Charlie Brooker

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Charlie Brooker

Charlton "Charlie" Brooker (born March 3, 1971 in Reading , United Kingdom ) is an English humorist, critic, writer, screenwriter, producer and presenter. He is the creator of the Black Mirror anthology series .

In addition to writing for Black Mirror , Brass Eye , The 11 O'Clock Show, and Nathan Barley , Brooker hosts a number of television shows including Screenwipe , Gameswipe , Newswipe , Weekly Wipe, and 10 O'Clock Live . He also wrote scripts for the five-part horror drama Dead Set . He had two columns and commented on The Guardian newspaper . He is one of the four creative directors of the production company Zeppotron.

Private life

Charlton Brooker was born on March 3, 1971 in Reading . He grew up in a Quaker household in the village of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Oxfordshire. After attending Wallingford School, he attended the Polytechnic of Central London (which during his time there became the University of Westminster ) and took a bachelor's degree in media studies . According to his own account, he did not graduate because the topic of his dissertation, video games, was not accepted. Brooker counts Monty Python , The Young Ones , Blackadder , Chris Morris and Vic Reeves among his comedic influences.

Brooker met during filming of Screenwipe the former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq know. They were married on July 26, 2010 at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas , Nevada. The two have two sons together: Covey (born 2012) and Huxley (born February 2014).

Brooker is an atheist and contributed to the book The Atheist's Guide to Christmas . However, due to his family background, he also referred to himself as a Quaker .

Career

author

In the mid-1990s, Brooker wrote for PC Zone magazine. In addition to game reviews, he wrote the comic strip Cybertwats and the Sick Notes column , in which he insulted letters to the editor. In February 1998, one of Brooker's cartoons caused many British newsagents to take the magazine off their shelves. The drawing was titled "Helmut Werstler's Cruelty Zoo (Helmut Werstlers Grausamkeitszoo)" and presented itself as an advertisement for a theme park created by a German psychologist in which children could develop their violent urges against animals. The comic was accompanied by manipulated images. The joke was supposed to be at the expense of the Tomb Raider games, which were known for the large number of animals killed at the time. The original title "Lara Croft's Cruelty Zoo" was changed for legal reasons. In October 2008, Brooker and other ex- PC Zone writers were invited to test another game for the 200th edition. Brooker tested the Euro Truck Simulator .

In 2000, he was a regular television reviewer for the Saturday edition of The Guardian in his Screen Burn column . Also for The Guardian , he dealt with various what-if scenarios in the Supposing column .

On October 24, 2004, he wrote a column on George W. Bush and the upcoming 2004 US presidential election , closing with the question: "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley, Jr. - where are you when we are need you? " . Brooker's apparent incitement to assassinate the American president has been criticized. The Guardian withdrew the article from its website and posted an apology from Brooker.

He then commented on the column as follows:

"I ended a Screen Burn column by recycling a very old tasteless joke (a variant of a graffiti I first saw during the Thatcher years ), and within minutes half the internet seemed convinced The Guardian was officially calling for assassination. My inbox overflowed with blood-curdling death threats, and it was all very unfunny indeed - a bit like recounting a rude joke at a dinner party, only to be told you hadn't recounted a joke at all, but molested the host's children, and suddenly everyone was punching you and you weren't going to get any pudding. I've had better weekends. "

- Charlie Brooker

Brooker completed the Screen Burn column in 2010 . In his last text, he described how he found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his role in the media and television production with his writing as a critic. Brooker's longtime colleague Grace Dent took over the column. However, he continued to regularly contribute articles to the Guardian until 2015 .

In 2012 he contributed to the book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who .

On-line

From 1999 to 2003, he wrote for the satirical website TVGoHome , a regular series of bogus TV shows combining satire and surreal humor, featured in the technology newsletter Need To Know . A print version of the website was published by Fourth Estate in 2001 . A TV sketch show based on the website aired on UK digital network E4 that same year .

