Spitting Distance

Grant and Naylor talk satirical puppets on ITV1.

16 June, 2006

Red Dwarf creators Rob Grant and Doug Naylor have been interviewed for Best Ever Spitting Image.

The show, which goes out at 10.30pm, Sunday, June 25th on ITV1 should be a mix of classic clips and history, detailing the show's production - of which Grant and Naylor were a major, and sometimes overlooked, part. (And they did, of course, write number one Spitting Image single The Chicken Song.)

Geek sidenote: Fluck and Law's puppets made several appearances outside of Spitting Image. Chris Barrie once voiced the Ronald Reagan puppet for the Genesis music video Land of Confusion. The puppet of Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford, meanwhile, would later be adapted to become Jesus Christ.

Frankly, if the show can muster up more uselessly fascinating nuggets like that, we'll be onto a winner!