Charlie Brooker
- 53 years old
- English
- Writer, executive producer, presenter, satirist and producer
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Philomena Cunk returns to BBC Two
Philomena Cunk is returning to BBC Two for Cunk On Earth, a series investigating science and technology.
British Comedy Guide, 20th September 2021Charlie Brooker interview
'Succession made me furious with envy'.
Sam Wolfson, The Guardian, 18th September 2021Charlie Brooker takes aim at movie clichés for Netflix
Charlie Brooker has made a new special for Netflix looking at film tropes. Attack Of The Hollywood Clichés!, hosted by Rob Lowe and featuring a range of A-List talent, will be published on 28th September
British Comedy Guide, 24th August 2021Comics mustn't be silenced to avoid hurting feelings
Mocking public figures is essential in a democracy - and people like Nicky Campbell have to accept that, who complained of depression after being mocked by Charlie Brooker.
Louis Wise, The Telegraph, 21st July 2021Nicky Campbell: Brooker comments made me depressed
TV presenter Nicky Campbell said he spent two days in bed with depression following "really vicious" comments from satirist and Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, which Brooker wrote in his newspaper columns and for Screenwipe.
Keiran Southern, PA, Yahoo, 13th July 2021BAFTA TV Awards 2021 nominations
Ghosts, Inside No. 9, Man Like Mobeen and This Country are amongst the nominees in the BAFTA TV Awards 2021.
British Comedy Guide, 28th April 2021Royal Television Society Awards 2021 nominations
Brassic, Sex Education, The Young Offenders, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Sophie Willan, Ruth Jones, Youssef Kerkour, O-T Fagbenle and Paul Chahidi are amongst the nominees for the RTS Programme Awards 2021.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd March 2021Hugh Grant almost played PM in The National Anthem
Hugh Grant, who played the Prime Minister in Love Actually, almost played Black Mirror's Prime Minister who has sex with a pig.
Laurence Mozafari, Digital Spy, 12th January 2021Many had high hopes when they saw the name Charlie Brooker linked to Netflix and a review of 2020: hopes of a Screenwipe of sorts, with frissons of Black Mirror. What we got in Death To 2020 was what some might call politely a salmagundi; what others might describe rudely as a mess.
One problem was that, for all the talent involved, there was no Charlie Brooker talking us drily through. It was as if a Netflix algorithm had somehow conflated this with the US show Saturday Night Live, which, through repetitively pointing out weekly since 2016 that Donald Trump was thick and nasty, famously brought about his 2018 impeachment and subsequent bell tower death.
Lisa Kudrow, Samuel L Jackson, Hugh Grant - all terrific, given the bad lines they were given. Kudrow's spokesperson was funny the first time she challenged with an airy defiance the existence of recorded facts. By the seventh repetition of exactly the same gag... not so much. How many ways are there to say that Joe Biden is "old", and how screamingly amusing will that saying-so of an established fact ever have been in the first place? After the year we wish never was, the recap we wish never was.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 3rd January 2021Death To 2020 review
Charlie Brooker's year-in-review Netflix special should have been an open goal. Instead, says Ed Cumming, it doesn't know whether it is playing to an American audience or a British one, and pleases neither.
Ed Cumming, The Independent, 2nd January 2021