In May 2012, Brooker appeared on Richard Herring's podcast , Leicester Square Theater Podcast .

watch TV

From 1999 to 2000, Brooker played hooded expert the Pundit on the short-lived show Games Republic , hosted by Trevor and Simon on BSkyB .

In 2003 Brooker wrote an episode entitled "How to Watch Television" for Channel 4's The Art Show . The episode was designed in the style of a public information film and was partially animated.

Screen wipe

2006 Brooker started as an author and presenter of the TV show Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on BBC Four , in his Screen Burn column in The Guardian was similar. By 2009, 27 episodes were published. Every year there was an episode as an annual review. In January 2009, the first episode aired on BBC Two .

The screenwipe format consists largely of two parts. The first part is showing clips from other television series, both from popular programs and from fringe programs that Brooker is commenting on from his living room. In the second part, Brooker explains with teasing humor how individual areas of the television industry work. In addition, animated clips by David Firth and guest contributions are occasionally shown. These include a poem by Tim Key and a segment in which a guest explains what fascinates him or her about a particular genre or a particular series.

Brooker regularly experimented with the show by putting programs under a specific theme. Some of the themes included American TV programs , news , advertising, and children's programming .

A show Newswipe based on a similar concept , focused on reporting international news programs. This was first written and moderated by Brooker in 2009. On September 29, 2009, a previously uniquely produced special Gameswipe was broadcast on BBC Four , which focused on video games.

In the years that followed, there were repeated annual reviews of the end-of-year wipe , until 2017, when Brooker did not have enough time for an end-of-year wipe due to other projects .

Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe first aired on BBC Two on January 31, 2013. The show mixes elements from screenwipe and newswipe , with sections on breaking news, TV shows and movies. In addition to the regular protagonists, there are also frequent guest appearances to discuss current events. Two more seasons in 2014 and 2015 followed. A 60-minute special, Election Wipe , aired on May 6, 2015 and focused on the 2015 general election .

Dead set

Brooker wrote Dead Set , a five-part zombie horror thriller show for E4 set in the Big Brother house. The show aired on Halloween 2008. Like Screenwipe, the show was produced by Zeppotron.

Jaime Winstone was a runner involved in television production and Big Brother presenter Davina McCall had a Cameoauftritt. Dead Set received a BAFTA nomination for Best Drama Series .

Black Mirror

In December 2011, three episodes of Brooke's Black Mirror , a science fiction anthology series, appeared on Channel 4 , with mostly positive feedback. Brooker wrote the first episode, and the second with his wife, Konnie Huq . He also wrote all three episodes of the second season. In September 2015, Netflix commissioned a third season with 12 episodes, with Channel 4 losing the rights to the show. The third season was split into two seasons of six episodes each. and released worldwide on Netflix on October 21, 2016. Brooker wrote four episodes of the third season alone and was involved in the other episodes. The fourth season was released in December 2017.

The series is produced by Zeppotron for Endemol . An Endemol press release describes the series as "a mix of The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected that captures our contemporary unease about our modern world," with the stories having a "techno-paranoid" feel to it. Channel 4 describes the first episode as "a twisted parable for the Twitter age".

Brooker described the title of the series in The Guardian as saying, "If technology is a drug - and it feels like a drug - what exactly are the side effects? In this area - between joy and discomfort - Black Mirror plays my new one Drama series. The title's "black mirror" is the one you find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a television, a monitor, a smartphone . "

Further television work and appearances

He and Daniel Maier wrote a parody of a crime drama for Sky1 called A Touch of Cloth , which premiered on August 26, 2012, in which John Hannah and Suranne Jones can be seen. Both were known for their roles in real crime drama. Two other seasons aired in 2013 and 2014, the latter starring Karen Gillan .

Brooker wrote the sketch show Rush Hour for BBC Three .

In 2009, Brooker began hosting You Have Been Watching , a TV quiz on Channel 4 that was about television. A second season aired the following year.

