{"id":261,"date":"2008-04-04T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T23:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/mtv-to-show-more-fur\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T23:25:14","slug":"mtv-to-show-more-fur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/04\/mtv-to-show-more-fur\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV to Show More Fur"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Variety<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MTV grooms ‘Fur TV’<\/h1>\n

Warp Films moves to tube with warped puppets<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0<\/span>DOMINIC SCHREIBER<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

MTV has picked up “Fur TV,” an adult comedy series about a group of foulmouthed, sex-mad puppets, made by Warp Films, the U.K. shingle behind BAFTA-winning feature “This Is England.”
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Skein is Warp’s first move into TV. Created by filmmakers Chris Waitt and Henry Trotter, “Fur TV” centers around three puppets who share a flat in the human world and spend their time drinking, fighting and trying to chat up girls.<\/p>\n

“I can’t imagine any other channels having the guts to commission a concept like ‘Fur TV,’\u00a0” said Heather Jones, executive VP content and creative, at MTV Networks U.K. “It’s fresh, funny and outrageous and will make perfect late night TV.”<\/p>\n

Set to launch on MTV One in the U.K. on a Sunday night slot on April 27, theseries started out as a short film, which won a BBC Greenlight Award for new comedy in 2003 and a Golden Rose for best pilot in 2004. It aired on BBC2 in 2004.<\/p>\n

When Warp producer Mary Burke came across the short, she approached Waitt about making a feature-length version, but, by then, the project had already been set up at MTV.<\/p>\n

Last year, Waitt directed his first film for Warp, the feature documentary “A Complete History of My Sexual Failures,” which recently screened at Sundance. His other credits include the Channel 4 short “The Naked Rambler.”<\/p>\n

Based in Sheffield, in the north of England, studio’s other recent releases include thriller “Donkey Punch,” which also premiered at this year’s Sundance, and Paddy Considine’s short “Dog Altogether.”<\/p>\n

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