They’ve faced their fair share of flak over recent months. Now Harry and Meghan are first in the queue for more mockery.

The couple may be stepping back from royal duties but that won’t stop Spitting Image lampooning them when it returns to TV after 24 years.

Rubber puppets of Harry and Meghan have already been made, with other victims of the topical satirical show set to include Boris Johnson, his chief adviser Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, the Duke of York, Kanye West and Beyonce. The series, which will air this autumn on streaming service BritBox, will also feature Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk, RuPaul, Adele and James Corden in puppet form.

The original programme ran on ITV for 18 series between 1984 and 1996, attracting up to 15million viewers.

Spitting Image co-creator Roger Law is back as executive producer and promises the new show will be ‘more outrageous, audacious and salacious’ than ever. ‘Public service satire announcement,’ he said. ‘I’ve refused to resuscitate Spitting Image for years but when my pension ran out and my palm was crossed with silver what could an old man do?’

It is the first original commission announced by BritBox, the British TV and film streaming service launched by the BBC and ITV last year to take on Netflix. Development of the puppets is already under way. As with previous series, scripts will be written and new puppets made nearer to airtime.

The producers behind the revival said: ‘With the world getting smaller and more turbulent, the time couldn’t be more appropriate for an iconic British satirical take on global events.’

Mr Law added: ‘With scandalous scripts and A-list characters, it will be the people’s programme! We will take back control from the likes of BoJo, Trump, Harry and Meghan, Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian. We will be dazzled and amazed by Jurgen Klopp and Beyonce, we will have regular weather updates from our roving reporter Greta Thunberg.

‘And the message for the doomsayers is, this autumn we will get BritBox done.’