Trapped
- Studio
- Channel X Productions (CHX Productions), Moi J'Aime La Television
- Distributor
- Revolver Entertainment, Roadshow Entertainment
Synopsis
Popetown is a sitcom about office politics in the workplace... only this workplace happens to be the Vatican and the CEO is the Pope.
Sister Penelope is the Popetown TV reporter, while Sister Marie is a devoted and innocent nun who too often acts before, or even without, thinking.
Popetown is a funny, satirical and bizarre take on the world of personal politics, sex and fame set in a fictional version of one of the most revered and mysterious cities in the world.
In Popetown, money, power and corruption are the name of the game, and everyone is playing. Popetown takes you into the side-splittingly surreal world of the Vatican as long-suffering, good-hearted Father Nicholas struggles to walk the narrow path of righteousness while surrounded by money-grubbing cardinals and a pogo-stick-riding infantile Pope, who is 77 years old and has all the charm of an obnoxious seven-year-old.
Sister Penelope is the Popetown TV reporter, while Sister Marie is a devoted and innocent nun who too often acts before, or even without, thinking.
Popetown is a funny, satirical and bizarre take on the world of personal politics, sex and fame set in a fictional version of one of the most revered and mysterious cities in the world.
In Popetown, money, power and corruption are the name of the game, and everyone is playing. Popetown takes you into the side-splittingly surreal world of the Vatican as long-suffering, good-hearted Father Nicholas struggles to walk the narrow path of righteousness while surrounded by money-grubbing cardinals and a pogo-stick-riding infantile Pope, who is 77 years old and has all the charm of an obnoxious seven-year-old.
Characters
The Pope, Cardinal One, Cardinal Two, Cardinal Three, Sister Marie, Sister Penelope, Father Nicholas, Drawing Boy, Priest
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Phil Ox
- First Assistant Director
- Lee Trevor
- Second Assistant Director
- Guy de Glanville
Producing
- Producer
- Heather Hampson
- Associate Producer
- Stacy Herbert
- Executive Producers
- Lucy Lumsden, Alan Marke, Phil Ox
- Line Producer
- Rebecca Ferrand
Writing
Voices
- Voice
- Ruby Wax (The Pope), Matt Lucas (Cardinal One), Kevin Eldon (Cardinal Two), Simon Greenall (Cardinal Three), Morwenna Banks (Sister Marie), Jerry Hall (Sister Penelope), Bob Mortimer (Father Nicholas), Rhys Thomas (Drawing Boy), Ben Miller (Priest [Live-Action Scenes]), Mackenzie Crook
Music
- Music
- Julian Maurice Moore
Editing
- Editor
- Sarah Chartier
Crew
- Cinematography
- Terence Bulley
- Casting
- Carrie Hilton
- Production Design
- Tim Sykes
- Art Direction
- Jack Wade
- Costume Design
- Rebecca Rich
- Hair Designer
- Sallie Adams
- Makeup Designer
- Sallie Adams
- Sound Recordist
- David Harcombe
- Boom Operator
- Ian Sands
- Script Supervisor
- Sabine Charrin
- Focus Puller
- Philippe Cointepas
- Floor Runner
- Nina Cunningham
- Gaffer
- Roy Furness
- Production Coordinator
- Judith Hay
- Clapper Loader
- Karl Hui
- Production Accountant
- David Smith
Production notes
Originally commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation, this 10-episode series was not shown on BBC Three as initially planned.
Following letters of protest from thousands of Catholics, the channel's controller, Stuart Murphy, announced that the show was being pulled.
Popetown's comic impact did "not outweigh the potential offence it will cause," Murphy said. "There is a fine judgement line in comedy between the scurrilously funny and the offensive."
Nonetheless, the series was released in Britain on DVD. It was first broadcast on youth-oriented channel C4 in New Zealand despite protests by Catholics there.
Following letters of protest from thousands of Catholics, the channel's controller, Stuart Murphy, announced that the show was being pulled.
Popetown's comic impact did "not outweigh the potential offence it will cause," Murphy said. "There is a fine judgement line in comedy between the scurrilously funny and the offensive."
Nonetheless, the series was released in Britain on DVD. It was first broadcast on youth-oriented channel C4 in New Zealand despite protests by Catholics there.