Charlie Brooker
- 53 years old
- English
- Writer, executive producer, presenter, satirist and producer
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Even as TV's foremost black sky thinker, Charlie Brooker would probably have struggled to predict the turbulent, feverish and generally dispiriting events of 2016. Suffice to say that Brooker isn't short of material for this year's rewind. However, there'll be some light relief as Philomena Cunk goes head to head with grinning pop-rave professor physicist Brian Cox, and Diane Morgans media caricature gets a spin-off show immediately afterwards in Cunk On Christmas (10pm).
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 29th December 2016Preview - Cunk on Christmas
Following a previous episode where Cunk "examined" the life of Shakespeare, this time around she looks at everything to do with Christmas, from the birth of Jesus and the pagan origins to Santa Claus and "Sir Charles Dickings".
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 29th December 2016Philomena Cunk explains everything about Christmas
"It's illegal to sing carols at any other time of year, so people make the most of it at Christmas by coming round your house and singing at you until you give them stuff"
Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris, Radio Times, 29th December 2016TV preview: Cunk on Christmas, BBC Two
Following a one-off on Shakespeare earlier this year Philomena Cunk returns with a seasonal sequel exploring the meaning and traditions of Christmas. It's an important time of the year, she tells us. In fact as Cunk explains at the start of the programme in her distinctive flat northern tones, "Christmas is such a big deal even Richard Dawkins probably does it."
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th December 2016No one could laugh at Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe
Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe hit TV screens on Thursday night but the normally brilliantly sarcastic programme was missing one thing this year according to fans - the humour. And it was all 2016's fault. The year has been notoriously bad.
Rebecca Lewis, Metro, 29th December 2016It's almost as if everything that has happened in 2016 has been leading up to this moment.
Once again Charlie Brooker is back with his unique look back at the year and this week he looks back on the ups and downs of 2016.
Helping Charlie to make sense of the year's news, TV and online phenomena is Philomena Cunk. In her most challenging interview yet, Philomena tries to understand what it is Professor Brian Cox is actually saying.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 27th December 2016Screenwipe 2016: When is it, and how can I watch it?
Charlie Brooker's take on a year of news and television may be the most highly-anticipated yet.
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 27th December 2016Charlie Brooker interview
Britain has always been fond of its cranks and cynics, and soon TVGoHome was drawing more than a hundred thousand readers a month. Seventeen years later, it is hard not to see the website, which Charlie Brooker retired in 2002, as the prototype for Black Mirror.
Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23rd November 2016The US election is NOT an episode of Black Mirror
Many have compared Donald Trump's victory to Charlie Brooker's dark sci-fi series - but who's laughing now?
Huw Fullerton, Radio Times, 9th November 2016Charlie Brooker: 'The more horrible, the funnier'
'The more horrible an idea, the funnier I find it'. As the anthology series Black Mirror returns, its creator explains what fuels the show's twisted tales - and tells us where we're going wrong with technology.
John Robinson, The Guardian, 14th October 2016