Japhet Asher

Quick Facts

Full Name	Japhet Asher
Occupation	Cartoonist
Date Of Birth	Jan 14, 1961(1961-01-14)
Age	63
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	London
Horoscope	Capricorn

Japhet Asher Biography

Japhet Asher is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on January 14, 1961 in London, United Kingdom. Simeon Japhet, born 14 January 1961, is an English television and film producer, writer, and director. He has lived in the United States most of his life. After moving back to England, he was executive producer at CBBC Interactive, the BBC’s programming strand dedicated to children. He also produced the live-action comedy Big Babies, which is broadcast by the network.

Benjamin Svetkey reviews Liquid Television on June 14, 1991

Asher left (Colossal) in November 1995 when he was appointed executive vice- president of programming at the newly set-up Tele-TV network, a joint venture by the Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and Pacific Telesis telephone companies to provide interactive television, video on demand and internet to customers through their copper phone wires, aiming ultimately to compete with cable and satellite providers. Asher was placed in charge of producing original programming for the service, an “unenviable task”, said Tele-TV chairman-CEO Howard Stringer. However, Tele-TV failed in 1997 because of conflicts between the partner phone companies and technical difficulties regarding national co- ordination and distribution. Following this, Asher wrote for the MTV animated series Downtown in 1999 and edited stories for Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles during the same year. He wrote for the computer-animated series Pet Alien in 2005 and for the documentary film Koryo Saram – the Unreliable People two years later. Having relocated back to England, he joined the BBC in the late 2000s as the executive producer for interactive at CBBC, the organisation’s children’s strand. With Asher working as one of its executive producers, the CBBC show Big Babies was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Children’s Award in 2010 as one of the best comedies.

Despite the success of both Liquid Television and Æon Flux, Asher later came in for criticism from Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis and Butt-head, a successful animated programme initially featured on Liquid Television. Judge was being interviewed by the British magazine loaded in 1997 when the subject turned to the dislike of anything British by the title characters of Beavis and Butt-head. “You know,” Judge said, “This just now occurred to me. There was this guy called Japhet Asher who was sort of in charge of Liquid Television. … He struck me as one of these British people who come over here [to America] and people think they’re smart just because they have a British accent. … He would say things like, ‘A bit of criticism, if I may, Mike.’ I wonder if a lot of that is just down to him.”

Asher produced and wrote his first television documentary for American Broadcasting Company. It was Peace on Borrowed Time. This film aired in 1982, at 21 years of age. Asher was both a producer and a writer for the 1985 HBO documentary Soldiers in Hiding. He was a partner at the San Francisco-based studio, (Colossal) Pictures in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Asher was the creator and executive producer of Liquid Television. He was also the executive producer and writer of AEon Flux. This segment later became its own program. He was executive vice-president for programming at Tele-TV between 1995 and

1997. This joint venture of three American telephone companies, Tele-TV, failed to deliver interactive television, video-on-demand, and internet through customers’ phones lines.

Japhet Asher Net Worth

Japhet Asher is one of the richest Cartoonist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Japhet Asher 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Asher was a partner in Colossal Pictures in San Francisco, and most notably, as the creator, executive producer, and creative director for Liquid Television. Its first broadcast on MTV in 1991. Asher stated to the Los Angeles Times that they don’t want boring TV. “It’s zap free TV.” You can always switch to something else if you don’t like what you’re seeing. Wait two minutes, and you’ll be able to see another option. Wait until you see Madonna doing Express Yourself. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he explained that it was part fun house and part laboratory experiment. It’s a mixture of many different animation styles. It’s unlike any TV show before.

Asher was born in London, England. He attended Winchester College five terms before moving to San Francisco with his family. Asher graduated from New York’s Tisch School of the Arts. He worked extensively with Malcolm Clarke in the 1980s. Asher, then 21, collaborated with Clarke on Peace on Borrowed Time in 1982. Asher was credited as producer and writer. Asher was also a director on two other documentaries for HBO, directed by Clarke. The second, 1985’s Soldiers in Hiding about Vietnam veterans, was nominated to the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. However, it lost out to Broken Rainbow about the relocation of Navajo Native Americans. The television documentary Trouble on Big Mountain was Asher’s only release as a director. It was released in 1986 by San Francisco’s KQED network.

Liquid Television was described by Los Angeles Times reporter Lauren Litpon as “state-of-the-art animation … unlike anything else television has to offer”. It crammed about 15 unrelated, mostly animated segments into each half-hour slot at a vastly accelerated pace, linking them together with yet more animation. Violently and deliberately different from the rest of the TV schedule, it was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards during its four-year run, winning one, and included as one of its cartoons Æon Flux, directed by Peter Chung with Asher as an executive producer and writer. Æon Flux became a standalone series in 1992 and ran until 1995. Asher appeared as a voice actor on each of these shows, writing and performing the recurring “Psychogram” skit on Liquid Television and voicing the character “Clavius” in an episode of Æon Flux.

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Facts & Trivia

Japhet Ranked on the list of most popular Cartoonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Japhet Asher celebrates birthday on January 14 of every year.