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The world of Black Mirror is back. The screens are darker, the stories more poignant, and the questions more uncomfortable than ever. As we head into this new season, a name appears behind the curtain once again. A familiar name. The same man who has been wreaking havoc on our minds for the past ten years. Yes, Black Mirror Season 7 is Charlie Brooker’s masterpiece once again.

Season 7 brings new fears. New realities. A reflection of the world we live in and the horror we’re heading into. Each episode is like a window. But one that doesn’t look out of, but one that stares back at you. Charlie Brooker isn’t just the creator of Black Mirror.

He’s a cultural alarm bell. A man who turns anxiety into art. Who shows us our true selves through screens, through satire, and terrifying shadows.

How Charlie Brooker made sarcasm...

Black Mirror's Netflix parody Streamberry has made a surprising return in a completely different show, Cunk on Life. This raises some interesting questions regarding Streamberry’s role in the Black Mirror universe, one of the best British shows on Netflix, and what this means for one of Brooker’s recurring characters, Philomena Cunk.

Cunk on Life debuted on BBC Two at 9 pm GMT on December 30th, 2024. UK viewers can stream it on BBC iPlayer, while international audiences can find it on Netflix starting January 2nd, 2025. Black Mirror season 7 is also one of the most exciting TV series returning in 2025. While they are very different projects, they share some similarities, the latest being the appearance of the Streamberry streaming service.

Black Mirror's Streamberry Just Returned In Cunk On Life Philomena Cunk Interviews A Streamberry Executive

Charlie Brooker is the creator of both Black Mirror and Cunk On Life. In...

When discussing award-winning writer Charlie Brooker, most fans associate him with either Black Mirror or his satirical news shows like Newswipe or Screenwipe. Yet, many audiences are completely unaware that Brooker has delved into a ton of genres, all of which embody his usual twisted and shocking tone. Dead Set works to completely subvert the reality show Big Brother and present fans with an unnerving dystopian reality.

When Dead Set premiered back in 2008, it was shown just six weeks after the conclusion of the latest series, making it a great watch for audiences who are keen to enjoy a nostalgic take on 2000s Britain. Complete with excellent makeup effects, a twisted storyline, and a smart ending; Dead Set is everything fans expect from their favorite writer. So, why is this miniseries so underrated compared to its successor, Black Mirror?

Dead Set Experimented With the Uncanny to Terrify Audiences

The premise...

Former Netflix UK Director of Scripted Chris Sussman has signed a deal with Banijay UK.

Under terms of the exclusive first-look agreement, he’ll develop original scripted projects, working with Banijay labels to produce them.

This is part of Banijay’s £50M ($59M) UK Growth Fund initiative, which is aimed at partnering the group with high-profile talent, investing in new business and striking other sorts of talent deals.

Sussman fits that bill. His credits include work on Fleabag, This Country, Catastrophe, Charlie Brooker’s Wipe, Good Omens, Mum, People Just Do Nothing and Bad Education. We revealed back in June last year that he was exiting his post at Netflix, where he had worked on shows such as Man Vs Bee and Harlan Coben drama Stay Close, and we later reported he was in talks to exec the fourth season of Apple TV+’s Trying.

Banijay UK CEO Patrick Holland first...

A new series of “Black Mirror” is in the works at Netflix, Variety can reveal.

It’s been almost three years since Season 5 of the dystopian drama premiered on the streaming service in June 2019, but sources indicate that a new anthology series of “Black Mirror” is shaping up, and casting is now underway.

While details about specific stories are being kept under lock and key, Variety understands that Season 6 will have more episodes than Season 5, which comprised of just three instalments and starred Andrew Scott, Anthony Mackie, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topher Grace and Miley Cyrus.

A source close to the production tells Variety that the latest season is even more cinematic in scope, with each instalment being treated as an individual film. This is, of course, in line with recent seasons of “Black Mirror,” for which episodes usually exceeded 60 minutes and had incredibly high production values.

The new season of...

The year from hell, i.e. 2020, is about to get the mockumentary treatment courtesy of none other than Charlie Brooker, the creator of “Black Mirror.” Leave it to the maker of some of television’s darkest dystopias to conjure a new one, and once again at Netflix, now the home to ongoing seasons of “Black Mirror.”

While details about the mockumentary remain hush-hush, Hugh Grant let it slip earlier this year during an interview about “The Undoing” with New York Magazine that he’ll be featured in the project.

“Charlie Brooker has written a mockumentary about 2020. It’s for Netflix,” Grant said, adding that he will be “an historian who’s being interviewed about the year. I’m pretty repellent, actually! And you’ll like my wig.” Anyone who saw “The Undoing,” the HBO miniseries co-starring Nicole Kidman that wrapped on Sunday, realizes Grant knows a thing or two about being repellent.

