Rebooted British Satire Show 'Spitting Image' to Return for Second Season in Fall 2021

Naman Ramachandran Television production and talent management company Avalon (“Spitting Image,” “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”) has acquired a majority stake in British agency The Agency to form a global talent representation business with offices in New York, Los Angeles and London.The Agency will continue to operate under the leadership and management of its partners.

Manori Ravindran International EditorMTV International is rebooting iconic format “MTV Cribs,” with guests including Caitlyn Jenner, Nickelodeon personality and singer JoJo Siwa, former “Glee” star Kevin McHale and British singer Stefflon Don.The global launch follows something of a warm-up for “Cribs” in the last year. The show received a U.K.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: A&E has given the greenlight to a second season of Accused: Guilty or Innocent?, the true-crime series made by British production outfit Brinkworth Productions.The documentary series follows individuals accused of a serious crime from the point they are charged, to the conclusion of their case in a court of law. Producers say it’s the first show of its kind on U.S.

Satirical comedy Spitting Image will be back for a second series in the autumn of 2021, it has been confirmed.

Naman Ramachandran “Spitting Image,” the iconic British satirical puppet show rebooted for streamer BritBox U.K., has been renewed for a second season while its executive producer has revealed why U.S. broadcaster NBC backed out of airing the show stateside.Speaking to the U.K.’s Times newspaper, Jon Thoday, executive producer at “Spitting Image” producer Avalon, said there was “too much nervousness” in the upper echelons of the NBC hierarchy about the show’s content.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorBritBox’s reboot of British satirical puppet show Spitting Image has been renewed for a second season just days after it premiered the first episode of Season 1 online.The Avalon-produced caricature comedy will be back in fall 2021 after BritBox said its first series premiere helped boost new subscribers ten-fold compared to its average daily sign-up rate.Reemah Sakaan, group director of ITV SVOD and chief creative and brand officer of BritBox, said: “The

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: The reboot of classic British comedy series Spitting Image is set to premiere on Facebook – a day after its UK debut.The Avalon-produced puppet parody, which is headed up creatively by co-creator Roger Law and The Simpsons’ Jeff Westbrook as showrunner, will launch on Facebook Premiere at 9PM PT and will be available for 24 hours.

The Great British Baking Show (or Great British Bake Off as its known in its native Great Britain) is back! New episodes of the fan-favorite baking competition drop every Friday on Netflix, which means all other weekend plans have been retroactively canceled. The series, which debuted in 2010, follows 12 amateur bakers in their quest to be declared Great Britain's top baker.

Piers Morgan has described Boris Johnson as a ‘bumbling fool’ who ‘doesn’t know the rules’, in a ferocious monologue on Good Morning Britain today.The TV host, sitting alongside Susanna Reid, called for urgent change in response to the Prime Minister’s confusion over the latest Covid-19 restrictions.Yesterday (September 29), Boris Johnson issued an apology after he failed to clarify precisely what the new restrictions would mean for around two million people in the North East.“If you’re somebody