{"id":391373,"date":"2026-04-10T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391373\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:26:09","slug":"bbc-netflix-announce-charlie-brooker-and-diane-morgans-cunk-on-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391373\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC, Netflix announce Charlie Brooker and Diane Morgan’s Cunk On Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having previously defeated the people of Britain, the population of the Earth, and the very concept of life<\/a> itself, investigative journalist Philomena Cunk has now set both her own sights, and presumably those of her mate Paul, on the movies. This is per Variety<\/a>, which reports that a new three-part special from the groundbreaking reporter\/fake comedy character played by comedian Diane Morgan, Cunk On Cinema, is now in the works.<\/p>\n

For the unfamiliar, Morgan, as Cunk, has been deadpanning her way through the world for more than a decade at this point, having originated the character\u2014who tackles interviews and walk-and-talk segments alike with the guileless charm (and also the researching and fact-checking skills) of a small child\u2014on Black Mirror\u00a0creator Charlie Brooker\u2019s BBC Two show Charlie Brooker\u2019s Weekly Wipe.\u00a0 That grew into a number of popular TV specials (that even some light searching will probably dig up for you on YouTube; Cunk On Shakespeare is a favorite) before going international with Cunk On Earth, which was produced by Brooker\u2019s pals at Netflix as well as the BBC.<\/p>\n

That same setup is now underpinning\u00a0Cunk On Cinema, which will presumably also follow much of the same formula of Morgan\u2019s earlier efforts, combining rapid-fire absurd explanations of cinematic history with interview segments in which Morgan asks lightly-prepped experts some of the most baffling questions that Britain\u2019s best comedy brains can formulate.<\/p>\n

True to form, Philomena herself issued a statement in response to news of the new series, stating that,<\/p>\n

Cinema has given the world some of the most profound, memorable, and moving visual moments in its unswerving depiction of the human condition: the shower scene in Psycho, Death playing chess in that Swedish thing, and Tom Selleck\u2019s glistening moustache in Three Men And A Little Lady, to name but all three of the only examples I can think of at the moment. There will, unfortunately, be some bits in black and white, but we\u2019ll keep that to the barest minimum.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Brooker also got in on the fun, saying that, \u201cNow that Sora has killed off Hollywood and itself<\/a> (presumably as part of a murder-suicide pact), it\u2019s the perfect time to look back at two hundred centuries of cinema, in the company of an idiot we\u2019re apparently cursed to employ: Philomena Cunk.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Cunk On Cinema\u00a0is currently in production; no word yet on when the three-part series will arrive on Netflix and BBC Two.<\/p>\n

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