Phoo Action

Phoo Action
Terry Phoo & Whitey Action
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
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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.

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.