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'Spitting Image' fans
Spitting Image to return after 24 years via BritBoxSpitting Image is returning to the screen after a 24-year absence this autumn, with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson and Donald Trump among the targets of the satirical puppet show on the streaming service BritBox.
The show, one of the signature programmes of the Thatcher era, is the first original commission to arrive on BritBox, as partners ITV and the BBC seek to boost its content amid increasing competition from new rivals such as Disney+.
The first of two new series will be available on the £5.99-a-month service this autumn, with a second to follow next year. In September, the Guardian revealed Spitting Image would be returning to TV.
The new show will lampoon famous figures including Vladimir Putin, Prince Andrew, Adele, Beyoncé, Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, James Corden and the US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. The climate change activist Greta Thunberg will be satirised as a “roving reporter giving regular weather updates”.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/mar/04/spitting-image-to-return-after-24-years-via-britbox
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