Donald Trump gets Spitting Image treatment as US eyes reboot

Donald Trump is to get the Spitting Image treatment in a potential reboot of the show in the US.

Co-creator Roger Law says he is in talks with production company Avalon to take the show stateside, and a puppet of the President has already been made. The American version of the show, popular in the UK in the '80s and early '90s, would be written by US writers for NBC, but filmed in the UK, where the puppets would also be made. Mr Trump's puppet likeness is to go on display in Norwich from Saturday until April next year.

The show ran for 13 years, parodying figures from Margaret Thatcher to Arthur Scargill. The exhibition will feature an array of the Ely-based artist's work, including some of the puppets as well as his work as a ceramic artist, which has seen him establish himself in Jingdezhen, one of China's most famous porcelain centres. Mr Law described walking through the retrospective as "like drowning", adding: "All these images you've done in the past come back to haunt you." The Trump puppet will stand alongside a number of other near life-size upper torso puppets including a Spitting Image Margaret Thatcher. The gallery's deputy director Ghislaine Wood said: "This is the first time the new Trump puppet will be shown. It is certainly the startling object in the exhibition." The exhibition Roger Law: From Satire to Ceramics will run from November 18 until April 3 2018 at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in the University of East Anglia in Norwich

A rubber caricature of US President Donald Trump designed by one of the creators of satirical TV show Spitting Image is to go on display.

The show's co-creator Roger Law said he was approached by US network NBC about rebooting the show. The American spin-off is expected to be penned by US writers, although the puppets will be made in the UK. Law's Trump puppet will go on display in Norwich as part of a retrospective of the artist's work. On Trump getting the Spitting Image treatment, Mr Law said: "I am a reformed old gentleman but I get very angry about things. "It's puppets, not people so you can get away with murder." Asked if he thought the US leader would post a critique about his puppet parody, Law said: "That'll get a few more viewers... He spends six hours a day watching television so of course he'll watch it." Roger Law created Spitting Image in the 1980s alongside Peter Fluck and Martin Lambie-Nairn.