Louisa Mellor Jun 1, 2017

Some exciting new UK drama and comedy commissions are making their way to TV over the next year or so…

We know, we know. You still have two episodes of Fargo season two before you can think about starting season three. You’ve already fallen behind on American Gods. Your planner memory is chock-a-block with Big Little Lies and that Oj Simpson thing and some Spanish prison series your workmate bullied you into recording. You’re struggling to make time for Twin Peaks. New Game Of Thrones is just around the corner. And guess what, Netflix UK have just added a whole new season of It’s Always Sunny, those sods. You need a list of new TV show recommendations like you need a hole in the head.

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And yet, as long as they keep making them, we’ll keep recommending them.

Kirsten Howard Dec 6, 2017

Black Mirror season 4 will land on Netflix on Friday the 29th of December. Watch the trailer for 'U.S.S. Callister' and more here...

It's official: Black Mirror will be heading back to Netflix on Friday the 29th of December for its fourth season, and ahead of the show's no doubt grim-but-triumphant return, trailers are being released teasing each episode.

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Here's the sixth and final episode trailer for "U.S.S. Callister"...

Here's one for 'Hang The DJ'...

And another new one for 'Metalhead'...

Then there's a creepy trailer for Black Museum, a multi-story episode including plenty of references to previous instalments...

We got a poster for that one, too...

Next, here's a peek at the unsettling season 4 episode directed by Jodie Foster, Arkangel...

John Hillcoat (Triple 9, Lawless) directed the next episode, Crocodile. Here's the trailer for that.

Ruth Jones is developing a new sitcom for BBC One, it has been revealed.

BBC comedy controller Shane Allen has confirmed that the Gavin & Stacey co-creator and star will front a new show, that may form part of a second season of Comedy Playhouse projects in 2015.

He added that Jones's company Tidy Productions may choose to produce a non-transmission pilot episode.

"Ruth is fantastic and we'd love to do something with her," he told Broadcast. "We were talking studio shows and she would be absolutely perfect for that."

Meanwhile, Allen has ordered six episodes of The Kennedys, a sitcom written by Celebrity MasterChef winner Emma Kennedy. The show will be based on her family life.

iPlayer will also stream a second series of comedy shorts, following this year's sketches from the likes of Frankie Boyle and Micky Flanagan. They will be released around Valentine's Day.

On BBC Two, Morgana Robinson...

BBC Four has announced details of four new shows to be broadcast later this year.

Mackenzie Crook will star in the six-part series Detectorists, in which he uses his own experiences as a metal detector enthusiast.

Crook will "tap into the world of the male hobby which is very funny and touching", BBC controller of comedy commissioning Shane Allen said.

The BBC is looking to announce a "big name" star to appear opposite Crook in the series, according to Radio Times.

The pair will "embark on a journey of greed, betrayal, rejection and redemption as they hurtle towards Danbury Metal Detecting Club's greatest ever find".

Meanwhile, Miles Jupp will write and star as cookery writer Damien Trench in In and Out of the Kitchen, a three-part series based on the Radio 4 comedy.

Each episode follows Damien and his partner Anthony (Justin Edwards), their builders Mr Mullaney and Steven, and Damien's "terrifying" agent Ian.

Odd List Louisa Mellor 19 Dec 2013 - 07:00

We’ve scanned the UK TV schedules over the next fortnight and circled a few new Christmas programmes you may enjoy…

Despite this being the time of year when television repeats aren't just tolerated, but welcome (if at no point in the next fortnight does Dermot Morgan get lost in a department store underwear aisle, or a snowman ride a motorbike through a Sussex field, then it just won't feel like Christmas), we've gone for brand new shows in the list below.

There's a selection of new drama, comedy and a few other bits and pieces you may wish to circle in your festive TV listings magazine... Merry Christmas.

Drama Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor

What is it? It's Doctor Who. Do you need to know anything else?

What’s this one about? This one-hour special is Matt Smith's farewell episode as the Doctor,...

Charlie Brooker has spoken to Digital Spy about the lack of computer game shows on mainstream TV, arguing that they are neglected because of the false stereotype that the medium is aimed primarily at children.

The most famous computer game TV show, Channel 4's GamesMaster, ended in 1998 and Brooker said that the BBC is reluctant to ever expand on his one-off review show Gameswipe.

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Brooker is hosting a documentary for Channel 4 on the history of gaming this weekend, and the writer and comedian said that the lack of gaming on TV "boils down to a lack of imagination".

"Games are an evolving medium and there are lots of topics of discussion around them. A video game can be anything from The Last of Us, which is an HBO boxset in video game form,...

