In the year 2012 , buddhist kung - fu pig squad up with teenage anarchist daughters of the administration to push supercrime ! Or , at least , that ’s the construct behind Phoo Action , a new BBC pilot conform by Doctor Who director Euros Lyn from a semi - blank out strip by Tank Girl carbon monoxide - Maker Jamie Hewlett . regulate by the sixties Batman TV show , the unpaired Buddhist - futurist series just might be the next cult attain or , if nothing else , an interesting televisual crotchet . Learn more about just what Phoo Action is and see a clip below .
adapt from Hewlett ’s 1990s stripGet the Freebies , the 60 - minute archetype follows the chronicle of Terry Phoo , buddhist kung - fu officer , and his delegation to try and save future London from the unstoppable crime rampage of superpowered defective guys the Freebies . This being Hewlett , of course , he ca n’t do it without the help of Whitey Action , reddened - haired daughter of the local Chief of Police , as toy by Weathers . It may be more than ten age since Hewlett come up with the musical theme , but he ’s apparently loving the adaptation :
It ’s exciting , it really does look large and it is so good to see the comic slip turn into a TV drama . The costume , the sets , the creatures are all really faithful to my original stuff and nonsense … [ It ’s ] a slight bit more crazy than Doctor Who but I know my Son , who are 11 and seven , will be intimate it . I really trust it will urge people .
Admittedly , the trailer looks more than a petty off - kelter thanks to music that does n’t quite fit and a mix of actors in awesome outfits , company scenes that seem taken flat from an update version of Head and glimpses of British funniness icons Terry Thomas and Les Dawson , but with a playscript co - written by one of the writer of Spaced and early reviews call it “ the cockamamie thing that ’s been on TV for age , ” and comparisons to the Banana Splits and The Young Ones , it ’s certainly something to seem out for when it premieres in the UK next Tuesday .
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