Adele, Zayn Malik, and Donald Trump Will Be Talking Puppets In Upcoming Newzoids Season 2
Adele and Zayn Malik are two of the most talked about hollywood celebrities of this generation and Donald Trump is certainly a celebrity on a whole new level; this upcoming new season of Newzoids just couldn’t resist immortalizing them as puppets.
Newzoids is a satirical British TV series that has been portraying a long list of celebrities in its comedic plot since it started airing on ITV in April 2015. The series features the voices of known British impressionists Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson, and Lewis MacLeod, and writers Pete Sinclair, Madeleine Brettingham, Tom Jamieson, and Annabel Port. Newzoids have been impersonating everyone from politics to sports to television to even royalty and some of the personalities they have already animated as puppets are model Cara Delevingne, US President Barack Obama, American Idol‘s Simon Cowell (although we still loved Shrek‘s version of Simon Cowell better), and even the whole British royal family, from Queen Elizabeth II down to Princess Charlotte of Cambridge.
Newzoids is now renewed for season 2 and will be coming back with brand new puppet animations of Adele, Zayn Malik, Bear Grylls, and Donald Trump. Adele, Zayn Malik, Bear Grylls, and Donald Trump will be Newzoids’ puppet marionettes alongside last season’s puppet cast David Cameron, The Queen, and Simon Cowell. Who could’ve forgotten the episode where Harry Styles met vampire-version of Simon Cowell? Maybe Harry Style’s ex band-mate Zayn Malik will be meeting his own vampire-version of Adele, too.
Talking about the plans for season 2, Newzoids producers Citrus Television and Factory Transmedia reveal:
Up to 50 new faces will be getting the Newzoids treatment for Series 2, including Jeremy Corbyn, Adele, Donald Trump, Danny Dyer, Zayn Malik and Bear Grylls, adding to the 70 existing Newzoids characters who include David Cameron, The Queen, Ant and Dec and Simon Cowell.
ITV’s Commissioning Editor for Comedy Saskia Schuster adds:
Newzoids’ first series proved to be funny, fresh and biting, creating its very own surreal world of politics and celebrity. I look forward to meeting the many new Newzoids puppet creations… celebrities and MPs beware, nobody is safe!
Newzoids have received mixed reviews, owing to its satirical and political nature. Independent says:
The kindest thing to be said in defence of Newzoids is that the first few editions of Spitting Image in the early 1980s were not funny either. It took false starts and much heart ache to turn that programme into the television classic that it became. Maybe, given time, talent and determination, the Newzoids team can turn out quality satire too.
For the younger ones, Spitting Image was an older British satirical puppet show back in the 1980s, which also aired on the ITV network. Spitting Image has been nominated and have won various TV awards, including 10 British Academy Television Awards and 2 Emmys. Now, that’s quite tough to top!
The Guardian insists to give Newzoids a chance, given its fresh take on television:
[Newzoids] isn’t perfect, obviously – there seems to be an underlying level of caution on the part of the creators. Where Spitting Image would make hay with an entire government, Newzoids noticeably only limits itself to the party leaders and a handful of advisers. Perhaps this is because it doesn’t credit its audience with knowing who anyone else is, or perhaps it’s because modern politicians are all such slippery automatons that satire simply pings off them, but its lack of depth feels like a wasted opportunity. Especially when the alternative is yet another “Andy Murray is boring” gag. Also – and this is quite a bit also – I didn’t actually laugh out loud once during the first episode. However, despite these flaws, it might be worth sticking with Newzoids. The Spitting Image creations weren’t an immediate success, because they needed time for all their specific quirks and eccentricities to bubble to the surface. Plus, I suspect the choice to launch the show during a general election might be a masterstroke.
Stay tuned to Newzoids to watch Adele, Zayn Malik, and Donald Trump, among others, get their Newzoids puppet treatment. Will they get Adele and Zayn Malik’s spectacular voice? Will we hate puppet Donald Trump just as much as we do the real Trump? Season 2 of Newzoids will start airing this 2016.
[Featured image via ITV]