Brooker hosted How TV Ruined Your Life , which ran on BBC Two between January and March 2011.

radio

Starting May 11, 2010, Brooker presented a 5-part BBC Radio 4 series entitled “So Wrong It's Right,” in which guests were asked to compete for the worst ideas for new franchises and give the “worst” answer to a question . Guests included David Mitchell , Lee Mack , Josie Long , Frank Skinner , Helen Zaltzman , Holly Walsh , Graham Linehan and Richard Herring . The second season started on March 10, 2011, and a third season aired in May 2012.

In January 2018 he was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs .

Awards and nominations

Brooker won Columnist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2009 for his column in The Guardian . Dead Set was nominated for BAFTA Best Drama Series in 2009. In 2010 he was selected by the Royal Television Society with the Best Entertainment Program Award for Newswipe excellent. He has received three British Comedy Awards : Best Newcomer 2009 , Best Comedy Entertainment Show Award for Newswipe 2011, and Best Comedy Entertainment Personality 2012. At the BAFTA TV Awards 2017, his show Charlie Brookers Wipe won the Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Program award in 2016 .

In 2017, Brooker won two Primetime Emmy Awards for the Black Mirror episode San Junipero . In 2018, Brooker and William Bridges won another Primetime Emmy for his contribution to the Black Mirror episode USS Callister . In 2019 he won the Nebula Award in the first-ever Game Writing category for the screenplay for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch .

