Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker present the first two episodes of Cunk on Cinema, Philomena Cunk’s turn on film itself, and take questions afterwards.
Diane Morgan, twice BAFTA-nominated as Philomena Cunk, previews her new BBC series Cunk on Cinema at BFI Southbank on the South Bank on Tuesday 3 November 2026. Its creator, Charlie Brooker, joins her for questions.
The evening shows the first two episodes, directed by Al Campbell. Cunk asks experts about the history of cinema, from the invention of the camera and the New Wave of the 1960s to CGI and artificial intelligence.
Morgan was born in Farnworth, Greater Manchester, in 1975 and trained at East 15 Acting School. She tried stand-up for the first time at 30. Cunk began on Brooker’s Weekly Wipe in 2013, then fronted Cunk on Britain, Cunk on Earth and Cunk on Life.
She also plays Liz in the BBC Two sitcom Motherland, and wrote and stars in Mandy.
A series about the cinema has its preview in one, in NFT1. The BFI describes Cunk searching for where cinema came from “while sitting in lumpy seats with stale popcorn”.
Brooker, born in Reading in 1971, created and writes Black Mirror. He first became known for Screenwipe, his satirical series about television.