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Charlie Brooker

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Charlton "Charlie" Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is an English humourist, critic, author, screenwriter, producer, and television presenter. He is the creator and co-showrunner of the anthology series Black Mirror and has written for programmes such as Brass Eye, The 11 O'Clock Show, and Nathan Barley. He has presented a number of television shows, including Screenwipe, Gameswipe, Newswipe, Weekly Wipe, and 10 O'Clock Live. He also wrote the five-part horror drama Dead Set. He has written comment pieces for The Guardian and is one of four creative directors of the production company Zeppotron.

Charlton Brooker was born on 3 March 1971 in Reading, Berkshire. He grew up in a relaxed Quaker household in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire. He first worked as a writer and cartoonist for Oink!, a comic produced in the late 1980s. After attending Wallingford School, he attended the Polytechnic of Central London (which became the University of Westminster during his time there), studying for a BA in Media Studies. He claims that he did not graduate because his dissertation was written on video games, which was not an acceptable topic. Brooker listed his comedic influences as Monty Python, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Chris Morris, and Vic Reeves.

From 1999 to 2000, Brooker played hooded expert 'the Pundit' in the short-lived show Games Republic, hosted by Trevor and Simon on BSkyB.

In 2000, Brooker was one of the writers of the Channel 4 show The 11 O'Clock Show and a co-host (with Gia Milinovich) on BBC Knowledge's The Kit, a low-budget programme dedicated to gadgets and technology (1999-2000). In 2001, he was one of several writers on Channel 4's Brass Eye special on the subject of paedophilia.

In 2003, Brooker wrote an episode entitled "How to Watch Television" for Channel 4's The Art Show. The episode was presented in the style of a public information film and was partly animated.

Together with Brass Eye's Chris Morris, Brooker co-wrote the sitcom Nathan Barley, based on a character from one of TVGoHome's fictional programmes. The show was broadcast in 2005 and focused on the lives of a group of London media 'trendies'. The same year, he was also on the writing team of the Channel 4 sketch show Spoons, produced by Zeppotron.

In 2006, Brooker began writing and presenting the television series Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on BBC Four, a TV review programme in a similar style to his Screen Burn columns in The Guardian. After an initial pilot series of three editions in April, the programme returned later in the year for a second run of four episodes plus Christmas and Review of the Year specials in December 2006. A third series followed in February 2007 with a fourth broadcast in September 2007, followed by a Review of the Year in December 2007. The fifth series started in November 2008 and was followed by another Review of the Year special. This series was also the first to be given a primetime repeat on terrestrial television (BBC Two), in January 2009.

In December 2011, three episodes of Brooker's Black Mirror, a science fiction anthology series, aired on Channel 4 to largely positive reviews. As well as creating the show, Brooker wrote the first episode and co-wrote the second with his wife Konnie Huq. He also wrote all three episodes of series two. In September 2015, Netflix commissioned a third season of 12 episodes, with Channel 4 losing the rights to the programme A trailer for the third season was released in October 2016. This was later split into two series of six episodes. The third season was released on Netflix worldwide on 21 October 2016. Brooker has solely written four of the episodes in series three, and has co-written the remaining two.

Beginning on 11 May 2010, Brooker presented a 5-part BBC Radio 4 series celebrating failure titled So Wrong It's Right, in which guests compete to pitch the worst possible ideas for new franchises and give the 'most wrong' answer to a question. Also featured are guests' recollections about their own personal life failures and their complaints about life in general in a round called 'This Putrid Modern Hell'. Guests have included David Mitchell, Lee Mack, Josie Long, Frank Skinner, Helen Zaltzman, Holly Walsh, Graham Linehan and Richard Herring. The second series began on 10 March 2011, and a third was broadcast in May 2012. In common with Screenwipe's use of a Grandaddy track (A.M. 180) from the album Under the Western Freeway as its theme tune, So Wrong It's Right uses another track from the same album, Summer Here Kids.
BornMarch 3, 1971
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Charlie Brooker and the "Black Mirror" crew pose with the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special during the 69th Emmy Awards
Charlie Brooker, Ted Sarandos, and Annabel Jones at an event for The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards (2019)
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, and Russell McLean at an event for The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards (2019)
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, and Russell McLean at an event for The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards (2019)
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, and Russell McLean at an event for The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards (2019)
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, and Russell McLean at an event for The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards (2019)
Charlie Brooker, Dave Karger, Annabel Jones, and Russell McLean at an event for IMDb at the Emmys (2016)
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, and Russell McLean at an event for IMDb at the Emmys (2016)
Charlie Brooker, Bob Odenkirk, William Bridges, and Aidy Bryant at an event for The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards (2018)
Charlie Brooker and William Bridges at an event for The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards (2018)
Charlie Brooker, Tim Kash, and William Bridges at an event for IMDb at the Emmys (2016)
Charlie Brooker and William Bridges at an event for IMDb at the Emmys (2016)

