Spitting Image spawn to hit UK screens.

[afleitch]

The bastard spawn of Spitting Image starts in April.



Called 'Headcases'

Except latex puppetry is replaced with CGI, which is increasingly cheaper to use. Naturally like Spitting Image it will be limited to the voices the voice artists can actually mimic. The outline from the show shows some plagiarism of Private Eye coupled with cliches (Gordon as dour penny pinching Scot and Cameron as a toff) I'll watch it and if I like it then thats a plus.

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Sad to not see the return of the brilliantly made puppets, doubt this will be any good, but I'll watch it for sure.

[afleitch]

Sad to not see the return of the brilliantly made puppets, doubt this will be any good, but I'll watch it for sure.

I can see market for it if is good. Politics has became intersting of late and satirising a government on a downward trend is probably the best time to do it (1997-2002/2003 was a black hole for satire, Messrs Bremner, Bird and Fortune aside)

[Silent Hunter]

This is a TV thing, right.

[afleitch]

This is a TV thing, right.

Yes. ITV, Sundays.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

satirising a government on a downward trend is probably the best time to do it

I don't know; most political satire from the late '70's is dreadful.

[afleitch]

satirising a government on a downward trend is probably the best time to do it

I don't know; most political satire from the late '70's is dreadful.

True. Probably more to do with the fact that satire itself was pretty much obsolete. TWTWTW, Peter Cook et all was a distant memory (and the had all bunkered down at the Private Eye) and the best we could do was Mike Yarwood (radio aside - satire always works better on there as radio comedy has to engage with the brain ) 'Not the Nine O' Clock news had good elements of satire in it at the turn of the decade and Spitting Image of course built on that. However with Rory Bremner going out on his own and HIGNFY starting up in 1990 with the Private Eye-Spitting Image team it took most of the sting out of Spitting Image which became more celeb focused.

This new one will be the same (a bit like 2D-TV I imagine) but hopefully it doesn't get too up it's own ass.

[Hash]

Sounds amusing. But nothing can be better than Les Guignols!

[Јas]

The animation seem to strongly resemble The Folks on the Hill, I only hope the comedy is of ahigher standard.

[afleitch]

First episode just finished.

Rather hit and miss...then again was Spitting Image. It has some potential though, though it really needs to keep up to date. As expected Brown's Number 10 was a dour Dikensian office and Cameron was based in a posh school. Some cheap shots on the same old trashed celebs. Screw them, give us Nick Clegg

[Silent Hunter]

Has potential, true. Relies a tad too much on vulgarity and needs some work- especially on Wills and Harry.