The award-winning creator of Black Mirror on the most over-the-top film he’s ever seen, a podcast that doesn’t send him to sleep and the bit of the Observer he always reads
Born in Reading in 1971, Charlton “Charlie” Brooker started to write TV reviews for the Guardian in 2000, winning the British Press award for columnist of the year in 2009. He has written for television programmes including Brass Eye, The Eleven O’Clock Show, Nathan Barley and Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe. In 2011 he created Black Mirror, a speculative fiction show on Channel 4 (and later on Netflix) set in a succession of near-future dystopias, for which he has won five Emmy awards. He lives in London with his wife, Konnie Huq, and their two children. Series six of Black Mirror is on Netflix now.
