{"id":615856,"date":"2026-09-14T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615856\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:30:17","slug":"philomena-cunk-first-look-unveiled-by-bbc-for-most-glamorous-series-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615856\/","title":{"rendered":"Philomena Cunk first-look unveiled by BBC for \u201cmost glamorous\u201d series to date"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC has given fans a glimpse at Diane Morgan\u2019s return as Philomena Cunk for a brand new series.<\/p>\n

The beloved documentary-maker<\/a>, who was first portrayed by comedian Morgan in Charlie Brooker\u2019s Weekly Wipe back in 2013 before returning in acclaimed shows including Cunk on Britain and Cunk on Life, will soon be back on our screens in Cunk on Cinema<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The new series will see the ill-informed interviewer examine the world\u2019s love affair with movies, and be her \u201cmost glamorous series to date\u201d, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n

The synopsis also teases that the new series will \u201cchart the history of cinema\u201d, with Cunk tracing the invention of the camera, to the New Wave filmmakers of the ’60s, right up to the entrance of CGI, as well as exploring what the future of AI could mean.<\/p>\n

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Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk.\u00a0BBC\/Pacesetter\/Al Campbell<\/p>\n

The documentary-maker will \u201cattempt to demystify it all while sitting in lumpy seats with stale popcorn, asking herself where did cinema come from? And why? What does it want? And why can\u2019t it tell us?\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunk will be joined by a star-studded line-up from across the industry in the new series, including Michael Bay (director, Transformers), Benedict Cumberbatch (actor, Sherlock), Daniel Pemberton (composer, Project Hail Mary), Steven E de Souza (screenwriter, Die Hard) and Seamus McGarvey (cinematographer, Avengers Assemble).<\/p>\n

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Other big names set to appear include Mark Kermode (critic), Mark Cousins (film maker), Isabel Stevens (managing editor of Sight and Sound magazine), Helen O\u2019Hara (editor at large at Empire Magazine), Catherine Bray (critic at Screen International) and Bryony Dixon (curator of silent film, BFI).<\/p>\n

The series, which is executive produced by Brooker, Morgan and Sam Ward, is coming soon to BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. It will debut on BBC iPlayer and BBC Two and on Netflix outside of the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n

Check out more of our Comedy<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC has given fans a glimpse at Diane Morgan\u2019s return as Philomena Cunk for a brand new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-615856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}