Diane Morgan returns as Philomena Cunk in Cunk on Cinema

Diane Morgan returns as Philomena Cunk in Cunk on Cinema, a six-part mockumentary about film history that features interviews with 23 experts and is set to arrive in stages across the UK and internationally in November. The series will be available on BBC iPlayer in the UK from November 12, with BBC Two broadcasts beginning that evening and continuing on November 19 and 26. Netflix is scheduled to release it outside the UK and Ireland on November 15. As Cunk, Morgan plays a confidently uninformed interviewer who approaches cinema with deliberately misguided questions. The first trailer shows her speaking with director Michael Bay and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, among others. The interviews are presented for comic effect, with Cunk’s questions prompting bemused reactions from the guests. The series charts cinema from the invention of the camera through the New Wave filmmakers of the 1960s and the arrival of computer-generated imagery, or CGI, to questions about artificial intelligence’s future role in filmmaking. Its 23 interviewees include people from across the film industry, among them composer Daniel Pemberton, cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, screenwriter Steven E. de...