Returns to British screens after a 24-year hiatus
The satirical "Spitting Image" program .. Nobody escaped criticism
Prince Harry was spotted by viewers looking in vain for a job in Los Angeles
The program was sarcastically covered in its first episode, Donald Trump.
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Boris Johnson was portrayed by the show as an idiot.
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The satirical political puppet show "Spitting Image" returned to the British screens, the day before yesterday, after a 24-year hiatus. It was shown on British television between 1984 and 1996, and attracted at its peak 15 million viewers every evening.
The return program chose 100 characters represented by the new latex dolls, and among the politicians who switched dolls of Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg, Prince Harry and his wife Megan Markle, Boris Johnson, Greta Thunberg, Kim Kardashian, and others.
The satirical "Spitting Image" paragraphs and his critically acclaimed "sketches", sometimes touching, made political life accessible to the general public and served as an outlet for expressing anger against the conservative reforms of the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the late US President Ronald Reagan.
One of the creators of the program, Roger Law, said that the "time is right" now to revive the program, considering that the social upheaval that Britain is currently witnessing, especially with its exit from the European Union, "is not different" from that which it witnessed in the eighties of the last century.
But times have changed a lot. Some commentators have questioned whether this first original production of Britbox, the video-on-demand service from BBC and ITV, will be able to withstand the pressures of the constant anger on social networks. .
The program is prepared and presented every week in order to be able to keep up with the current events. In its first episode, US President Donald Trump mocked, showing him immersed in negotiations with the emerging "Corona" virus.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also did not escape criticism, as the program portrayed him as an idiot controlled by his close advisor Dominic Cummings, who appears as the supreme leader of aliens.
As for Prince Harry, viewers saw him looking in vain for a job in Los Angeles, where Disney officials were discussing creating a black version of the famous "Star Wars" character "Yoda" in response to the anti-racist demands.
The discussion of the program, the young environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, caused an uproar. Some netizens considered that the mockery of a young woman suffering from a mild form of autism, by portraying her as an introduction to the TV weather paragraph, is completely inappropriate, even though Greta herself "loved" a tweet introducing her doll.
"I'm not trying to really offend people," said lead writer Jeff Westbrook in the presentation with this "strange and somewhat absurd" program.
Westbrook, best known for his work on "The Simsons" and "Futurama," hoped that this program would be seen as "a kind of sarcasm rather than a cruel (sarcasm)."
Tickle the fanatics
University of Cambridge history professor Lucy Delab said the show's sense of humor is part of a long history of political satire.
And whether "Spitting Image" will achieve the expected success in 2020, she stated that the program "was necessary to tickle the fanatics and the corrupt, and the need for that day is still equally urgent."
Jeff Westbrook:
"Look at the program as a kind of sarcasm, not a cruel (sarcasm)."
100 characters represented by the new dolls selected by the program in its new version.
It displays every week to be able to keep up with the current events ironically.
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