Spitting Image to return

pixelburp

I could easily believe networks' nervousness: Spitting Image goes hard at public figures, even by Britain's own acerbic standards of satire. America tends to be a teeny bit more respectful of its satirical targets, bar some notable exceptions like John Oliver (ie, an English import)

irishguitarlad

I thought this was very good, will definitely tune in again.

garrettod

Hi,

Anyone watching old re-runs of Spitting Image and if so, where please?

I really wish they would bring Spitting Image back, it was a great show, we've loads of high profile gobsh1tes that they could take the pi$$ out of, while it might also be a bit easier to make than a lot of other TV at the moment, given the social distancing needs etc.

Agent Coulson

New series is already 2 episodes in.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057732524

con747

garrettod wrote: »

Hi,

Anyone watching old re-runs of Spitting Image and if so, where please?

I really wish they would bring Spitting Image back, it was a great show, we've loads of high profile gobsh1tes that they could take the pi$$ out of, while it might also be a bit easier to make than a lot of other TV at the moment, given the social distancing needs etc.

It is back, I loved the show back then. https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-10-03/spitting-image-britbox-how-to-watch/

The Black Oil

Threads merged.

_Kaiser_

I watched the first one last week but it has definitely lost something - or maybe it's just the current personalities vs Maggie, Regan, John Major and his peas etc

pixelburp

Honestly I think the nature of the leaders of its two main audiences - the UK and US - are already such brash & intentionally vulgar cartoons, it's kinda hard to mock them as viciously as (say) Maggie was. She was still a sober, adult politician as opposed to the performative (and sometimes not) idiocy of Johnson. I've watched the Trump stuff and honestly, that's just kinda how he behaves already. What's to mock without heading into real litigious territory?

Muahahaha

Anyway to watch this on tv, I think it is on some channel called Britbox. Cant see it on the Sky box, can it be manually tuned in?

Credit Checker Moose

Muahahaha wrote: »

Anyway to watch this on tv, I think it is on some channel called Britbox. Cant see it on the Sky box, can it be manually tuned in?

No, it is a separate subscription internet based platform like Netflix.

icdg

It’s not available here, alas.

Episodes are available on YouTube for an international audience but there is a list of excluded countries which includes Ireland (which may indicate there is some sort of deal for the show to air here that hasn’t yet been announced...hopefully it’s not an RTÉ One at 2am job).

Delta2113

Certainly can't see RTE showing it and I doubt Virgin Media will either. Regardless each episode has a short shelf life.

AndrewJRenko

icdg wrote: »

It’s not available here, alas.

Episodes are available on YouTube for an international audience but there is a list of excluded countries which includes Ireland (which may indicate there is some sort of deal for the show to air here that hasn’t yet been announced...hopefully it’s not an RTÉ One at 2am job).

A load of the clips are up on YT, is that what you're referring to or are the full episodes up?

Nothing hugely entertaining in the clips that I've seen.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCov3Uxwgh6Fq_2F7oW9-hA

I’ve watched the three episodes on Britbox. As pixelburp says above, characters like Trump and Johnson are already maxed out parodies themselves, so it’s hard to extract the pee from them. There’s some wickedly clever portrayals of Dominic Cummings, Pritti Patel, Michael Gove.

Of the ten or so sketches in each episode, maybe two or three were laugh out loud funny. The trailers on YouTube are some of the better ones.

The original series were a lot better in my opinion.

E mac

Jacinda Ardern was funny.

macchoille

I managed to get a subscription to britbox. In order to subscribe your IP address needs to be in the UK and you need a UK credit/debit card.

Firstly I have a VPN so I set that to the United Kingdom.
My Revolut card begins with 4596 which is a UK routing number. With the two of these it works a treat to see Spitting Image.

macchoille

icdg wrote: »

It’s not available here, alas.

Episodes are available on YouTube for an international audience but there is a list of excluded countries which includes Ireland (which may indicate there is some sort of deal for the show to air here that hasn’t yet been announced...hopefully it’s not an RTÉ One at 2am job).

For britbox they require a Uk IP address and a UK card. If you have a revolut card beginning with 4596 (it’s UK based) then all you need is a VPN set to the UK and you can subscribe.

Agent Coulson

I have to say I have been really enjoying it.


Tatcher makes a return on this weeks US Election episode.

Agent Coulson

The Govey in Paris song from last week’s episode was so good.

irishguitarlad

Agent Coulson wrote: »

The Govey in Paris song from last week’s episode was so good.

That had me in knots haha

CastorTroy

Was a double episode this week.
Kind of felt like a finale. Maybe because it's the last before the US election

batistuta9

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

A load of the clips are up on YT, is that what you're referring to or are the full episodes up?

Nothing hugely entertaining in the clips that I've seen]

The full episodes are up. Can watch them with US vpn.


Watched the first 4 & don't think I'll bother with anymore, maybe a couple of sketches each ep. are funny but not enough to keep watching.

The Jinping shuffle was very good though.

Peter_OConnor

I love it. Sure it's not all hilarious but I always get a decent laugh out of it. It's a very quick watch so well worth your time.

Episode 3 is the best so far. It has a scene were Pence is explaining a foreign relations dispute to Trump using puppets. It had me laughing hysterically for ten minutes and I still laugh when I think about it.

Comedians just can't do this type of thing in that they can't go quite so far whereas Spitting Image can just tell it as it is!

It is heavy on UK politics and the monarchy obviously being a UK show but the USA stuff is the best and especially the whole Trump family.

CastorTroy

I'm assuming they just hedged their bets when making this week's episode and assumed Biden would win

Lady Spangles

garrettod wrote: »

Hi,

Anyone watching old re-runs of Spitting Image and if so, where please?

I really wish they would bring Spitting Image back, it was a great show, we've loads of high profile gobsh1tes that they could take the pi$$ out of, while it might also be a bit easier to make than a lot of other TV at the moment, given the social distancing needs etc.

I watched a lot of the old episodes on YouTube - they were uploaded in their entirety quite some time ago. Try this?

Peter_OConnor

I love the new series and hope they keep it going. Trump is just brilliant. I won't spoil it but some genius scenes where Pence is dumbing some foreign policy so Trump an understand. Worth watching just for that. Sure it's not a laugh a minute but what is?

Agent Coulson

Season 2 starts tomorrow.

It will be interesting to see there take on the effects of Brexit and Covid on the UK.

icdg

A real pity there’s no deal to show this here.

Agent Coulson

Not the greatest opening however it still had a few funny moments.

Olivia Coleman is everywhere :)

Emo Teen Baby Yoda was something I wasn't expecting.

CastorTroy

They're getting their money's worth from their Megan and Harry puppets anyway.