{"id":660815,"date":"2026-10-29T17:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/660815\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:02:09","slug":"cunk-on-cinema-trailer-diane-morgans-philomena-cunk-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/660815\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cunk on Cinema’ Trailer: Diane Morgan’s Philomena Cunk Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe first trailer for \u201cCunk on Cinema,\u201d a new mockumentary series starring Diane Morgan<\/a> as her British comic character Philomena Cunk<\/a>, has been released. The six 15-minute episodes will debut on BBC iPlayer and BBC Two, and on Netflix outside of the U.K. and Ireland, on Nov. 15<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Al Campbell, \u201cCunk on Cinema\u201d is billed as Cunk\u2019s \u201cmost glamorous outing yet\u201d as \u201cshe charts the history of cinema, from the invention of the camera and the New Wave filmmakers of the 1960s right up to the entrance of CGI and what the future of AI holds,\u201d per the show\u2019s official description. \u201cCunk will attempt 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

\n\tCunk will come face-to-face with 23 experts, including Michael Bay, Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Pemberton, Steven E. de Souza, Seamus McGarvey, Mark Kermode, Mark Cousins, Isabel Stevens, Helen O\u2019Hara, Catherine Bray, Bryony Dixon, David Rubin, Jim Dowdall, Kaleem Aftab and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tMorgan and \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d creator Charlie Brooker created the character of Cunk, who is known for hosting several satirical documentaries and for her deadpan style and ill-informed questions. Jim Al-Khalili and Ashley Jackson return to the new series from \u201cCunk on Life\u201d and \u201cCunk on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCinema 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 \u2018Psycho,\u2019 Death playing chess in that Swedish thing, and Tom Selleck\u2019s glistening moustache in \u2018Three Men And A Little Lady,\u2019 to name but all three of the only examples I can think of at the moment,\u201d said Cunk when Variety exclusively revealed <\/a>the new series. \u201cThere will, unfortunately, be some bits in black and white, but we\u2019ll keep that to the barest minimum.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCunk On Cinema\u201d is a Pacesetter Production for BBC iPlayer and BBC Two. Brooker, Morgan, Jessica Rhoades and Sam Ward serve as executive producers.<\/p>\n

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