NBC is withdrawing from broadcasting in the United States for fear of Trump's wrath
The puppet series "Mirror Images" is terrifying the American media
Political figures including Trump and Biden were reviewed by the British version of the series.
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Margaret Thatcher with some politicians.
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The American media during the era of the US President, Donald Trump, did not dare to mock the president, as is the case in Western democracies.
The evidence for this is that the British comedy series "Mirror Images", which previously mocked a group of British and American leaders, did not find an American publisher with the courage to launch it in America, after the American television network "NBC" backed away at the last minute from that step. "For fear of offending the influential people," referring to Trump.
This famous satirical series has been shown in Britain by the Donald Trump doll, the doll of the American Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, and even the doll of the US First Lady, Michelle Obama, and a wink from the Iron Lady Channel, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and what the "mirror image" team is missing He, at least for now, is an American broadcaster brave enough to show him there.
When the series' co-creator, Roger Law, thought about reviving this comedy last year, he made it clear that America, not Britain, would be the main target of the series.
"If you are going to go after the bastards here, you can also go after the biggest miscreants there," he said.
The producers held talks with several US networks and broadcast services, and agreed on temporary terms with NBC, which retained the rights to broadcast the series in the United States in the 1980s.
However, the proposed deal failed six weeks ago after network executives feared persecution, according to Avalon executive producer John Thoday, which produces the satirical series.
He says: "It is a very difficult show in the current environment in America, especially if you attack adults." And he adds: "You cannot really launch this series unless you want to attack everyone, and that is why people become nervous, they think they want to watch it, but when that happens." Worried, ”he said, referring to the publishers.
Thuday learned that there was "a lot of tension" in the upper management of NBC about going ahead with the show, which mocked the physical characteristics and hypocrisy of public figures.
In anticipation of the deal, the "mirror image" team spent large sums making dolls of American celebrities.
The American version contains sketches from the British show, including Meghan Markle, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and climate activist Greta Thunberg, with additional local material to replace some of the characters across the Atlantic.
NBC is part of Comcast, a global media conglomerate that also owns Pay TV, Sky, the film studio Universal Pictures and broadband business.
Executives might have thought that the blatantly satirical British trailer, whose first episode includes a tweet from Trump from an unexpected part of his body, would not appeal to the first American family.
It also appears that the reaction of media and technology executives who were previously mocked by the offer, from Amazon chief Jeff Bezos to Facebook chairman Mark Zuckerberg, complicated matters further on NBC.
Thoday believes that NBC may have feared the political backlash to the original series when the late president, Ronald Reagan, called the network directly to complain about his portrayal as an idiot, with his finger always on the trigger.
"It was the only show in American history, when the president called them and asked to cancel a show," he says.
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