Phoo Action
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Phoo Action is a BBC Three 60 minute TV pilot,[1] one of six drama pilots that were transmitted in early 2008, and was first broadcast on 12 February 2008 at 21:00 UTC.[2] Phoo Action is based on the Jamie Hewlett-created comic strip Get the Freebies, which ran in The Face from June 1996 to June 1997.[3] It stars Jaime Winstone as Whitey Action, Carl Weathers as Police Chief Benjamin "Ben" Benson and Eddie Shin as Terry Phoo.
Phoo Action | |
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Genre | Comedy-drama |
Created by | Jamie Hewlett Mat Wakeham |
Directed by | Euros Lyn |
Starring | Jaime Winstone Eddie Shin Carl Weathers |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original languages | English Cantonese |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Three |
Audience figures were reported at 232,000, 105,000 fewer than the average for the time slot, with a proportionately lower audience share.[4]
A six-part series was commissioned to begin shooting later in 2008 for broadcast in 2009.[5] However, just before production was due to begin the BBC announced that the series was cancelled.[6]
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.
The screen adaptation was written by Matthew Enriquez Wakeham,[7] Jessica Hynes and Peter Martin,[8] and directed by Euros Lyn.
Production began in September 2007 at a number of Glasgow locations. Some scenes were shot inside the main studio at BBC Scotland's Pacific Quay Studios.