Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker recently enlisted the help of AI chatbot ChatGPT to create an episode of his popular anthology series. The experiment, however, didn't quite pan out as hoped, with Brooker telling Empire Magazine the AI's efforts were, in his words, "shit." — Read the rest
The 2019 Nebula Awards were announced and presented last night in Los Angeles: the prize for best novel went to Mary Robinette Kowal (previously for The Calculating Stars.
As always, Charlie "Screen Wipe/Nathan Barley/Black Mirror" Brooker manages to sum up every single terrible thing about the year that was with gut-busting hilarity.
I somehow missed the fact that Charlie "Black Mirror" Brooker's brilliant, sweary, hilarious show Weekly Wipe had returned for a third season.
A 2009 installment of Newswipe shows how the 24-hour news-cycle is part of the system that gives rise to mass shootings.
Charlie Brooker's commentary on Gadaffi's erratic atrocities — and the western leaders who've kissed up to him over the years — from last week's Ten O'Clock Live is some of the most nose-milk-spurting material ever aired. I wish that all of Ten O'Clock Live's clips were on YouTube, as it would be amazing blogfodder — the show is better than The Daily Show most weeks, IMO (I've asked, C4 say their lawyers won't let them because there are clips of the BBC, Sky, etc, which is some pretty weird fair dealing analysis). — Read the rest
Writing in the Guardian, Charlie Brooker contemplates the mystery of the American myth of a "Ground Zero Mosque":
— Read the restThe planned "ultra-mosque" will be a staggering 5,600ft tall – more than five times higher than the tallest building on Earth – and will be capped with an immense dome of highly-polished solid gold, carefully positioned to bounce sunlight directly toward the pavement, where it will blind pedestrians and fry small dogs.
Charlie Brooker — the curmudgeonly comic TV critic genius who gave us TV Go Home and Screen Burn (Americans: think "Lester Bangs for television") — has a new BBC4 video series called "Screen Wipe" in which he sits on his sofa and screams abuse at his television. — Read the rest
Get ready to dive into the sixth season of the groundbreaking anthology series Black Mirror, set to premiere on June 15, 2023. Netflix just dropped a trailer with five episodes that explore the dark side of technology and its impact on society. — Read the rest
It's been a minute since we got a new "Black Mirror" season, so it's exciting to see that Netflix dropped the Season 6 teaser trailer today. For reference, the last season of Charlie Brooker's twisted sci-fi anthology premiered way back in 2019. — Read the rest
Apparently, Charlie Brooker has put Season 6 of Black Mirror on hold because he fears that reality has caught up with the dystopian series.
Picking up on that, a Madrid ad agency, called Brother, came up with a mock ad for the show. — Read the rest
In 2015, Charlie Brooker deconstructed economics news reports in this grimly amusing pastiche — a sequel to his earlier boiling-down of feature news reports.
I'd like to see Charlie and Emily Surname do this for Covid-19 updates.
I hope that Gus Johnson's deconstruction of how cable TV news covers viral videos will itself be reported upon in this style by cable TV news.
Take any excuse to watch Charlie Brooker's deconsctruction of a similar TV news segment formula from the UK:
Have you ever wondered Why Do Reporters Talk Like That? — Read the rest
The 2017 Hugo nominees were announced yesterday; attendees at this year's World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, California will choose from among them to pick this year's Hugo Award winners.
This morning, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker and Random Penguin announced that he's editing a series of anthologies of Black Mirror novellas; I'm writing one of the three stories for the first volume, along with Claire North, and Sylvain Neuvel. — Read the rest
You may know Charlie Brooker only through his amazing Black Mirror programs, but savvy Brookerfen are avid viewers of his Screenwipe/Newswipe shows — acerbic, potty-mouthed media criticism shows that feature talents of Barry Shitpeas and Philomena Cunk, a thick-skulled, oblivious, amazing deadpan comedic persona of Diane Morgan.
Literally one of the most exciting moments I had in 2016 was the realization, well into the year, that Charlie Brooker — creator of Black Mirror, Nathan Barley and TV Go Home — was going to have to make sense of the entire annus horribilis in his annual Screenwipe special (previously).
Charlie Brooker's back, and so are six of his stories: "The Twilight Zone for the digital age," as The New Yorker put it. (Previously)
John Oliver was incandescent on the subject of Net Neutrality, Time Warner and Comcast on Saturday, and he has a new, less-boring term for Net Neutrality: "Cable Company Fuckery." This is not only brilliant, it's hilarious. John Oliver is a perfect blend of Jon Stewart and Charlie Brooker. — Read the rest
