ITV viewers have slammed a new comedy series, labelling it ‘simply offensive’. Premiering over the weekend, Piglets follows a newly recruited group of six very different would-be cops and the handful of key staff whose thankless task it is to knock them into some kind of shape. The six-part series stars Sarah Parish and Mark Heap as no-nonsense Superintendent Julie Spry and some-nonsense Superintendent Bob Weekes, whose job it is to oversee the training of the next batch of new recruits.
However, since tuning in, many viewers have made it clear they are not impressed, with some going so far as to say they want to complain to Ofcom . The controversy began a few weeks ago when the title came under fire by the Police Federation, who said it was ‘disgusting’ and ‘highly offensive’. Tiffany Lynch, Acting National Chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales said the name of the show was ‘inflammatory against a landscape of rising threats and violence against officers’ and was putting officers ‘at further risk for viewing numbers’.
The organisations chief executive, Mukund Krishna, also said it would be writing to Ofcom and demanding a change. Their sentiment was echoed by members of the public too. ‘I have just watched the first episode of Piglets.
As a former Police Officer of 30 years I have to say that not only is the title offensive, the content is insulting,’ Adrian posted on X. ‘ITV how disgusting that you can justify calling a new series abo.