{"id":847607,"date":"2026-09-14T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847607\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:28:11","slug":"philomena-cunk-to-quiz-michael-bay-benedict-cumberbatch-on-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847607\/","title":{"rendered":"Philomena Cunk to Quiz Michael Bay, Benedict Cumberbatch on Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichael Bay and Benedict Cumberbatch are set to face the ill-informed interview style of Philomena Cunk<\/a>, the beloved TV idiot played by Diane Morgan<\/a>, in the comedy creation\u2019s latest outing.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCunk on Cinema,\u201d first announced by Variety earlier this year<\/a>, will see Cunk chart the history of cinema and the world\u2019s love affair with movies in what\u2019s been billed as her \u201cmost glamorous series to date.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA first look from the three-part faux documentary series, from Pacesetter Productions and coming to both the BBC and Netflix, has been released, showcasing Cunk getting to grips what appears to be a Sony Venice Digital Cinema Camera (as used by Bay on \u201c6 Underground\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the description, \u201cCunk on Cinema\u201d will uncover the invention of the camera, to the New Wave filmmakers of the 60s, right up to the entrance of CGI and what the future of AI holds. Cunk will attempt to \u201cdemystify 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\tAlongside Bay and Cumberbatch, others to be quizzed by the ever-confused Cunk will include composer Daniel Pemberton (\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d), screenwriter Steven E. de Souza (\u201cDie Hard,\u201d \u201cCommando\u201d), Oscar-nominated cinematographer Seamus McGarvey (\u201cAvengers Assemble,\u201d \u201cAtonement\u201d), critic Mark Kermode, and documentary-maker and author Mark Cousins (\u201cThe Story of Film: An Odyssey\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCunk on Cinema,\u201d the latest in the British mockumentary television franchise by Charlie Brooker<\/a> for the BBC and Netflix, follows \u201cCunk on Life,\u201d \u201cCunk on Earth,\u201d \u201cCunk on Shakespeare\u201d and \u201cCunk on Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrooker leads a team of writers including Ben Caudell, Erika Ehler, Eli Goldstone, Jason Hazeley, Dan Maier, Morgan, Joel Morris, Michael Odewale, Kali Varghese, and Sam Ward. The director is Al Campbell. Executive producers are Brooker, Jessica Rhoades, Morgan, and Sam Ward. Navi Lamba is the BBC commissioning editor and Mark Kinsella is co-executive producer for Pacesetter Productions. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCunk on Cinema\u201d will debut on BBC iPlayer and BBC Two and on Netflix outside of the U.K. and Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Bay and Benedict Cumberbatch are set to face the ill-informed interview style of Philomena Cunk, the beloved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,185781,310185,88,358562],"class_list":["post-847607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-charlie-brooker","tag-diane-morgan","tag-entertainment","tag-philomena-cunk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}