‘Cunk on Cinema’ Trailer: Diane Morgan’s Philomena Cunk Returns for Film-Focused Mockumentary Series

The first trailer for “Cunk on Cinema,” a new mockumentary series starring Diane Morgan as her British comic character Philomena Cunk, has been released. The six 15-minute episodes will debut on BBC iPlayer and BBC Two, and on Netflix outside of the U.K. and Ireland, on Nov. 15

Directed by Al Campbell, “Cunk on Cinema” is billed as Cunk’s “most glamorous outing yet” as “she charts the history of cinema, from the invention of the camera and the New Wave filmmakers of the 1960s right up to the entrance of CGI and what the future of AI holds,” per the show’s official description. “Cunk will attempt to demystify it all while sitting in lumpy seats with stale popcorn, asking herself, where did cinema come from? And why? What does it want? And why can’t it tell us?”

Cunk will come face-to-face with 23 experts, including Michael Bay, Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Pemberton, Steven E. de Souza, Seamus McGarvey, Mark Kermode, Mark Cousins, Isabel Stevens, Helen O’Hara, Catherine Bray, Bryony Dixon, David Rubin, Jim Dowdall, Kaleem Aftab and more.

Morgan and “Black Mirror” creator Charlie Brooker created the character of Cunk, who is known for hosting several satirical documentaries and for her deadpan style and ill-informed questions. Jim Al-Khalili and Ashley Jackson return to the new series from “Cunk on Life” and “Cunk on Earth.”

“Cinema has given the world some of the most profound, memorable and moving visual moments in its unswerving depiction of the human condition: the shower scene in ‘Psycho,’ Death playing chess in that Swedish thing, and Tom Selleck’s glistening moustache in ‘Three Men And A Little Lady,’ to name but all three of the only examples I can think of at the moment,” said Cunk when Variety exclusively revealed the new series. “There will, unfortunately, be some bits in black and white, but we’ll keep that to the barest minimum.”

“Cunk On Cinema” is a Pacesetter Production for BBC iPlayer and BBC Two. Brooker, Morgan, Jessica Rhoades and Sam Ward serve as executive producers.