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‘Cunk on Cinema’ Trailer: Diane Morgan’s Philomena Cunk Returns for Film-Focused Mockumentary Series
Diane Morgan returns as Philomena Cunk in a six-part mockumentary series about the history of cinema. The programme examines film from the invention of the camera through 1960s New Wave cinema and CGI to the future of artificial intelligence, using Cunk’s deadpan, ill-informed questions to satirise documentary conventions.
Each episode runs for 15 minutes, with the series arriving on BBC iPlayer and BBC Two in the UK and Ireland, and on Netflix elsewhere, on 15 November. Cunk interviews 23 experts, including Michael Bay, Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Kermode; Jim Al-Khalili and Ashley Jackson also return from earlier Cunk documentaries. The series was created by Morgan and Charlie Brooker and directed by Al Campbell.
In short
- Philomena Cunk returns to explore cinema in a six-part mockumentary.
- The 15-minute episodes debut on 15 November.
- Cunk interviews 23 experts, including Michael Bay and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Explained simply
Philomena Cunk is a fictional television presenter played by Diane Morgan. Her documentaries imitate serious factual programmes, while Cunk asks experts naïve or mistaken questions; the humour comes from the gap between their knowledge and her confident delivery.
The new series uses that format to explore how cinema developed, from early cameras to modern digital effects and possible uses of artificial intelligence. Its interviews include filmmakers, actors and other experts, whose explanations offer context while the programme pokes fun at the conventions of documentary television.
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