Table Of ContentCover
About the Book
About the Authors
Title Page
Foreword by Charlie Brooker
SERIES 1
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
FIFTEEN MILLION MERITS
THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF YOU
SERIES 2
BE RIGHT BACK
WHITE BEAR
THE WALDO MOMENT
THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
WHITE CHRISTMAS
SERIES 3
NOSEDIVE
PLAYTEST
SHUT UP AND DANCE
SAN JUNIPERO
MEN AGAINST FIRE
HATED IN THE NATION
SERIES 4
USS CALLISTER
ARKANGEL
CROCODILE
HANG THE DJ
METALHEAD
BLACK MUSEUM
The Future of Black Mirror
Influences and References
Index
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Copyright
About the Book
UNSETTLING
THOUGHT-PROVOKING
TIMELY
Since its shocking debut, Black Mirror has steadily grown to become a global
phenomenon.
Over four series and nineteen films, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones take us
on the Black Mirror journey. Told oral history style, they are joined by the
voices of their many collaborators, including Bryce Dallas Howard, Jon
Hamm, Jodie Foster, Jodie Whittaker, Mackenzie Davis, Gugu Mbatha-
Raw, Alex Lawther, Letitia Wright and dozens more.
Making boundary-pushing television isn’t easy. Each standalone episode is a
challenging leap into the unknown for the viewer — and the creators. This is the
definitive and unfiltered account of how they did it.
‘Back in 2010 the general view of technology was still a rosy one. Now it’s all
gone sour. It’s all gone a bit ‘Black Mirror’, in fact, which is bad for human
civilization, but good publicity for our little TV show. Every cloud, eh?’ –
Charlie Brooker
About the Authors
Charlie Brooker (Author)
Charlie Brooker is an award-winning writer, producer and broadcaster whose
career has spanned television, radio, print, and online media.
Brooker is the creator and writer of Black Mirror, whose fourth season launched
on Netflix at the end of 2017 and won a BAFTA Craft Award and has recently
picked up three BAFTA TV Awards nominations. The critically acclaimed,
mind-bending anthology series originally launched on Channel 4 in 2011 and
over its four seasons has collected awards including Primetime Emmys® for
Outstanding TV Movie and Outstanding Writing for a TV Movie, Producers
Guild of America, Rose D’or, BAFTA, International Emmy® and Peabody.
Charlie has presented numerous television shows including three series of his
BBC Two satirical review show Weekly Wipe, the third series of which was
nominated for the 2015 BAFTA for Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment
Programme, and the annual shindig Charlie Brooker’s End of Year Wipe, which
won a BAFTA for its 2016 edition. Also, Charlie previously presented the
BAFTA-nominated Election Wipe, Gameswipe and Newswipe, which won the
2009 Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment Programme and
the How TV Ruined Your Life series for BBC TWO. He has also presented You
Have Been Watching and 10 O’Clock Live for Channel 4, which he was also
BAFTA-nominated for in 2014.
Charlie is also behind the BBC Two series Cunk on Britain and the BAFTA-
nominated Cunk on Shakespeare with regular Weekly Wipe contributor
Philomena Cunk.
He also co-wrote the critically acclaimed detective spoof A Touch of Cloth for
Sky One. The TV film trilogy starred John Hannah and Suranne Jones and won
the Broadcast Award for Best Comedy and was nominated for the RTS Award
for Best Comedy.
In 2008 Brooker wrote the five-part thriller Dead Set, which starred Jaime
Winstone and Riz Ahmed and was nominated for a Best Drama Serial BAFTA;
and co-wrote with Chris Morris the six-part comedy series Nathan Barley for
Channel 4.
Annabel Jones (Author)
Annabel Jones is a long-term collaborator of Charlie Brooker’s. She serves as
co-show runner and executive producer on Black Mirror, which Brooker created
and writes. In addition to its recent BAFTA TV nominations and BAFTA Craft
win, over its four seasons Black Mirror has garnered awards at the Primetime
Emmys® for Outstanding TV Movie and Outstanding Writing for a TV Movie,
Producers Guild of America, Rose D’or, BAFTA, International Emmy® and
Peabody.
Previously Jones executive produced a number of shows presented by Charlie
Brooker including three series of the BAFTA-nominated BBC Two satirical
review Weekly Wipe; all seven editions of the annual shindig Charlie Brooker’s
End of Year Wipe, which won a BAFTA for its 2016 edition; How Video Games
Changed the World; Newswipe, which won the 2009 Royal Television Society
Award for Best Entertainment Programme; Gameswipe; and the How TV Ruined
Your Life series for BBC Two.
In 2016 Jones was executive producer of the BAFTA-nominated Cunk on
Shakespeare and festive special Cunk on Christmas with regular Weekly Wipe
contributor Philomena Cunk. Between 2012–2014 Jones executive produced the
acclaimed detective spoof trilogy A Touch of Cloth for Sky One, starring John
Hannah and Suranne Jones, which won the Broadcast Award for Best Comedy
and was nominated at the RTS Awards for Best Comedy. In 2008 Jones
executive produced the five-part thriller Dead Set, which starred Jaime Winstone
and Riz Ahmed and was nominated for a Best Drama Serial BAFTA.
Recently, Jones served as executive producer of the BBC Two series Cunk on
Britain.
Jason Arnopp (Co-author)
Jason Arnopp is a novelist and scriptwriter, with a background in journalism for
such titles as Heat, Q, Kerrang!, SFX and Doctor Who Magazine. He wrote the
terrifying 2016 Orbit Books novel The Last Days Of Jack Sparks, acclaimed by
the likes of Ron Howard, Sarah Lotz and Alan Moore. Arnopp’s previous works
include official Doctor Who and Friday The 13th tie-in fiction, Beast in the
Basement: A Sincere Warning About the Entity in Your Home and the non-fiction
title How To Interview Doctor Who, Ozzy Osbourne and Everyone Else. He lives
in Brighton, UK, and can be found on Twitter as @jasonarnopp.
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