Actor Diane Morgan will return to screens as the ill-informed reporter Philomena Cunk in a new BBC series, titled Cunk On Cinema.
The three-part mockumentary series, which was written by Charlie Brooker, will see the fictional presenter investigate the history of film.
The series will air on BBC Two and iPlayer.
Speaking in her role as Cunk, Morgan said: “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.
“There will, unfortunately, be some bits in black and white, but we’ll keep that to the barest minimum.”
Cunk on Cinema will look at subjects including New Wave film-makers of the 1960s, CGI, and how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact film.
Brooker, 55, said: “Now that Sora has killed off Hollywood and itself (presumably as part of a murder-suicide pact), it’s the perfect time to look back at 200 centuries of cinema, in the company of an idiot we’re apparently cursed to employ, Philomena Cunk.”
A release date for the series, which will air on Netflix outside of the UK and Ireland, is yet to be announced.
Morgan, 50, first appeared as Cunk on Brooker’s Weekly Wipe show in 2013.
The character is known for her deadpan, ill-informed and often absurd questions.
She has since played the character in specials including 2016’s Cunk On Shakespeare and Cunk On Christmas, as well as the series Cunk On Earth, Cunk On Britain and Cunk And Other Humans.
The Manchester-born star recently returned as the titular character in BBC comedy Mandy, which she also writes, for a fourth series in 2025.
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