and was first broadcast on February 12, 2008 at 21:00 UTC, Phoo Action is based on the Jamie Hewlett-created strip 'Get The Freebies' which ran in The Face (magazine) from June 1996 to June 1997. It stars Jaime Winstone as Whitey Action, Carl Weathers as Police Chief Benjamin 'Ben' Benson and Eddie Shin as Terry Phoo.
The show is set from the perspective of the disaffected teenage female protagonist, Whitey Action, who joins together with tough guy kung-fu cop Terry Phoo to form a dubious crime-fighting duo who thwart many mutant miscreants of The Freebies Gang on the streets of London in 2012.
Whitey Action is daughter of Ben Benson, the native New Yorker Chief of the London police. When the Queen is killed by a gang of mutants, known as The Freebies, Whitey guesses they are behind the murder while her father's forces focus their attentions on a single 'a mutant insurgent' suspect. Terry Phoo, a highly trained combat cop from the Hong Kong JKD police force is called in by Benson's superior, Lord Rothwell, as he is supposedly an expert at fighting mutants. However, his investigative skills leave much to be desired..
The Freebies are castigated by a mysterious group of sinister characters known as the Star Chamber for killing the Queen as they were supposed to mutate her not murder her. The Star Chamber give the Freebies one last chance, demanding that William is mutated before he is crowned. While at a party, in the Freebies nightclub, Whitey sees Princes, William and Harry, being led off by the Freebies, and she causes a big scene, preventing them being captured, but getting herself arrested by Terry Phoo. Convincing him that she is a special agent, he takes her to his hotel room, where, while looking for chocolate, she finds a case containing 'the Buddha's loincloth' that transforms into a pair of hotpants, which she immediately tries on. Phoo is rather shocked by this, especially when she pulls a giant chocolate egg out of them and the legend of a 'Chosen One' who is destined to use their power is revealed. Whitey can pull anything she desires from the pants and Terry decides this means that she is the Chosen One.
Together Phoo and Action save the Princes from the evil plot to mutate them, and the subsequent plot to set the lead mutant, Jimmy Freebie, on the throne. The story ends, however, with William beginning to mutate as he is crowned, the Star Chamber seem to have won this battle despite the Freebies bungling and Phoo Action's best efforts.
EPISODE ONE PLOT
To give you a quick run-down of the setting and plot, we're in London, 2012 (and one step to the left), and the hour started with the storming of Buckingham Palace - and semi-accidental assassination of the Queen - by a bunch of... freaks is probably the best word to evoke a visual image, but we'll go with the police's favoured term 'filthy mutant insurrectionists'. The father of our heroine (who, as Paul has pointed out, is played by the man who played Apollo Creed in the Rocky films), is head of the police, and so is set on the mutants' trail, hopefully apprehending them before they reach the princes Wills and Harry. But it quickly becomes clear that Whitey - the aforementioned heroine - has some of the brains that her father lacks. She's smart, sassy and bored, and is clearly destined for something big.
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, we meet Terry Phoo - an ass-kicking Buddhist law enforcement officer, who has been drafted in to help with the investigation. He takes with him to London Buddha's loincloth, which will be worn and used only by The Chosen One. Now who might that be, I wonder...?
The mutants, or Freebies as they're known, decide to throw a party for the Princes (they know their target, clearly), where they hope to capture them, and turn them into 'one of them', so that Britain will have mutant leaders. In Britain 2012 and one step to the left, Prince Charles is notable by his absence, I should mention. A quick dance routine to CCS later (dance routines are obligatory for all things 'quirky', of course) and Whitey and Phoo have met, and found a kindred spirit in one another. Before long they're bringing down the mutant traitors - with Whitey wearing Buddha's hotpants - on their own.
wikipedia.org
http://www.tvscoop.tv