Charlie Brooker

Black Mirror episode 1 spoiler-free review

Charlie Brooker offers a searing, look at modern society in a three-part drama series, Black Mirror. It doesn't always make for easy or cheerful viewing, but then again, we wouldn't expect anything less from a mind as creatively acerbic as Brooker's.

Charlie Brooker's 'Black Mirror' preview

Overall The National Anthem kept us second-guessing, delivering several well thought out twists with some fantastic performances. However, we can't help but feel that the strength of the message would've been a lot more powerful had the threat been less comical, though that isn't really Brooker's style, and that's why we love him.

Charlie Brooker rants about this year's Xmas adverts

Given the fuss the audience were making over the John Lewis advert, the tears they shed, you'd think they were watching footage of shoeless orphans being kicked face-first into a propeller. But no. They were looking at an advert for a shop.

Robert Webb: 'I auditioned for Nathan Barley'

Robert Webb has revealed that he auditioned for Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker's 2005 sitcom Nathan Barley.

Charlie Brooker: David Cameron is a lizard

Graeme Archer of the Daily Telegraph was less than impressed with my last column in which I called David Cameron a lizard. I fear in his rush to reprimand the "Modern Left", he has overlooked one key fact: David Cameron is a lizard.

Charlie Brooker & Twitter: To flame or not to flame?

Having enraged half of Twitter this week by comparing David Cameron to a lizard, Charlie Brooker is now retweeting his flamers in a bid to shame them. So what is the correct etiquette when you think a celeb is talking crap?

There are times when you wonder if this show wouldn't work just as well as a head-to-head between David Mitchell and Lee Mack - everyone else is making up the numbers really, and they know it. You can imagine a programme where the two of them simply sat there and mocked each other's different worlds, and a very funny show it would be.

But probably not as funny as this is, because it's often the rogue elements that make it - such as Nigel Havers this week claiming he once went out with a flamenco dancer who turned out to be a man. Mack's flights of fancy as he interrogates that story are inspired, as is Mitchell's cross-examination of Charlie Brooker's far-fetched Valentine's Day anecdote. I mean, what kind of teenager was he?

Box set club: Nathan Barley

Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris's excellent sitcom isn't quite the museum piece you'd imagine - it's well futile.