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Black Mirror (2011)
Black Mirror
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Fionn Whitehead in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
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  • Writer
  • 2018
Dead Set (2008)
Dead Set
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Cat Burglar (2022)
Cat Burglar
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  • 2022

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Writer

  • Black Mirror (2011)
    Black Mirror
    • ...
  • Diane Morgan in Cunk on Earth (2022)
    Cunk on Earth
  • Cat Burglar (2022)
    Cat Burglar
    • (creator)
  • Death to 2021 (2021)
    Death to 2021
  • Death to 2020 (2020)
    Death to 2020
    • (creator)
  • Screenwipe (2006)
    Screenwipe
  • Fionn Whitehead in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
    Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
  • Diane Morgan in Cunk on Britain (2016)
    Cunk on Britain
  • Diane Morgan in Cunk on Shakespeare (2016)
    Cunk on Shakespeare
  • Charlie Brooker in Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe (2013)
    Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
  • John Hannah and Suranne Jones in A Touch of Cloth (2012)
    A Touch of Cloth
  • How Video Games Changed the World (2013)
    How Video Games Changed the World
  • Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr, Lauren Laverne, and David Mitchell in 10 O'Clock Live (2011)
    10 O'Clock Live
  • Them from That Thing
  • How TV Ruined Your Life (2011)
    How TV Ruined Your Life

Producer

  • Black Mirror (2011)
    Black Mirror
  • Diane Morgan in Cunk on Earth (2022)
    Cunk on Earth
  • Cat Burglar (2022)
    Cat Burglar
  • Death to 2021 (2021)
    Death to 2021
  • Attack of the Hollywood Cliches! (2021)
    Attack of the Hollywood Cliches!
  • Death to 2020 (2020)
    Death to 2020
  • Screenwipe (2006)
    Screenwipe
  • Diane Morgan in Cunk & Other Humans on 2019 (2019)
    Cunk & Other Humans on 2019
  • Fionn Whitehead in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
    Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
  • Diane Morgan in Cunk on Britain (2016)
    Cunk on Britain
  • Mr Biffo's Found Footage (2017)
    Mr Biffo's Found Footage
  • How Video Games Changed the World (2013)
    How Video Games Changed the World
  • John Hannah and Suranne Jones in A Touch of Cloth (2012)
    A Touch of Cloth
  • Dead Set (2008)
    Dead Set

Additional Crew

  • You Have Been Watching (2009)
    You Have Been Watching
  • Nathan Barley (2005)
    Nathan Barley
  • Jimmy Carr, Sean Lock, and Dave Spikey in 8 Out of 10 Cats (2005)
    8 Out of 10 Cats

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Did "Black Mirror" Overdeliver on Season 5?
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Did "Black Mirror" Overdeliver on Season 5?
What We Know About "Black Mirror" Season 5 ... So Far
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What We Know About "Black Mirror" Season 5 ... So Far
"Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" Breaks New Ground With Emmy Win
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"Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" Breaks New Ground With Emmy Win
Surreal Win for "Black Mirror" Writers
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Surreal Win for "Black Mirror" Writers
"Black Mirror" Tackles the Lighthearted and the Very Dark
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"Black Mirror" Tackles the Lighthearted and the Very Dark

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    • March 3, 1971
    • Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
    • Konnie HuqJuly 26, 2010 - present (2 children)

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    Attended the University of Westminster in London, though not graduated due to the rejection of his dissertation.
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    [on the closure of Television Centre in 2013] The Corporation claimed changes in technology had rendered many of TV Centre's functions obsolete. For instance, suspicious old men now largely meet children using the Internet.
    • Outspoken and brutally honest critical analysis

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