Sublime

I co-wrote a comedy for Sky, although by then James Murdoch had stepped down from BSkyB. Incidentally, if you ‘followed the money’ up the chain of previous TV shows I’ve been involved with, you could arrive at Silvio Berlusconi, a man I once described on TV as ‘an ejaculating penis with a Prime Minister attached to it’. And this book is published b

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Black Mirror" (2011-presente)

Aaron Paul in una scena della sesta stagione di "Black Mirror.

Creata da Charlie Brooker, la serie antologica di fantascienza "Black Mirror" è come una versione del XXI secolo di "Ai confini della realtà", con una rosa di guest star che comprende alcuni dei più talentuosi caratteristi di oggi, che raccontano storie trat... See more

Charlie Brooker: This was one of the hardest Black Mirrors to write, and at one point I completely gave up. It has a lot of elements which are exactly the sort of thing we parodied when we did this spoof TV detective show called A Touch of Cloth, a sort of British take on [the 1988 comedy film] Naked Gun, with that Zucker Brothers humour. Because I

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Enter Charlie and Annabel’s Black Mirror pitch, about doing modern parable stories around the theme of social media, technology and AI advances. By this point I’d been made head of comedy, so was drunk on ego and power. Annabel Jones: We pitched Black Mirror as the fears of the day. Things that hadn’t been dramatised. Things that people didn’t quit

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Cunk on Earth" (2023)

Diane Morgan è la protagonista di "Cunk on Earth".Netflix

Da oltre un decennio, la comica inglese Diane Morgan interpreta un personaggio chiamato Philomena Cunk: una conduttrice televisiva gravemente seria i cui documentari sulla cultura e sulla storia sbagliano la maggior parte dei fatti in modo esilarante. La serie in cinque ... See more

So I wanted to write a story which used that as a central image. And I thought the way to do that was a high-tech zombie movie, so I wrote a script where literally it was that. The story started in a newsroom. A signal was making this symbol appear on screens around the world. When people saw this symbol, 90 per cent of them turned into dumb voyeur

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Charlie Brooker: The show has changed quite a bit, actually. If you look at the first series, The Entire History of You is closest to ones we’ve done more recently, with invasive technology in people’s eyes. But it’s morphed. It went very, very VR for a while, and now we’re moving out of that into some other phase. We can revisit old ideas we’ve do

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Being a nostalgic old prick, I’d looked up old Mr Man cartoons. I walked out of the room and it started playing the next video and the next and the next. And then, algorithmically, it somehow ended up showing him the trailer for John Carpenter’s The Thing. So I walked back in and he didn’t look happy. I thought, “Oh no! What have I done?” And then

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