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''David Tench Tonight'' was a short-lived television talk show created for Network Ten in Australia. The series featured David Tench, an animated fictional character, as host. The name "Tench" is a partial anagram created from the name Channel Ten.〔 〕 Tench conducted interviews with various "celebrities" including Pat Rafter, Nick Lachey, Ronn Moss, Nelly Furtado and Ella Hooper and future Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The 2006 season finale (episode 15) was shown on 23 November 2006. A Christmas special aired on 25 December 2006 at 10:30pm. It was reported in ''The Daily Telegraph'' on 5 April 2007 that David Tench Tonight had been axed by Network Ten.〔 〕 ==Technology== The actor behind the digital Tench was Australian actor Drew Forsythe. Tench was rendered and animated in real-time using motion capture technology. The guests were therefore able to see him and respond to him in real-time. Radio host Mick Molloy, who was a guest on the 11 October 2006 episode, clarified on his radio show ''Tough Love'' that the David Tench desk had no-one behind it and the guest spoke to a television setup behind the desk to "interact" with Tench. The character of Tench was conceived by Andrew Denton and technically designed by Australian visual effects company Animal Logic.〔〔 〕 Animal Logic used the VICON (MX40 technology ) to create David Tench. The concept of an animated talk show host was not entirely new. Hand-drawn animation was used to bring Space Ghost to life in the 1994 talk show ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''. An earlier similar gimmick was used in the British talk and music video show ''The Max Talking Headroom Show'', featuring Max Headroom. Max, however, was not computer-generated but was realised by a clever mixture of prosthetic costuming and video effects, and was also able to interact with his guests. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Tench Tonight」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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