Thursday, March 27, 2008

Digital animation will be the spitting image of 80s satire

Politicians will come to dread Sunday nights again when ITV reinvents Spitting Image as a computer-animated show with a fresh mandate to be merciless.

So many suffered at the comic hand of Spitting Image’s latex caricatures that the only ignominy worse than being lampooned was to be excluded.

Twelve years after the programme ended, Spitting Image’s head writer, Henry Naylor, and Rory Bremner are preparing to show Headcases, a new £2.5 million topical satire show in the same ITV Sunday night slot.

Instead of puppets, Gordon Brown, Amy Winehouse and Prince William, among others, are captured using CGI-animation in the style of films such as Toy Story.

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