Kerwhizz
Kerwhizz (strapline: "The Quiz with added Whizz") is a live-action animated British children's television game show which originally aired on CBeebies between 2008 and 2011. The series uses a mix of CGI and Live action, and is targeted towards four to six-year-olds. Summary. The show is moderated and presented by Kerwhizzitor (Jacob Scipio), the only regular live-action character. Three teams of two CGI characters, each comprising a human child racer and a part-living, part-mechanical animal pet, must answer five rounds of questions, each featuring a regular 2D animated animal character, to win  a choice of pod mod for their respective racing pods. In addition, one of the five rounds offer the chance to win a mystery pod mod. Each pod mod, and mystery mod is an unconventional accessory that may or may not give its user a better chance of winning the race. The teams are cheered on by three groups of live-action children dressed in the teams' colours and waving team flags, the teams also score points focused on how many questions they answered correctly. All of the questions are multiple-choice, with the answers colour-coded red, green, yellow  or blue (not coincidentally, these are the standard colours of the function buttons on TV remote controls). Once the question rounds are complete, the teams choose their pod mods, and then the teams' pods are assembled and builded around them and their respective pod mods are installed, fitted and added to their pods. The pods are then raised through the roof of the studio into the CGI race world. Each race world is a themed racing environment (the questions usually include clues to the theme) containing three, or occasionally four, zones, and each story and race comprises two, or occasionally  three laps (except in "The Deserted Desert Dash", which is a novelty race with no set route and a hidden finish line). All of the teams are likely to encounter unexpected setbacks and opportunities along the way, making the outcome of each race unpredictable, each episode ends with the winner of each race getting revealed, then some of the teams do activities based on the theme, since they didn't race, since the Kerwhizzitor saw what happened to some of the teams. Characters. Question hosts. These characters appear in the flash-animated question sequences. None of them speak, since the  questions are all read by the Kerwhizzitor. In many episodes they, or characters based on their designs, also appear in CGI form in the race world sequences, where they are much bigger than the human contestants. Reception. British psychologist Aric Sigman refers to "Kerwhizz" as a perfect example of what television makers claim is educational, despite his insistence to the contrary. Sigman goes on to say that "the phrase 'educational television' was, of course, invented by people who make television", "to me it's an oxymoron.". Lawsuit. In 2011 cartoonist Michael Mitchell sued the BBC & CBeebies, claiming that "Kerwhizz"'s  human CGI characters were based on his own designs for a proposed series called "The Bounce Bunch". The BBC & CBeebies denied these claims. In the England and Wales Patents County Court in December 2011, His Honour Judge Birss, QC found that the Kerwhizz characters did not infringe Mr Mitchell's copyright.