Filmography

Publications

Web links

Wikiquote: Charlie Brooker  Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ TV's Huq and Brooker get engaged . In: BBC News , June 9, 2010. 
  2. ^ Marriage License, County of Clark, Nevada . Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved on August 30, 2010.
  3. ↑ Konnie Huq gives birth to baby Covey Brooker Huq . In: The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved September 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ Charlie Brooker on Twitter . Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ Exclusive: Konnie Huq and Charlie Brooker welcome their new baby, a second son Huxley, into the world . In: Daily Mail . March 1, 2014. Accessed March 1, 2014.
  6. ^ Baby joy for Konnie Huq and Charlie Brooker as they welcome second son . In: Express . March 1, 2014. Accessed March 1, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b The Atheist's Guide to Christmas . Atheist Bus Campaign . Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved on December 23, 2011.
  8. ↑ Charlie Brooker: Don't look into the eyes . November 20, 2004. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  9. ↑ Logged in as click here to log out: Brooker's 30 October 2006 column, featuring Ignopedia and TVGoHome . In: The Guardian , October 30, 2006. Retrieved January 16, 2010. 
  10. ↑ Full text of deleted article . Antinomian.com. October 23, 2004. Retrieved January 16, 2010.
  11. ↑ Close: Apology for Brooker's October 24, 2004 Screen Burn column . In: The Guardian , October 24, 2004. Retrieved January 16, 2010. 
  12. ↑ Brooker's 17 February 2007 column . In: The Guardian , February 17, 2007. Retrieved January 16, 2010. 
  13. ↑ Close: Charlie Brooker Leaving Screen Burn Column . In: The Guardian , October 16, 2010. 
  14. ^ Paul Jones: Behind the Sofa: Charlie Brooker, Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Ross's Doctor Who memories . The Radio Times. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
  15. ↑ Need To Know 2000-07-21 . Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  16. ↑ Need To Know 2004-10-29 . Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  17. ↑ Endemol UK - Zeppotron . Archived from the original on February 6, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 23, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeppotron.com
  18. ↑ Richard Herring: RHLSTP . British Comedy Guide. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
  19. ^ How to Watch Television . In: The Art Show . Channel 4. Retrieved December 14, 2011.
  20. ^ What Screen / News Wipe looks like from my perspective. on Twitpic . Twitpic.com. Retrieved January 16, 2010.
  21. ↑ Charlie Brooker gets 'wiped' this Christmas on BBC Four . Endemol UK. Archived from the original on December 6, 2011. Retrieved on December 4, 2011.
  22. ↑ Charlie Brooker's 2011 Wipe . BBC Four. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
  23. ↑ Charlie Brooker Tweet . Retrieved December 22, 2012.
  24. ↑ Charlie Brooker's 2013 Wipe . Retrieved December 12, 2013.
  25. ↑ Charlie Brooker's 2014 Wipe . Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  26. ↑ Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe . BBC. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
  27. ↑ Christopher Hooton: 2017 Wipe canceled as Charlie Brooker concedes he 'ran out of road' . November 28, 2017.
  28. ↑ Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe . Radiotimes. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
  29. ↑ McGinley, Sheena: Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe . entertainment.ie. January 31, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
  30. ↑ Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe returns in 2014 after 'end-of-year' special . DigitalSpy. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
  31. ↑ Tom Eames: Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe to return, 2014 Wipe confirmed . Digital spy. November 13, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  32. ↑ BBC renew 'People Just Do Nothing' and 'Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe' . NME. November 14, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  33. ^ Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe gets another series . British Comedy Guide. November 13, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  34. ↑ Tom Eames: Charlie Brooker and Jack Dee to host General Election comedy specials . Digital spy. March 24, 2015. Accessed March 24, 2015.
  35. ↑ Logged in as click here to log out: Charlie Brooker's E4 zombie thriller to be set inside the Big Brother house . In: The Guardian , August 21, 2008. Retrieved January 16, 2010. 
  36. ↑ Brooker to write E4 horror series , BBC News. April 14, 2008. Retrieved January 16, 2010. 
  37. ↑ http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Monday-night-s-TV/article-431496-detail/article.html ( Memento of March 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) , Leicester Mercury , October 28 2008
  38. ^ Bafta TV Awards 2009: The winners , BBC , April 26, 2009
  39. ^ Black Mirror . Channel 4. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
  40. ↑ John Crace: Black Mirror , The Guardian. 4th December 2011. 
  41. ↑ Sam Wollaston: Black Mirror , The Guardian. December 11, 2011. 
  42. ↑ Debra Birnbaum: 'Black Mirror' Lands at Netflix - Variety . In: Variety .
  43. ↑ John Plunkett: Netflix deals Channel 4 knockout blow over Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror . March 29, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  44. ↑ Charlie Brooker on Twitter . Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  45. ↑ Oriana Schwindt: Netflix Original Series Premiere Dates: 'Black Mirror,' 'Gilmore Girls' and More to Drop in 2016 . July 27, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  46. ^ Black Mirror - A new drama from Charlie Brooker . Endemol UK. May 11, 2011. Archived from the original on November 11, 2011. Retrieved on November 15, 2011.
  47. ^ Black Mirror - Channel 4 - Info - Press . Channel 4. November 7, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  48. ^ Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction . In: guardian.co.uk , December 1, 2011. Retrieved December 17, 2011. 
  49. ↑ British Comedy Guide: So Wrong It's Right - Radio 4 Panel Show - British Comedy Guide . Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  50. ↑ Endemol UK - ZEPPOTRON SECURES SECOND SERIES FOR RADIO 4 . Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  51. ↑ Zeppotron's So Wrong It's Right picked up for a third run on BBC Radio 4 . Endemol UK . Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  52. ↑ Desert Island Discs, Charlie Brooker, BBC Radio 4, 7 Jan 2018
  53. ^ British Press Awards 2009: The full list of winners . In: Press Gazette , April 1, 2009. Archived from the original on January 15, 2010. Retrieved January 16, 2010. 
  54. ↑ Bafta TV Awards 2017: All the winners and nominees . In: BBC News . BBC. May 14, 2017. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
  55. ↑ Charlie Brooker of 'Black Mirror: San Junipero' wins Emmy for writing for a limited series movie or dramatic special ( en-US ) September 17, 2017.
  56. ↑ 70th Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners . Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  57. ↑ Charlie Brooker, November 27, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Brooker, Charlie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brooker, Charlton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English humorist, critic, author, screenwriter, producer and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading , UK