Charlie Brooker is no doubt a great journalist, an arguably decent comedian, and has created some fantastic shows about the strange and horrible world of working in television. Not just that: he also created Black Mirror, a TV show about what technology has done and might do in the future, should we continue to be so reliant on it. It’s a wonderfully dark and miserable place which tickles me pink.

One idea that seems to have slipped Brooker’s mind, though, is Gameswipe. Gameswipe’s first and only episode aired on 29th September 2009 in the UK, so it perplexes me as to why he’s so hesitant to create another. Here’s a list of 5 reasons why Charlie Brooker should make Gameswipe: Part 2 in the not-too-distant future.

5. The Guests

The guests alone are enough of a reason to run to the BBC trousers down and start shooting. Each...

The latest story from the dark mind of Charlie Brooker was unleashed in last night's creepy and unnerving episode of Black Mirror.

The professional ranter and part-time TV writer is one of the most in-demand talents on British TV, splitting his time between endless comedy, drama and entertainment projects over the last couple of years.

From the silliness of Touch of Cloth, the political commentary of 10 O'Clock Live to the sinister Black Mirror series, Brooker always delivers the goods.

Digital Spy has looked back at his finest work and picked out six of his best since he made the move from TVGoHome satirist to fully-fledged TV comic.

Dead Set

Mixing his love for horror films with his morbid curiosity for Big Brother, Dead Set was a surprising, shocking and twisted five-part zombie thriller that was much more exciting than anything real that's happened in the Celebrity Big Brother house since...

Charlie Brooker is one of those UK wonders who hasn't made the jump to American audiences yet, and that is a damn shame. Wildly prolific, Brooker seems to produce about 600 hours of new television every year, shows like "How TV Ruined Your LIfe" and "Them From That Thing" and "10 O'Clock Live" and "Newswipe" and "Screenwipe" and the oh-so-fiendish "Dead Set," and he's the author of the blisteringly funny "Pedophilia" episode of the great "Brass Eye."  Brooker is an astute media critic as well as a wicked wit, and that's a combination that I hoped would have made him much...

Charlie Brooker has revealed that his wife Konnie Huq often comes up with some of his "best lines". The Screenwipe host praised the former Xtra Factor presenter for her "dry" sense of humour, and admitted that he sometimes steals her quotes for various TV shows. When asked if Huq helped co-write the upcoming second series of Black Mirror like its first run, he told Channel 4 News: "She was busy, yes, but she chipped in with the odd note here and there. "She's far more cynical and has a dryer sense of humour than many people realize. When I'm doing the Wipe shows she often watches the footage with me and comes out with some of the best lines. Lines which I then steal." Charlie Brooker and Konnie Huq married at an intimate ceremony in Las Vegas back in August 2010. They welcomed (more)...

Charlie Brooker's end-of-year Screenwipe review appealed to just under 530,000 viewers last night (Friday). Featuring contributions from filmmaker Adam Curtis and Scottish comic Brian Limond, the irreverant lookback pulled in 529k (3.3%) for BBC Four at 10.30pm, one of the best-rated multichannel broadcasts of the evening. In a flat night for the terrestrial channels, Have I Got News For You (4.32m/17.5%) at 8.30pm, a repeat of New Tricks (4.5m/19.2%) in the 9pm hour, and The Graham Norton Show (3.3m/18.3%) from 10.35pm helped BBC One to an easy primetime victory with an average of 20.1%. Trailing way behind was ITV1, which suffered slot losses for That was 2011: ITV News Review of the Year (more)...

Charlie Brooker’s pack of 3 stand-alone shows has certainly raised eyebrows with its controversial content but has won plaudits both from critics and the viewing public. The final episode aired last night and the series has left many thinking he should be up for some awards come ceremony time. Does he deserve a BAFTA? Many think so, and if he does achieve that recognition it will have been quite a journey for a man who was once known merely as a venomous critic, spitting vitriol over prime time television.

When the big HBO shows were first aired on this side of the pond I excitedly tuned in every Sunday evening to watch these soon-to-be classics. The Sopranos, Deadwood and 6 Feet Under were like nothing I’d seen before. At the same time I was a regular reader of The Guide, the Guardian’s Saturday supplement, in which Charlie Brooker wrote his Screen Burn column.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Charlie Brooker’s Twilight Zone inspired horror anthology Black Mirror begins on Sunday with “The National Anthem”, the first of three stand alone episodes which at once juggle razor sharp satire, silly jokes and disturbing imagery. It’s safe to say it’s unlike anything else you’ve seen on British television in the last twelve months – in fact you’d probably have to reach back to Chris Morris’ similarly warped Jam to find something even remotely similar.

The premise of this episode is difficult to explain without spoilers, so to put it extremely vaguely: it’s about a Prime Minister (Rory Kinnear) who awakens one morning to find that a member of the Royal Family has been taken hostage and will be killed if he doesn’t fulfil an unusual and embarrassing demand on live television within the next few hours. He spends the rest...

