Britain’s worst interviewer is back, and this time she’s going Hollywood. Diane Morgan‘s most famous creation is headed to Tinseltown in another mockumentary interview series that may finally do what AI and mega-mergers couldn’t, and kill the film industry for good. And if you don’t believe us, ask our mate Paul.
According to reports, Philomena Cunk will return in Cunk on Cinema, a new three-episode series that will debut on Netflix and the BBC. She’s going to examine the history of the medium, from its early days in silence and black and white, to its uncertain AI future. She’ll interview a litany of experts in the field, befuddling them with questions that are almost unimaginably inane. Says Cunk herself, “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.” The series is now in production, but has not yet set a release date. Like previous Cunk appearances, it will be written and produced by Charlie Brooker.
Who Is Philomena Cunk?
Created by British comedian Morgan, Cunk is a deadpan, tweed-clad interviewer who maintains total composure while betraying her complete ignorance of every subject. The character first appeared in 2013 on Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, a review program hosted by Black Mirror creator Brooker. She proved popular enough that she has been spun off into her own series of interview specials and miniseries, starting in 2016 with Cunk on Shakespeare, and followed by Cunk on Christmas and Cunk on Britain. The character broke out internationally in 2023 when Netflix broadcast Cunk on Earth, and subsequently aired the follow-up special Cunk on Life.
Morgan herself can next be seen in the upcoming Disney+ MCU miniseries VisionQuest. She will also be one of the notables providing voices to Duncan Jones‘ animated science fiction film Rogue Trooper.
Cunk on Cinema is now in production, 37 years after the release of unrelated Belgian techno anthem “Pump Up the Jam”; no release date has yet been announced.
via Collider