Facejacker

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Facejacker
Facejacker.jpg
Directed by Ed Tracy
Kayvan Novak
Starring Kayvan Novak
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes11
Production
Running time23 min per episode (1 Advert Break)
Production companies Film4
Hat Trick Productions
Original release
Network Channel 4
Release16 April 2010 (2010-04-16) 
1 May 2012 (2012-05-01)
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Facejacker is a Channel 4 comedy series which started on 16 April 2010. It follows the similar show Fonejacker . Kayvan Novak adopts various disguises (with the aid of prosthetics), including several characters heard in Fonejacker. To promote the show, Novak appeared at Channel 4's Comedy Gala as Terry Tibbs on 5 April.

Contents

Series 2 finished filming in July 2011 and premiered on 27 March 2012. The series concluded on 1 May 2012. [1] [2] Novak planned to create a film based on the show's characters, and was in talks with Film4 and Hat Trick Productions. [3]

Characters

Voices

The Fonejacker voices characters that are heard, but not seen. He himself is seen performing the voices, usually hidden around the corner from the machine he is voicing. He voices Automated Machine, Mr. Providings, Janec, and other characters as part of the audio tour. He also adopts a Northern Irish accent for the scenes in 'Moira's Drive-through'. [4]

App

On 7 March 2012, the Facejacker app was launched onto the iTunes store at the price of £1.49. On the app there is a sound board for various characters from the show, exclusive videos and other extra content. The app was launched around the same time as the second series was aired and all the content on the app is from the second series of the show. [5]

Episodes

Series 1 (2010)

EpisodeInformationAir date
1Terry Tibbs uses his selling techniques to sell exercise equipment to the unsuspecting crew and viewers of Price-Drop TV.16 April 2010
2Terry Tibbs hosts an evening for the popular Channel 4 programme Come Dine with Me . Brian Badonde takes on an art teacher, in a naked woman painting challenge, in an art class documentary.23 April 2010
3Terry Tibbs visits a dating agency to get some tips on how to relate to women more successfully, while Dufrais is allowed access to the set of N-Dubz' music video shoot.30 April 2010
4Budding entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to Terry Tibbs in his new TV show Lizard's Lair (A parody of the show "Dragon's Den"), while Augustus Kwembe charms and confuses the tourists disguised as a Beefeater outside the Tower of London and the Fonejacker gives audio tours of Cambridge.7 May 2010
5Brian Badonde gets himself into a rap battle with a street youth, and Terry Tibbs becomes the Secret Millionaire while the Fonejacker traps a man in a lift.14 May 2010

Series 2 (2012)

The second series premiered on 27 March 2012. [1] [2] It is set in the UK and USA.

EpisodeInformationAir date
1The organisers of a beauty pageant in Philadelphia are in for a surprise when Terry Tibbs joins them as a judge. In the UK, Augustine Kwembe (Augustus's oversexed twin sister) poses as a minicab driver inspector to groom unsuspecting male candidates. Meanwhile, the Fonejacker takes over a UGO self-service checkout, causing a lot of inconvenience to shoppers.27 March 2012
2

Dufrais Constantinople gets the chance to spend the day behind the scenes at a baseball game in LA with three other competition winners. New character Ray Fakadakis, who has recently been released from prison, offers career advice to school leavers. Augustus, in the guise of a river patrol officer, issues fines and extracts credit card details from fishermen and boatmen. Brian has a severe reaction to cheese in a gourmet food shop in LA.

3 April 2012
3Dufrais visits the locations from Rocky in Philadelphia via a local bus tour. The Fonejacker takes over the GPS system of a special car for tourists in San Francisco, and Brian has a one-on-one poetry lesson in New York City. Back in London, Augustus tries to extract credit card details from members of the public as they try to rent "Boris bikes".10 April 2012
4

Terry Tibbs hosts his own Jerry Springer -style chat show in America with his son Lionel. Dufrais wins a visit to the set of a glamour calendar photo shoot featuring "girls with guns" in LA, while Brian gets a lesson in hip hop from three rappers on Venice Beach. In London, Augustine is disguised as a lollipop lady at Abbey Road, helping tourists recreate the famous Beatles album cover by stopping traffic, then trying to charge them a ridiculously high fee.

17 April 2012
5Brian Badonde visits Pittsburgh, the birthplace of his hero Andy Warhol, to make a documentary about Warhol. Dufrais wins a visit to the set of a Star Wars porn parody in LA. Ray Fakadakis continues to give career advice to school leavers. French fast food photographer Zulfi visits an ice cream parlour to photograph their specialities.24 April 2012
6Terry Tibbs launches his own American version of The Apprentice entitled The Apprentibbs in a bid to find a new business partner, but the search is undermined by Patrick, another Facejacker character. The Fonejacker hijacks an American fast food drive-thru, much to the frustration of the customers, and Brian Badonde bids farewell to America with a final fling at an art gallery.1 May 2012

Spin-off

On 16 August 2012 as part of Channel 4's Funny Fortnight, Novak in his real-life guise of Terry Tibbs hosted his own chat show titled Verry Terry.

The format was that of a chat show with a live audience present, with Mickey Rourke and Anthea Turner as guests. Terry's son as seen in the Facejacker series made an appearance, alongside for the first time his father being seen on a breathing mask in a wheelchair.

The episode was a pilot and was not commissioned as a series.

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