As episodes in my career go, this was a strange one…
A year or so before the pandemic, I was in a get-to-know-you meeting with a production executive in New York, and she asked me to help out on a project that her company was developing back in the UK. It was to be two twelve-minute pilots for a BBC2 comedy series entitled Tonight with Vladimir Putin. The eventual promo blurb for this ran as follows:
Everyone's favourite global strongman finally achieves his ultimate goal - a chat show on the BBC. A digital 3-D cartoon version of Vladimir Putin interviews real human guests before a studio audience.
To add to the weirdness, a gobby Meghan Markle avatar would also pop up in a couple of cameos. My responsibilities would begin and end with honing the caricatures for the pilots.
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