Charlie Brooker
- 54 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 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 2016Got a question for Charlie Brooker? We want to hear it
Ahead of the third series of Black Mirror, Charlie is returning to The Guardian to answer readers' questions.
The Guardian, 11th October 2016Black Mirror enlists the best composers for series 3
Some of the best names working in the business are to lend a creative hand for the new series.
Jacob Stolworthy, The Independent, 3rd August 2016Pokémon Go + Black Mirror = dark comedy?
Fans of the spooky, Twilight Zone-inspired British sci-fi series Black Mirror might appreciate this dark bit of parody that takes one of the most disturbing episodes of the show, "White Bear," and mashes it up with the world we presently live in in which bizarre, zombified humans are all wandering around with their cell phones raised, seeming to record everything and randomly congregating in random places because of some rare Pokémon.
Jay Barmann, sfist.com, 19th July 2016