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BritBox Series ‘Spitting Image’ Renewed as Producer Reveals NBC ‘Nervousness’ to Air Show in U.S.

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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.

Ultimately, the U.S. component of the deal fell apart just six weeks before the show’s Oct. 3 debut on BritBox. NBC has yet to comment on why it dropped out of the show.Like its predecessor in the 1980s and 1990s, the rebooted series pulls no punches while lampooning leading.

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