Brass Eye
Series and Special

Distributed by
VCI

Cert:

Cat.no: VCD 0217

Running time: 167 minutes

Year: 1997

Pressing: 2002

Region(s): 2, PAL

Chapters: 56 plus extras

Sound: Dolby Stereo

Languages: English

Subtitles: None

Fullscreen: 4:3; Widescreen: 16:9

16:9-enhanced: Yes

Macrovision: Yes

Disc Format: DVD 9

Price: £19.99

Extras: Commentary for "Drugs" episode, deleted scenes, trailers, Sound bin

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Director:

Michael Cumming

Producers:

Caroline Leddy and Christopher Morris

Writer:

Christopher Morris

Music:

Jonathan Whitehead and Christopher Morris

Cast:

Christopher Morris, Barbara Durkin, Kevin Eldon, Mark Heap, Simon Pegg, Gina McKee, Doon Mackichan, Claire Skinner

"You haven't got a clue have you...
But you will do - if you watch for thirty minutes!"

Brass Eye, created by Christopher Morris, is the TV show many called to be banned because it was depraved, disgusting and offensive. Of course, that was all by people who'd never actually seen it including politicians aplenty.

It also poked fun at many celebrities, but only because it was showing them up for the media-manipulating whores that they are. Episodes like last year's one-off special, Paedogeddon, weren't having a go at the touchy subject itself, but at the media's treatment of the subject and the fact that C-list celebs will readily appear on TV to talk about a subject without doing any advance research and thus ending up looking very foolish indeed when they're shown up on a programme like this. As an example of the media going overboard on a subject, as I type this review The Sun have just offered £100,000 in relation to a missing schoolgirl called Milly. While I have every sympathy for the parents, around 2,000 children go missing every week so why are they concentrating on just the one for weeks on end (answer: because she has a media-friendly face and background) and they're also causing the parents anguish by brazenly printing headlines like "Milly: Body Found" before a post-mortem was been done on the body found in the lake which turned out to be an old woman anyway.

Guests invited to talk about how the British Isles have become the Paedophisles include Dr Neil Fox likening crabs to paedophiles, concluding "It's a scientific fact... There's no real evidence for it, but it is a scientific fact.", Richard Blackwood offering the phrase "If you think kiddie porn is funny, you should have a good laugh", athelete-turned-member of parliament Sebastian Coe holding up "before" and "after" photos of a paedophile when it's actually 80s pop duo Hall & Oates, Conservative MP Gerald Howarth, the Child Protection Group Chairman, playing a song that goes "Keep away from the guy with the funny eye, keep away from the funny-eyed guy", Syd Rapson MP talking about "Trust-Me Trousers", Kate Thornton on about paedophile computer games nicknamed "H.O.E.C.S." and, finally, once-a-hitmaker Phil Collins talking "Nonce Sense".

Other guests taken for a fool in the main series include Darkus Howe who is called a "cocoa-shunter", "Mad" Frankie Fraser asked his opinion on Noel Edmonds shooting dead Clive Anderson, animal rights campaigner and ex-comedy writer Carla Lane and ex-Baywatch star Alexandra Paul expressing their disgust for Carla the elephant who has got her trunk stuffed up her own anus and is starting to digest herself, plus comedian Bernard Manning talking about 'Cake', which he declares "is a made-up drug". Of course it's made up - it doesn't exist!