Spitting Image to return on BritBox

I believe so. EE are still offering 6 months free BritBox to their pay monthly customers, as that’s the option I took to get BritBox. They also advertised this again yesterday.

Episode 1 Streaming now!


Watched the first 2 minutes and no real.theme tune or opening.sequesnce. Just some people saying 'ah ah ah' while the Queen spray paints the logo.

My verdict is... it's okay. Just okay. It's certainly nowhere near as bad as it had the potential to be. It's very well produced and perfectly watchable, and certainly better than the first ever episode. Important to remember it took some time for the show to find its feet first time around and it'll probably be the same again.

The scenes need a bit more going on in the background in terms of action and sound effects, as that gave so much life to the original. However I realise they can't do that at the moment due to social distancing.

I have to say, it really shows that they have separate writing teams in the US and the UK. The styles clash somewhat, with the American sketches rattling off one liners and the British ones being more traditionally Spitting Image.

But above all it's just plain stupid that they've replaced the theme tune with some generic nonsense. I thought it was odd that it hasn't been heard during all the pre-launch hype. The theme tune was as iconic as the puppets themselves.

Interestingly, it's the Mail's review who have decried it as being unbalanced and unfunny, whereas the Guardian have been quite complimentary.

The Mail doesn't like something which rips the piss out of Boris and Trump, whod've thought?

They seem to have made a bit too much available for free too - enough to satisfy your curiosity, but not enough to make me want to even get a free trial.

Ultimately though I find the key characters repulsive - I couldn't even watch the Trump clip posted yesterday. Maybe it's because they've got it spot on, maybe because life really is beyond satire, but I think with the current state of the world if I'm tuning in for half an hour of comedy I'm wanting to escape reality.

Of course the key difference to when the original series aired is back then however repulsive you may have found the politicians of the day you were generally only exposed to them around three times a day. Now it feels like it is pretty much 24/7 and I think politics is more engrained into our daily lives at the moment than it has ever been thanks to events of the last few years.

On second viewing, I've warmed to it a lot more. (Perhaps it was a mistake to watch it when I'd just woken up).

Also I skipped through the sketches I'd already seen and ended up missing the Prince Harry fancy dress bit, which I think is pure classic Spitting Image.

I thought it was good, a few duff sketches but that is par with the course when it comes to Spitting Image.

My favourites sketches were the Dominic Raab YouTube parody and the Mary Poppins parody of Jacinda Ardern.

Just finished watching it and thought it was brilliant.

The US Based ones and Cabinet sketches were funny

Super-Socialistic-Extra-Nice-Jacinda was excellent

But the Gove and Patel one just seemed cringy rather than funny.

And it's a shame they're using a different theme.

Can't wait for.next.weeks

Highlights:

Trump tweeting with his bits.
The Gove/Patel dominatrix sketch
Jacinda as Mary Poppins.
Mike Pence grayed out, a homage to John Major?

The Harry & Meghan sketches weren't as good, not helped that they've given the Harry character that of an Australian backpacker.

They really need to get the original theme back, even if it's reworked again, but otherwise it was a decent watch.

I wonder if we'll see William and Kate make an appearance in future episodes?

Odd that Rishi Sunak didn't appear in any of the Cabinet sketches unless they're saving him for later.

How it should have been:



I'm guessing a different character is going to be exposed as the graffiti artist each week.