Piglets
- TV sitcom
- ITVX
- 2024
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Sitcom set in a police training college. Stars Sarah Parish, Mark Heap, Callie Cooke, Sam Pote, Sukh Ojla and more.
- Due to return for Series 2
Press clippings
Piglets to return for Series 2
Piglets, the ITV comedy series set in a fictional police training college, is to return for a second series.
British Comedy Guide, 7th November 2024Ofcom to take no further action against Piglets
Broadcast regulator Ofcom is to take no further action against ITV comedy Piglets, despite receiving 269 complaints it was offensive.
Chortle, 9th September 2024"You know your show is garbage!": inside TV's biggest backlashes
From Watchmen to The Rings Of Power to Piglets, TV is increasingly being bombarded with outrage. We talk to the creators of shows who faced down furore, review bombing and a furious police force.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 30th August 2024Piglets review
Every single joke's a misfire in this criminally unfunny police comedy.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 5th August 2024Piglets now reaches 200 Ofcom complaints
Last week, we reported how it had attracted 100 complaints to Ofcom. Now the number has doubled, with a total of 200 recorded in this week's analysis.
Beth Allcock, The Sun, 31st July 2024Piglets' Mark Heap: "Me as a police officer? I'd have no street cred!"
Mark Heap on how police trainers Bob and Julie are at loggerheads as they battle to be boss in ITV sitcom Piglets.
Victoria Wilson, What To Watch, 29th July 2024Piglets review
This series set in a police training academy is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and simply embarrassing.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 25th July 2024Ally Ross: Piglets makes ITV look pathetic and horribly dated
Something terrible has happened to ITV recently. It's started to think it's Channel 4, not just in terms of its left-of-centre coverage of current affairs, and relentlessly miserable dramas, but also now with the stuff it calls "comedy".
Ally Ross, The Sun, 25th July 2024Piglets hit with 106 Ofcom complaints as viewers fume over 'disrespectful' show
Piglets debuted last weekend and is a six-part series based on a fictional police training college - but viewers weren't happy.
Jasmine Allday, The Mirror, 24th July 2024Piglets: The Dim Blue Line
The team behind Green Wing has changed colour for its new sitcom - but some are already seeing red...
Huw Fullerton, Radio Times, 23rd July 2024