It's for you…

What's that you say? Phone pranks are clever and funny. I agree! So you might wanna leave your schedule open next Thursday at 10pm for "Fonejacker" on Foxtel's Channel V. Some calls are depicted in a way that's been compared to Terry Gilliam's "Monty Python" work – ie. static heads with animated mouths. Images tangentially relating to keywords flash on screen during the conversation. At other times, the Fonejacker – a Persian Brit named Kayvan Novak – is shown pranking his targets in public, eg. ringing a cafe from the phone box across the road. Then there are the calls with fictional footage, such as the CCTV view of a bank heist in progress. It's interspersed with mug shots of a polite robber urgently requesting a people carrier from a minicab company operator. There are similarities to "Crank Yankers", but where that puppet-powered show is straightforward, this one's surreal. I haven't heard such inventive pranking since the Touch Tone Terrorists. Who else would pose as a Zimbabwean telephone fraud prevention officer, Detective Horace Von Khute, warning people not to be fooled by bogus calls from Detective Horace Von Khute?