Directors: Henry Trotter, Chris Waitt
Script: Henry Trotter, Chris Waitt
Photography: Steve Tickner
Editor: Adam Windmill
Production Design: Greg Shaw
With: Mark Jeffris (Puppeteer), Brian Herring (Puppeteer)
Voice: Lewis Macleod, Chris Waitt, Henry Trotter
Producer: Jemma Rodgers
Executive Producer: Jon Plowman
Production: BBC in co-production with Yummo Productions
Distribution: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Tel: +44 208 433 200 00
Fax: +44 208 433 211 3
www.bbc.co.uk
First Broadcast: 28.2.04, 22:30 BBC 2
Even puppets need love – or at least sex. Mervin doesn’t have either; he’s a pathological practitioner of self-abuse, blessed with a criminally low gray cell count to boot. The search for an appropriate (human) partner leads him and his friends from one debacle to the next. "Fur TV" is no-holds-barred soft-toy adult comedy – a format that clearly has its origins in a BBC ‘Greenlight’ competition where the entrants have carte blanche to ignore the usual code of
conduct of the national broadcasting institution. The permissive puppets were honored with the Pilot Award at the 2004 Golden Rose.