'Cunk on Cinema' gives the history of film (and Hollywood) the Cunk treatment

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Set us as preferred First Christmas, then Shakespeare, Britain, humans, Earth, then life itself.Now, cinema is the latest grand topic to get Cunked.The history of movies gets the mockumentary treatment by the redoubtable Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) in the new six-episode Netflix miniseries “Cunk on Cinema.” The blitheringly confident presenter, as they say in England, traces the path of moving pictures from the beginnings of the technology to today, boldly getting just about everything wrong, all in Cunk’s authoritative deadpan.Philomena is the creation of Charlie Brooker, for his 2013 topical satirical comedy program “Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe.” Morgan, meanwhile, has utterly inhabited the character, down to her own greater Manchester-Bolton accent.

She’s so good at her voice of misinformed authority that her interview subjects — experts in their fields — know what they’re getting into, but still get thrown by her assuredness.Television Diane Morgan, the actor who plays know-nothing TV pundit Philomena Cunk, explains how series like ‘Cunk on Life,’ premiering on Netflix Thursday, come together.The luminaries in “Cunk on Cinema” include film historians and critics, as well as actor Benedict Cumberbatch, director Michael Bay, screenwriter Steven E.

de Souza and David Rubin, the former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Morgan has multiple BAFTA nominations as Philomena and an Emmy nomination for co-writing the series “Cunk on Life.” Brooker was also nominated for co-writing “Cunk on Life,” but he is probably best known to American audiences as the creator of “Black Mirror” and his Emmy-winning work on the show’s most notable episodes, including “Bandersnatch,” “USS Callister” and “San Junipero.”Brooker and Morgan spoke over a video call to c...