Inside Black Mirror: The Illustrated Oral History

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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. Bromwich, Kathryn (8 July 2023). "On my radar: Charlie Brooker's cultural highlights". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 October 2023. With Daniel Maier, he co-wrote a spoof crime drama for Sky1 called A Touch of Cloth, which first broadcast on 26 August 2012 and starred John Hannah and Suranne Jones, both notable for having starred in genuine crime dramas. [63] Two further series were broadcast in 2013 and 2014, with the latter starring Karen Gillan.

Close (16 October 2010). "Charlie Brooker Leaving Screen Burn Column". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 16 October 2010. 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.British Press Awards 2009: The full list of winners". Press Gazette. 1 April 2009. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010 . Retrieved 16 January 2010. Brooker's 17 February 2007 column". The Guardian. London. 17 February 2007 . Retrieved 16 January 2010.

Together with Brass Eye's Chris Morris, Brooker co-wrote the sitcom Nathan Barley, based on a character from one of TVGoHome's fictional programmes. The show was broadcast in 2005 and focused on the lives of a group of London media 'trendies'. The same year, he was also on the writing team of the Channel 4 sketch show Spoons, produced by Zeppotron. Article from the Guardian featuring in Voices in Speech and Writing: An Anthology, 2014 ( ISBN 978-1-4479-8176-3) [19] Screenwipe editions have focused on a themes including American television, TV news, advertising and children's programmes. The last of these involved a segment where Brooker joined the cast of Toonattik for one week, playing the character of "Angry News Guy". An episode focused on scriptwriting, which saw several of British television's most prominent writers interviewed by Brooker.Kemp, Ella (1 December 2020). "Charlie Brooker and Hugh Grant making Netflix mocukmentary about 2020". NME . Retrieved 1 December 2020. And the series is great because it’s about technology but also about the people. The technology was only the catalyst for showing general problems, dilemmas and emotions: fear, helplessness, inertia, good intentions, bad intentions, jealousy, uncertainty, hate, betrayal, failure and many many more. Every episode is a volcano of emotions. This book doesn’t have a plot. It’s just the set of the interviews with Charlie Brooker, his right hand Annabel Jones and the rest of the series authors and actors from every episode. It’s kind of a crowd because every part it’s the almost separate staff and the original story. 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 May 2012, Brooker was interviewed for Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast series. [23] In 2019, he made a second appearance on the podcast, which was released during March 2020.Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe was first broadcast on BBC Two on 31 January 2013. [32] It is an amalgam of Screenwipe and Newswipe, with sections focusing on recent news, television shows and films. Along with the regular cast, it also features guests who discuss recent events. [33] Two more series followed in 2014 and 2015. [34] [35] [36] [37] A 60-minute special, Election Wipe, aired on 6 May 2015, focused on the events running up to the 2015 general election. [38] 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. We were supposed to be making a new Philomena Cunk show' ". Chortle. 14 May 2020 . Retrieved 14 July 2020. Brooker left the "Screen Burn" column in 2010. In the final column, [17] he noted how increasingly difficult he found it to reconcile his role in mainstream media and TV production with his writing as a scabrous critic or to objectively criticise those he increasingly worked and socialised with. Longtime covering contributor Grace Dent took over the column. He continued to contribute other articles to The Guardian on a regular basis, his most recent comment column appearing in May 2015. Bafta TV Awards 2017: All the winners and nominees". BBC News. BBC. 14 May 2017 . Retrieved 4 July 2017.