With a new series about cinema

Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker are reuniting for Cunk on Cinema, another in their series of faux documentaries.

Production started on the three half-hour episodes this week, with Cunk (Morgan) asking experts about the history of cinema.

In character, she said: ‘Cinema 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 Psycho, Death playing chess in that Swedish thing, and Tom Selleck's glistening moustache in Three Men And A Little Lady, to name but all three of the only examples I can think of at the moment. 

‘There will, unfortunately, be some bits in black and white, but we'll keep that to the barest minimum.’

Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker, who has written the show, made reference to OpenAI’s soon-to-be-axed video AI project Sora in his quote.

He said:  ‘Now that Sora has killed off Hollywood and itself (presumably as part of a murder-suicide pact), it's the perfect time to look back at two hundred centuries of cinema, in the company of an idiot we’re apparently cursed to employ: Philomena Cunk.’

Brooker has previously written Cunk with Joel Morris, Jason Hazeley and Morgan herself,  but the others are not credited this time around. 

Cunk On Cinema will debut on BBC iPlayer and BBC Two in the UK and Ireland and on Netflix elsewhere.

Jon Petrie, director of comedy at the BBC said: ‘Philomena Cunk is back! As our leading intrepid documentary filmmaker, who better to investigate the world of cinema? 

‘This series follows in the hugely successful footsteps of other Cunk projects, so we can’t wait to see what she unearths this time around.’

 The show, described as Cunk’s ‘most glamorous series to date’ is being made by Pacesetter Productions.  

The company previously produced Black Mirror series six and seven and will also be making Brooker’s new crime project, a satire of crime thrillers in which   Paddy Considine stars as a tormented detective from the Northern city of Bleakford, who ventures down to London on a mission to catch a ritualistic serial killer before they run out of people to kill.  

Lena Headey and Georgina Campbell co-star in the as-yet-untitled project for Netflix, which Brooker wrote with Hazeley and Morris alongside  Ben Caudell,  Emer Kenny and Daniel Maier.

Published: 9 Apr 2026