BBC2 announces new chat show hosted by... Vladimir Putin?
Comedian Natt Tapley will play the Russian President using live VFX
- Ben Allen
Published: Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 11:07 am
The BBC has announced a bizarre new chat show hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Obviously not the real thing, but comedian Natt Tapley imitating him with the help of live VFX.
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Two semi-scripted "pilot" episodes of the show will air on BBC2 later this year, with guests including Alastair Campbell, June Sarpong, comedian Joe Swash and Guilty Feminist podcast host Deborah Frances-White.
For an idea of how Putin will look, have a glance at this teaser below, which sees him standing outside Buckingham Palace, declaring his intent to have the number one chat show in the UK: "Watch out Graham Norton, I'm coming for you."
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According to a release from the BBC, the show is "created using performance capture technology, developed by creative studio Framestore".
The tech "enables a 3D digital cartoon of Putin to walk around and sit behind the desk, interviewing real human guests in front of a studio audience, all in real-time."
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The series is created by Jasper Gibson, Joel Veitch and Simon Whalley. According to caricaturist Adrian Teal, it is set to air this June.
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