Red is the new puppet mascot of Virgin One.
British broadcaster Virgin One has a brand new mascot and he’s a puppet. His name is Red and he’s performed by Brian Herring and was built by Paul Jomain, who also built the PG Tips monkey.
Red was created as part of complete rebranding of Virgin One that [...]
Gareth Oliver is a talented British Ventriloquist who appeared on the latest season of Britain’s Got Talent.
With all the worldwide media attention heaped on Susan Boyle during the latest season of Britain’s Got Talent, a really talented Ventriloquist on the show has somewhat overlooked – Gareth Oliver. He debuted on the show with a really [...]
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre creates madcap puppet fun two socks at a time.
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre might not be top-notch puppetry on a purely technical level, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a funnier, more consistently imaginative (or prolific) series of puppet videos out there. Created by Kev F Sutherland, the videos have [...]
The cheeky PG Tips Monkey sends up the Queen with a special Christmas greeting.
The recently-blogged PG Tips Monkey recently donned drag and delivered a Christmas message dressed as the Queen (televised Christmas addresses by Queen Elizabeth are a tradition in England and Commonwealth countries like Canada). This was apparently created to precede a full-length PG [...]
“Monkey” is the popular star of a two year-old advertising campaign for PG Tips tea in the UK.
PG Tips is a popular brand of tea in the United Kingdom (they claim Britons drink 35 million cups of PG Tips a day) that seems to be very progressive. They’re owned by multinational food giant Unilever, which [...]
Brains – from the classic British series Thunderbirds – is featured in a new viral ad for Drench bottled water in the UK.
One of the latest viral sensations on YouTube is an ad for Drench Bottled Water in the UK featuring Brains (one of the characters from Gerry Anderson’s classic Thunderbirds TV series) dancing to [...]
Good-natured serial self-abuser Mervin J. Minky is one of the dysfunctional puppet characters in MTV UK’s Fur TV .
Fur TV is a new British puppet series for adults based on an award-winning short by filmmakers Chris Waitt and Henry Trotter. The show revolves around three puppets named Lapeño, Edward and Mervin who share a flat [...]
The Gluvets are competing for £100,000 on the UK variety show Britain’s Got Talent.
The Gluvets – who frequently hang out on various puppetry forums and community sites around the web – appeared on Britain’s Got Talent this week (click the link for a video). Simon Cowell gave them a hard time and complained that they [...]
Marionette maker Tony Sinett created this marionette for Johnny Flynn’s Tickle Me Pink.
It often seems like some of the most unique and original film and video puppetry these days is being done in music videos. I’ve been getting a lot of emails about different ones lately…here are three of the latest:
Tickle Me Pink is a [...]
Princes Harry and William get caricatured in the new CG version of Spitting Image (image © ITV).
Spitting Image has come back to the UK! Except it’s not puppetry. Also, it’s not called Spitting Image. The puppets have been replaced with computer animation and Headcases is what they’re calling this 21st century remake of the [...]
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