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Spitting Image
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Don't know why they ever stopped. . Think the main guy behind it moved off to Australia, but you'd think the idea of using puppets to make satirical and comic sketches would go on, there are endless possiblilities and no exhorbitant fees to pay out to the celebs....
The puppets can make great vids too
go here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU9lv_WqK6k
The puppets can make great vids too
go here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU9lv_WqK6k
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The cost and logistics of putting on a puppet show is huge. Whenever BBC were getting similar viewing figures for a low-cost production like Have I Got News For You, a financial burden like Spitting Image never stood a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZjwCmJrnlY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4r_a5adehs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDwN2d7Btnw
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It seemed to flourish in the 80s when the Maggie and the Tories were in power,
Other musical parodies featured Michael Jackson, Kylie Minogue, The Monkees, Pulp, Brett Anderson of Suede, Pet Shop Boys, Björk, East 17, Elvis Presley, Oasis, ZZ Top, Prince and Barbra Streisand.
You beat me to it.
Fantastic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JthyQ2z0acs
they had the sets.... after 14 years they had a great set up, yet
they gave it all up, auctioned all the puppets and that was it .
They could have gone on to more productions, advertising, pop videos,
TV specials. I just dont understand why they packed it all in.
In 1994 Central was taken over by Carlton after the ITV franchise carve-up of 1992.
In 1995 Spitting Image production was axed, with last episodes airing Jan 1996.
Anyone putting these two facts together is a obviously a trouble-maker and an anti- ITV conspiracy theorist. !!
Most of the original writers and Impressionists had left.
Plus Blair had just got elected Labour leader, and at that point was un-satirisable due to the unpopularity of the Tories.
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