SPOILERS In 2001, with a plan to fill the neesh left by the cancellation of "Spitting Image" in 1996, ITV began showing a cartoon series called "2DTV". Originally hilarious, the series continued to evolve. Sadly though that evolution has not always been for the best with bad choices being made in terms of the celebrities being covered. "2DTV" has changed from being a fresh original take on life into an excessively celebrity based inferior to alternative television shows.
When "2DTV" first started, jokes tended to be directed at celebrities like the Beckhams (Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens), Blair and Bush (both Culshaw) and the monarchy. This trend has subsided in recent times however as the series has began to change it's focus to keep with public opinion. The last series shown on television still maintained Blair and Bush, but it introduced jokes about Wayne Rooney and his fiancée, and the breast groping controversy over Arnold Schwarzenegger. Beginning to repeat the same jokes over and over again, the series gradually lost it's freshness and has eventually lost any of the wit and humour that it originally had.
Part of the decline in "2DTV" has been as a result of the thriving "Dead Ringers" on the BBC. With vocal artists Culshaw and Ravens leaving for the BBC production, the standards and humour have plummeted. As "2DTV" has lowered it's tone and lost it's style, "Dead Ringers" has thrived and evolved into something rather wonderful.
On the animation, even the old favourite of George Bush has lost his strength. Originally based around the concept that he is an idiot, the series would insult him in ways so extreme, that one advert for the show was even banned from television. In later series though, this style has gone off the boil as the world has accepted the view of Bush as an idiot and are more concerned about him blowing up the world than being thick.
"2DTV" was genius when it first started. Funny and witty, it provided decent entertainment when you were lucky enough to catch it (ITV never really giving it a proper screening time until too late), and never failed to make you laugh. In recent times though, this animation has self destructed. With main vocal artists leaving and the scripts getting progressively worse, the show has lost all of it's dignity and should have stopped a few years ago. Yet another example of a television programme going on for too long.
When "2DTV" first started, jokes tended to be directed at celebrities like the Beckhams (Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens), Blair and Bush (both Culshaw) and the monarchy. This trend has subsided in recent times however as the series has began to change it's focus to keep with public opinion. The last series shown on television still maintained Blair and Bush, but it introduced jokes about Wayne Rooney and his fiancée, and the breast groping controversy over Arnold Schwarzenegger. Beginning to repeat the same jokes over and over again, the series gradually lost it's freshness and has eventually lost any of the wit and humour that it originally had.
Part of the decline in "2DTV" has been as a result of the thriving "Dead Ringers" on the BBC. With vocal artists Culshaw and Ravens leaving for the BBC production, the standards and humour have plummeted. As "2DTV" has lowered it's tone and lost it's style, "Dead Ringers" has thrived and evolved into something rather wonderful.
On the animation, even the old favourite of George Bush has lost his strength. Originally based around the concept that he is an idiot, the series would insult him in ways so extreme, that one advert for the show was even banned from television. In later series though, this style has gone off the boil as the world has accepted the view of Bush as an idiot and are more concerned about him blowing up the world than being thick.
"2DTV" was genius when it first started. Funny and witty, it provided decent entertainment when you were lucky enough to catch it (ITV never really giving it a proper screening time until too late), and never failed to make you laugh. In recent times though, this animation has self destructed. With main vocal artists leaving and the scripts getting progressively worse, the show has lost all of it's dignity and should have stopped a few years ago. Yet another example of a television programme going on for too long.