Through his collaboration with Chris Morris writing Nathan Barley, to his insightful Screenwipe TV series and often hilarious Guardian newspaper columns, Charlie Brooker has established himself not only as one of the country’s most influential satirists, but also as a foremost media commentator. Today, at least for the left, he is as much part of the zeitgeist as the TV shows he trashes to bits. All of the above shows – as well as his well regarded Big Brother zombie apocalypse mini-series Dead Set - share at their core a fascination with how we engage with media, often with added emphasis on the technology involved and how that continues to change our society.

These concerns are once again in the foreground of new three-part series Black Mirror, which tells three stand alone horror stories very much in the spirit of The Twilight Zone. But these are highly satirical modern nightmares...

I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.

In this episode, I have another chat with the Screenwipe/Newswipe/Gameswipe, Happy Finish, and Funny Or Die director, Al Campbell, as we fear Skynet, text Charlie Brooker, & wear silly hats for money.

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Keith Allen has blasted TV critic and Screenwipe presenter Charlie Brooker. Allen, who is currently promoting his new Sky1 drama The Runaway, described Brooker's programmes as "vacuous nonsense". Speaking to the Radio Times, the actor listed Brooker as the one thing that would make him change the channel when watching TV. "There is nothing that would encourage me to watch that man. He's a type, and I can't bear what those people do. It's a modern creation. Vacuous nonsense," he said. (more)...

BBC Two will air a special edition of Charlie Brooker's show Screenwipe this year. Charlie Brooker's 2010 Wipe will examine the year in news, television, games and films. Brooker will be joined by guests including Grace Dent, who will examine the year's soaps. Investigative journalist Nick Davies will discuss the alleged News of the World phone hacking, while comedian Doug Stanhope will talk about the Bp oil disaster. Other topics expected to be explored include the Chilean miners, the elections and the Pope's visit. Brooker's regular guest Tim Key will also (more)...

Charlie Brooker has signed up for a new BBC Two series. How TV Ruined Your Life will see the Screenwipe and You Have Been Watching host explore a different theme each week, such as love, money, fear or progress. The show will try to explain how different the television ideal is from real life. The six-part series will also include a mixture (more)...

I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.

In this episode, Ken Plume has a chat with the Screenwipe/Newswipe/Gameswipe, Happy Finish, and Funny Or Die director, Al Campbell…

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Charlie Brooker is planning a news-related follow-up to his BBC Four show Screenwipe. The programme will be called Charlie Brooker's News Wipe and will air this spring on the same channel. It will be made by Endemol subsidiary Zeppotron, the production company co-founded by Brooker which recently produced the Guardian journalist's zombie drama Dead Set for E4. Brooker said: "This is new territory for me - I'm no current (more)...

Davina McCall is to make a cameo appearance in an episode of E4's forthcoming horror show Dead Set. The five-part series takes place in a fictional Big Brother house that comes under attack from bloodthirsty zombies. McCall will meet a gruesome end as the drama unfolds on eviction night. Dead Set is written by Guardian columnist and Screen Wipe host Charlie Brooker. He said: "Just as a shopping mall was the ideal setting (more)...

LONDON -- Fresh off her best actress Oscar for The Queen, Helen Mirren is in the running for the Royal Television Society's top acting nod, this time for reprising the role of Detective Inspector Jane Tennyson in the final Prime Suspect, it was announced Monday.

The annual RTS awards will be held March 13 at the Grosvenor House hotel on London's Park Lane.

The Granada-produced drama that has gripped audiences since Mirren debuted the role in 1991 also has been nominated in the best drama series category along with Channel 4 cop drama Low Winter Sun and Sky One fairytale Hogfather.

Nominated alongside Mirren in the best actress category are Susan Lynch for her portrayal of a police sign-language interpreter who becomes involved with a deaf murder suspect in the BBC2/Blast Films production Soundproof and Julia Davis for her portrayal of '60s TV cook Fanny Cradock in BBC4 drama Fear of Fanny.

Jim Broadbent's portrayal of the British peer who attempted to befriend Moors murderer Myra Hindley in Longford, a Granada/HBO production for Channel 4, will compete for best actor against Philip Glenister in Life on Mars and Michael Sheen for his role in Kenneth Williams biopic Fantabulosa.

Controversial Channel 4 drama Death of a President will compete for the best digital channel program against BBC3 classical music extravaganza Manchester Passion and BBC4 entertainment show Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe.

Doctor Who, Life on Mars and The Street are in competition for the best drama series award, while in the international category the HBO-produced Baghdad E.R. takes on Entourage and Canal Plus-produced Spiral.