Spitting Image

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• Daren

  June 2006 edited June 2006

  Geoff wrote:

  Here's a date for your calendar if you can receive UK TV stations.
  
  On Sunday 25 June there is the following
  ITV1 10:00 p.m. - New documentary on Spitting Image.
  ITV4 11:00 p.m. - First episode.
  ITV4 11:30 p.m. - Last episode.
  
  The documentary reveals something I never knew before. Sir Clive was the main financial contributor to the formation of the "Spitting Image" project which helped the careers of numerous comedy writers and voices.
  
  They repaid his kindness by creating the puppet that adorns Sinclair User No. 45 and lampooning him mercilessly but I expect that was part of the deal.
  
  --
  Geoff

  
  Thanks for the info Geoff. I never knew that about Sir Clive and Spitting Image.
• Ian Hamilton

  June 2006 edited June 2006

  Definitely gonna check them out. Cheers Geoff.
  
  Necros.
• Geoff

  June 2006 edited June 2006

  I caught this in Saturday's TV schedules then searching the Web I found this
  
  http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D41A.htm
  
  I suppose that if you have just received a knighthood from the Queen in Mrs. Thatcher's honours list and are trying to sell to America then you wouldn't want to shout that you funded a Nancy Reagan puppet and went on to finance Mrs. Thatch and her entire cabinet in latex and the entire Royal Family in rubber too.
• guesser

  June 2006 edited June 2006

  Geoff wrote:

  Mrs. Thatch and her entire cabinet in latex

  hahahaha:lol: perv;-)

  My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
• Andrew Barker

  June 2006 edited June 2006

  Gawd, imagine if they wrote something like that these days ?
  It'd be taken off the air before we knew it. Everything too PC these days, it does my tree in... doh that was offensive to trees :-p
• Ian Hamilton

  June 2006 edited June 2006

  Andrew Barker wrote:

  Gawd, imagine if they wrote something like that these days ?
  It'd be taken off the air before we knew it. Everything too PC these days, it does my tree in... doh that was offensive to trees :-p

  He's havin' a go at the flowers now. :)
• chaosmongers

  June 2006 edited June 2006

  Andrew Barker wrote:

  Gawd, imagine if they wrote something like that these days ?
  It'd be taken off the air before we knew it. Everything too PC these days, it does my tree in... doh that was offensive to trees :-p

  
  
  Yes. Trees are in fact small plants of alternative but no less valid vertical attainment.
  
  I do not think that differentiating between 'differently achieving' plants is at all constructive, and can lead to organical discriminatory practices.
• NickH

  June 2006 edited June 2006

  I heard a rumour that Spitting Image was coming back for a brand new series...
• cyborg

  June 2006 edited June 2006

  Andrew Barker wrote:

  Gawd, imagine if they wrote something like that these days ?
  It'd be taken off the air before we knew it. Everything too PC these days, it does my tree in... doh that was offensive to trees :-p

  
  Except that's just not true. Satire is as scathing today as it has ever been.
• Geoff

  June 2006 edited June 2006

  The listings have now appeared online at itv.com for June 26 10:00 pm
  and the program might not be as revealing as the producer John Lloyd's revelations in the Weekend Mail and the 2002 article.
  
  The Best of Spitting Image

  ---

  "Ant and Dec (as they've never been seen before) celebrate the puppet parodies and latex lampoonery of the 11-year series that sent up famous faces from politics, sport and showbiz - including Margaret Thatcher, John Major and the royal family. Featuring interviews with victims Bob Geldof, Neil Kinnock, Steve Davis, Trevor McDonald and Chris Eubank. Both the first and last episodes follow on ITV4."
  
  I expect Clive's puppet will be there though.
  
  I did notice also that the Ali G film is on ITV2 tonight although I doubt that he performs as well with a script as he does without one.