Spitting Image returns as online show
- Spitting Image is back... as a YouTube series. Spitting Image Presents: The Rest Is Bulls*!t is presented by 'Prince Harry' and 'Paddington Bear'
- The first episode, written by Al Murray and Matt Forde, is available to watch below
Spitting Image is to return as a YouTube series.
The puppet-based satirical format, which launched in 1984 and ran until 1996, was briefly revived in 2000 for streaming service BritBox.
The new version - titled Spitting Image Presents: The Rest Is Bulls*!t - will be begin on the Spitting Image YouTube channel later this year. However, a first teaser episode has been uploaded today. Presented by 'Prince Harry' and 'Paddington Bear', the 11 minute episode features topical sketches on topics including Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Producers Avalon explain: "A brand-new era of Spitting Image begins with The Rest Is Bulls*!t... specially created, original short-form vodcast episodes, for all those wanting to laugh in the face of these anxiety-inducing, squeaky-bum times of global conflict, unhinged world leaders and megalomaniac Fin Tech bosses.
"The (latex) gloves are off and it's not pulling any punches. This isn't just satire. It's a no holds barred up-to-the-minute assault on the world of politics, pop culture and media control. From The White House to Windsor, from Putin to Paddington via Silicon Valley - it's fearless, it's as disgusting as the real people and it's as hard-hitting as you remember - ideal entertainment for anyone with a 21st century attention span.
"Watch today's one-off teaser episode and get exclusive insight into Prince Harry's 'truth' as he tries to 'make a sh*t tonne of money out of podcasting'; brace yourself for the real Paddington Bear and his penchant for something other than marmalade; find out what really went on when The Donald called President Putin yesterday; celebrate Sir Keir and all the global U-turners, and witness Zelenskyy's musical appeal to the United States to keep supplying Ukraine this week... amongst much more."
The new series will be led creatively by two of the writers' of the stage show - Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical - Al Murray and Matt Forde. The start date for the new series will be announced in due course.