Starring English actress and comedian Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk, the show follows the ‘clueless’ interviewer and commentator as she takes a blockbuster journey through film history.
Along the way, she confounds cinema experts with hard hitting questions, from the invention of the camera to the entry of CGI and the future of AI in the field.
The compelling list of interviewees includes director Michael Bay (Transformers, 2007), actor Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, 2010 to 2017) and composer Daniel Pemberton (Project Hail Mary, 2026), among others.
The character, commonly referred to as Cunk, first appeared as a middle-class lifestyle blogger on Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, a British series that ran from 2013 to 2016 and featured presenter Charlie commenting on a range of recent programmes, events, games and films.
Since then, Charlie has directed a number of Cunk-centred projects, including Cunk on Shakespeare (2016) and five-part historical mockumentary Cunk on Britain (2018), which gained viral traction for the interviewer’s deadpan interactions with academicians.
Ahead of the upcoming release, the two creative talents looked back on the character’s reception, which was the opposite of what Diane expected.
“I was told by people on the programme that I would get a huge backlash because I wasn’t Charlie,” she said in an interview.
“They said, brace yourself for a lot of negative comments on social media because people just want Charlie. And now it’s the other way round,” she added.
Previously, Diane has starred in the 2024 animated film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl as local news reporter Onya Doorstep. She also features as Gemma Nerrick, an average citizen, in the mockumentary Death to 2020 and its sequel Death to 2021, both written by Charlie.
The screenwriter is known for his dystopian anthology series Black Mirror (2016), followed by Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018), Netflix’s first live-action interactive film, which let viewers make binary choices for the main character using their remote or device. The films humorously tackled diverse topics, from the Covid pandemic to the US presidential elections.
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