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EntertainmentYahoo Celebrity UKCharlie Brooker: No 'get out of jail free card' for Boris Johnson because he had coronavirus
The 'Black Mirror' creator said that PM could still be criticised over his handling of the crisis.
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UKKonnie Huq 'just knew' Charlie Brooker was her Mr Right
The couple married after dating for just nine months.
EntertainmentDigital SpyEven Black Mirror's creator can't find Bandersnatch's post-credits scene
'That's how complicated it got.'
NewsDigital SpyBlack Mirror season 5 is already filming
It might be back on Netflix sooner than expected.
NewsYahoo Celebrity UKJodie Kidd and Linda Robson party at new Gruffalo River Ride at Chessington
How to get a load of celebs to pose with a big weird furry beast – invite them to Chessington! After all who can turn down a day out at Chessers…certainly not us.We joined the likes of Jodie Kidd, Linda Robson, Konnie Huq, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Stacey Solomon for the launch of the new Gruffalo River Ride at the Surrey-based theme park…oh and their children of course.Illustrator Axel Scheffler and author Julia Donaldson were also there and it seems the Gruffalo’s grizzly charms worked a treat.In 2014, the former children’s laureate Donaldson became the first author to record UK sales of more than £10m for five consecutive years, ahead of publishing giants such JK Rowling and Dan Brown, becoming “the only author to record five years in a row of eight-digit revenue since [book sales monitor Nielsen] BookScan records began”.
NewsYahoo News UKCharlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe Review
With his usual blistering satire Charlie Brooker and co. tore into one of the most depressing years in my lifetime, covering everything from Brexit and Trump to celebrity deaths and Bake Off. The highlights included a The Night Manager/Fawlty Towers crossover, Pokemon GO craziness and Brooker’s reactions to Trump’s win, mercilessly taking the be-wigged pussy grabber down.
NewsMike P Williams, TV BloggerBlack Mirror: 2016′s most important series?
If you’ve been keeping up on your television over the course of the topsy turvy year, you’ll no doubt have seen the devastation of Cersei’s monstrous mind in the Game of Thrones finale, the nostalgic brilliance of Stranger Things, as well as the natural wonder that is Planet Earth II. Apart from an array of talented actors ranging from Bryce Dallas Howard, to Jerome Flynn, to Gugu Mbatha-Raw, to Benedict Wong, it’s the stories they tell that are most significant and ultimately so timely.
NewsAlex Moreland (TV Blogger)5 people who should write an episode of Doctor Who
Brooker recently revealed that he’d love to write an episode of Doctor Who – why not let him? The mind behind some of television’s greatest original science fiction would no doubt be an impressive hire for Doctor Who, and Brooker would surely contribute something truly unique. With over 50 years of history to Doctor Who, any opportunity for something truly innovative is one worth taking – and Charlie Brooker could certainly give the show that.
NewsRoss McGNetflix wanted to poach The Great British Bake Off but was ‘too slow off the mark’
Netflix was interested in acquiring The Great British Bake Off, one of its bosses has revealed. The former hit BBC show was snapped up by Channel 4 recently in a deal reportedly worth £75 million. “We knew it was brewing, but I didn’t actually think it would happen,” said Ted Sarandos, who admitted to the Radio Times that Netflix was slow off the mark to try to acquire Bake Off.
NewsAlex Moreland (TV Blogger)What Doctor Who can learn from Black Mirror
They’re both popular British television dramas that have been met with international acclaim and prestige; they’re also both, arguably, science-fiction programs, although of course there’s plenty of room for each to lean into different genres. Arguably, beyond these similarities there’s not a great deal that links these two shows; perhaps, though, that’s what gives one room to learn from the other…
NewsBen Homes, TV BloggerIn Praise of Charlie Brooker
Praise the powers that be, Black Mirror is back on our screens. For those who don’t know, Charlie Brooker is a writer, satirist and broadcaster whose contribution to TV over the last decade has been incomparable. Through his creation and collaboration on the following shows, Brooker has become one of my favourite writers and if like me, you love Black Mirror, then you should check out these wonderful shows too.
NewsAlex Moreland (TV Blogger)Donald Trump, Black Mirror, and America’s Waldo Moment
An authoritarian demagogue who lacks both the experience and the temperament to hold America’s highest national office, Trump can also add racism, misogyny, and a flagrant disregard for the truth to his astonishing list of “qualifications”. While contemplating his meteoric rise to power, though, it occurred to me I’d seen this before: in the Black Mirror episode The Waldo Moment. Charlie Brooker once said that Black Mirror is “about the way we live now – and the way we might be living in 10 minutes’ time if we’re clumsy.” That quote has never felt more painfully applicable than right now, with the clear parallels between Donald Trump and Waldo.
NewsBen Homes, TV BloggerThe Bleak World of Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits
Of all the ideas that are presented to us in the Charlie Brooker produced anthology series ‘Black Mirror’, the most powerful came in the second episode of the first season, 'Fifteen Million Merits’. Set in an undetermined time period in an unknown part of the world, the episode, co-written by Charlie Brooker and Konnie Huq, focuses on the monotonous lives of Bing and Abi, a pair amongst thousands of individuals who must cycle on exercise bikes day and night for food and energy. One night Bing relaxes in his tiny bedroom cubical when an ad for 'Wraith Babes’ pops onto the screen.
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