Award-Winning Creator & Writer, Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker: Biography at a Glance
- Charlie Brooker is an award-winning creator and writer of Black Mirror, which has collected awards including Primetime Emmy's, BAFTA, International Emmy, and a Peabody.
- Black Mirror is regarded as perhaps the defining piece of pop culture about 21st-century technology and has earned Brooker the praise of AI experts for his imagination and accuracy about the machine-learning processes.
- Charlie was named to the TIME 100 list of Most Influential Innovators in AI.
- Charlie has presented numerous television shows including three series of his BBC Two satirical review show Weekly Wipe.
- Charlie previously presented the BAFTA-nominated Election Wipe, Gameswipe, and Newswipe, which won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment Programme.
- He also co-wrote the critically acclaimed detective spoof A Touch of Cloth for Sky One.
Biography
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, winning a BAFTA Craft Award and picking up three BAFTA TV Awards nominations. The critically acclaimed, mind-bending anthology series originally launched on Channel 4 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 BAFTA for Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme, and the annual shindig Charlie Brooker’s End of Year Wipe, which won a BAFTA. Charlie also 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.
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.
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.
