Director: Phil Ox
Script: James Bachman, Mark Evans, Mackenzie Crook, Isabelle Dubernet,
Eric Fuhrer, David Quantick
Production Design: Tim Sykes
Voices: Jerry Hall, Ruby Wax, Kevin Eldon, Morwenna Banks, Matt Lucas, Simon Greenall, Mackenzie Crook
Created by: Isabelle Dubernet, Eric Fuhrer, Phil Ox
Producer: Heather Hampson
Executive Producers: Lucy Lumsden, Alan Marke, Phil Ox
Production: CHX Productions Ltd. in association with MJTV for BBC
Distribution: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Tel: 0044 208 433 200 0
Fax: 0044 208 749 053 8
www.bbcworldwide.com
The Pope plays hide-and-seek all day, the cardinals are corrupt, and in the catacombs slave laborers are smashing host wafers flat. Only good Father Nicholas is keeping the theocratic state from succumbing to utter chaos. Benedict XVI will hardly approve of "Popetown", but fans of "South Park" will surely relish it. The anarchic humor of the British-French animation series defies all taboos. Facing the gridlock of reforms in the Catholic Church, "Popetown" also blazes the trail in both the emancipation of women in the church and in the recognition of other faiths, for Jewish actress and author Ruby Wax is voice acting as the Pope.