{"id":125547,"date":"2025-09-09T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125547\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:28:11","slug":"charlie-brooker-sets-crime-thriller-series-at-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125547\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Brooker Sets Crime Thriller Series at Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/charlie-brooker\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charlie-brooker\" data-tag=\"charlie-brooker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Brooker<\/a> is taking a break from his \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d duties with <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> to embark on something a little different at the streamer: a four-part detective series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNow in production, the \u2018Untitled Charlie Brooker Project\u2019 (unsurprisingly, a working title) is described in the logline as a \u201cstunningly original crime thriller in which a tormented detective from the Northern city of Bleakford ventures down to London on a mission to catch a ritualistic serial killer before they run out of people to kill.\u201d As it notes, the show: \u201cContains blood and frowning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLeading the show will be <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/paddy-considine\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paddy-considine\" data-tag=\"paddy-considine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paddy Considine<\/a> (\u201cHouse of the Dragon,\u201d \u201cMobLand\u201d), <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/georgina-campbell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_georgina-campbell\" data-tag=\"georgina-campbell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgina Campbell<\/a> (\u201cBarbarian,\u201d \u201cWatchers\u201d) and Lena Headey (\u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d \u201cThe Abandons\u201d). \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d fans will likely spot that Campbell is an alumnus, having starred in the much-loved episode \u201cHang the DJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m beyond thrilled to be saying these words for the press release. I\u2019ve dreamt of providing a quote ever since I was a young foetus, and now here I am doing it,\u201d said Brooker. \u201cI\u2019d pinch myself, but like all of us, I\u2019m terrified that if I do that, I might wake up and discover 2025 has all been a magical dream. Please watch my show. I am begging you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBrooker created the series, which he wrote alongside Ben Caudell, Jason Hazeley, Emer Kenny, Daniel Maier and Joel Morris. Victoria Asare Archer provided additional material. Longtime Brooker collaborator Al Campbell (\u201cScreenwipe,\u201d \u201cNewswipe, \u201cDeath To 2020\u201d) will direct. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRichard Webb produces, while Brooker, Jessica Rhoades and Annabel Jones exec producer. Mark Kinsella co-exec produces. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe as-yet-untitled series isn\u2019t Brooker\u2019s first foray into the world of crime drama. He co-created Sky\u2019s police procedural satire \u201cA Touch of Cloth,\u201d starring John Hannah and Suranne Jones, which ran across three seasons from 2012-2014. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Brooker is taking a break from his \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d duties with Netflix to embark on something a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43339,96,59,27065,392,59527,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-125547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-charlie-brooker","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-georgina-campbell","tag-netflix","tag-paddy-considine","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}