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A much-loved French satirical television puppet show has returned after an enforced six-month break – to angry protests rather than laughter.
Les Guignols de l’info, based on the long-defunct Spitting Image show in Britain, was almost killed off in the summer after the billionaire businessman Vincent Bolloré took control of its parent cable channel, Canal Plus.
Mr Bolloré, a friend of the former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s, complained that the nightly skewering of successive generations of French public figures was “wounding and unpleasant”. He finally agreed that the show could continue if it became less self-regardingly “Franco-French”, more internationally saleable and – implicitly – less offensive.
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Les Guignols de l’info, based on the long-defunct Spitting Image show in Britain, was almost killed off in the summer after the billionaire businessman Vincent Bolloré took control of its parent cable channel, Canal Plus.
Mr Bolloré, a friend of the former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s, complained that the nightly skewering of successive generations of French public figures was “wounding and unpleasant”. He finally agreed that the show could continue if it became less self-regardingly “Franco-French”, more internationally saleable and – implicitly – less offensive.
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/frances-spitting-image-drops-offensiveness-and-angers-fans-a6774501.html
