A new ITV comedy show called Piglets, about recruits at a police training academy, has drawn criticism from the UK Police Federation.
According to Sky News:
Tiffany Lynch, acting national chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, which represents more than 145,000 rank and file officers, said the title "is highly offensive to police officers risking their lives to protect the public every day providing an emergency service".
"It is a disgusting choice of language to use for the title of a TV programme," Ms Lynch said.
FNN is now able to provide readers with a character list from the new show to bring them up to speed:
- Winston - head of the training college aka Animal Farm
- Scratchings - his irascible personal secretary
- Trotter - the academy's loveable rogue quartermaster
- Porky - the overweight one in a uniform bursting with fecundity
- Gregg - the Muslim one who loves a bacon sarnie
- Miss Piggy - the pink, perky and up for it one
- Banger - the naughty, ripped one
- Chop, chop - the oriental one
- Streaky - the skinny one
- Crackling - the funny one
- Black Pudding - the one from Peckham
Piglets? Who would have thought that would offend anyone?