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Charlie Brooker: I used the toilet in an airport in Singapore. And as I was walking out, there was this sign saying, “How was the toilet today?” with happy-face or sad-face buttons. Immediately, I thought, “Urgh, I’m not touching that, because it’s in a toilet!” And then I thought, “Look at that fucking dystopian imagery they’ve put in my eye-line

All great drama is character-based, all enduring drama is character-based, all popular drama is character-based, and all plausible drama is character-based.

Penn Jillette: Charlie did talk about the framing mechanism he wanted to do, and we talked about museums in Vegas, but whatever is great about Black Museum, that’s Charlie. I desperately wanted to play the lead character Rolo, even though it would have cost an extraordinary amount of money for me and Teller to cancel our Las Vegas shows during the

Shut Up and Dance marked the Black Mirror co-writing debut of William Bridges, a relative newcomer to TV. William Bridges (co-writer): I credit Charlie and Annabel for very much giving me my break in the industry. I hadn’t met them before, and had virtually no credits to my name, but I’d written a spec script for a TV show that had just been sold

Charlie Brooker: I don’t have massive sympathy for Scholes’ aims. He’s being an utter fucking arsehole, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Annabel Jones: Like a lot of deranged individuals, Scholes feels he’s coming from a place of moral superiority. So it was nice to take this relatable position and then blow it up.

Charlie Brooker: By January 2015, we were in a good position. Now it was like, “Which American network do we go with?” And this seemed to solve the problem with Channel 4, because they wanted us to find someone like HBO or AMC or Netflix to help fund Black Mirror. But that was when stage two of the Channel 4 discussions began. Annabel Jones: