From: FIT TO FILL LIMITED, LONDON
PRESS INFORMATION 25 JUNE 2010
Fit2Fill Limited have
received over thirty emails in the last 48 hours suggesting that BBC3's new adult
puppet sitcom "Mongrels" might be construed by more cynical viewers to be a high-
Fit2Fill producer Andrew Barclay says: "We hadn't really thought about it seriously
before. But we checked the BBC's "Mongrels" website this morning and the Beeb do
appear to have hired the same puppet builders and puppeteers as Pets. We also notice
that Mongrels' Executive Producer is Mark Freeland, to whom we did once pitch a Pets
follow-
Andrew added, "I'm sure it's just a coincidence."
Is it possible that humble "Pets" (Budget a mere £10,000 a show) has been an unwilling prototype for BBC3's glossy primetime drive to bring adult puppet shows back into the comedy schedules?
Fit2Fill producer Brian West spoke on the phone this morning to Mongrel's producer Stephen McCrum, and he assured us that any similarities between Mongrels and Pets were 100% coincidental.
"None of us has ever even seen Pets" said McCrum, "So we can't have ripped it off. We didn't rip it off. We won't rip it off. And we wouldn't rip it off. Whatever it looks like, we're trying to make original tv, not copy someone else's work."
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