{"id":55139,"date":"2024-07-22T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2076060"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:09:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:09:34","slug":"piglets-creators-respond-after-police-complain-about-sitcoms-title","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/piglets-creators-respond-after-police-complain-about-sitcoms-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Piglets creators respond after police complain about sitcom\u2019s title"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It\u2019s not a documentary. It\u2019s not a satire on the police.” <\/p>

By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 22 July 2024 at 20:00 PM<\/p>

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Police sitcom Piglets<\/a>, which comes from the team behind Green Wing, is now available to stream in full on ITVX, but it hasn\u2019t arrived without some controversy.<\/p>\n

Ahead of its first episode airing, The Police Federation of England and Wales criticised the show\u2019s title, which is a play on the derogatory term for police (pigs) calling it a \u201cdisgusting choice of language\u201d and \u201chighly offensive to police officers risking their lives\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, those behind the show have been clear in an interview<\/a> with this week\u2019s issue of Radio Times magazine <\/strong>that they weren\u2019t trying to make a political statement with the title or the focus of the series.<\/p>\n

Mark Heap said of the show: \u201cIt\u2019s not a documentary. It\u2019s not a satire on the police \u2013 it\u2019s just a nice structure. It\u2019s the \u2018sit\u2019 in which to put the \u2018com\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sam Pote as Leggo in Piglets.<\/span><\/figcaption> Moniker Pictures for ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Meanwhile, creator Victoria Pile said: \u201cIt\u2019s a workplace with all the usual challenges and romances. Whether it\u2019s a hospital, a police training college or a university, it\u2019s still got the same human condition at its heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur little group wants to explore the real ways that people behave \u2013 and pull it out a little bit at the corners and go for the extreme.\u201d<\/p>\n

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