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Charlie Brooker
4 years
I suppose this is what happens when a bunch of fucking idiots meet an arrogant fucking idiot who tells them he’s a genius.
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7 years
Delete his account. It'd be fucking hilarious.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
I would crawl through a barrel of broken glass to have John Boyega even so much as *glance* at one of my scripts.
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4 years
I would work with John Boyega and I urge other Non-Black creators to affirm that they have his back as well.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
. @NHSuk Think my eyesight is blurry. Should I put my family in the car and drive around for a bit to see if it clears up?
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Charlie Brooker
6 years
Okay so Black Mirror S4 is up on Netflix. Hope you like it.
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4 years
That scruffy cunt better be working on his resignation speech.
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6 years
So we finally decided Black Mirror S4 episode sequence is: 1. USS Callister 2. ArkAngel 3. Crocodile 4. Hang the DJ 5. Metalhead 6. Black Museum (but tbh you can watch them in whatever flippin' order you like)
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
FACT CHECK: Michael Gove failed to become leader of the Conservative Party and therefore sadly does not qualify for a leaders’ debate on climate change.
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Michael Gove
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But you were too scared to debate a Conservative and preferred to be challenged by a giant ice cube
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4 years
@MattHancock I’d say you just torpedoed your own credibility but let’s face it nothing could hit a target that small.
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Charlie Brooker
5 years
Have a Nice Wednesday
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7 years
Kelly and Yorkie, 2017
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
UPDATE: Source says Dominic Cummings is genetically superior to all of us.
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Laura Kuenssberg
4 years
PM's chief adviser did travel from London to County Durham during lockdown when he and his wife had coronavirus to stay in a separate building at his family's farm, a source close to him confirms - source says it is not true that he was spoken to by police ...
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
That such life-or-death stuff is being passed to lobby journalists with no scientific background, rather than explained directly to the public by the govt is bewildering and obscene.
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Robert Peston
4 years
Revealed: elderly to be quarantined at home or in care homes for four months, in "wartime-style" mobilisation to combat Coronavirus. Full details here.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
Some news for you:
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BBC Press Office
4 years
📺 @CharltonBrooker has been lured out of isolation, to go into isolation for the one-off Charlie Brooker's #AntiviralWipe , and he'll be joined (figuratively) by Philomena Cunk and Barry Shitpeas:
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Charlie Brooker
5 years
Relax.
@blackmirror
Black Mirror
5 years
Don't do it.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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Charlie Brooker
2 years
It’ll take an exorcist to shift this fucker.
@BBCPolitics
BBC Politics
2 years
PM Boris Johnson tells ministers he will not resign, despite calls from his cabinet members for him to go
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Charlie Brooker
7 years
Attention citizens: it is unpatriotic to question the wisdom or competence of the ongoing clown infestation that calls itself a government.
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BBC Newsnight
7 years
“It would be helpful if broadcasters were willing to be a bit patriotic” - @andrealeadsom tells @maitlis after being questioned on Brexit
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
This is like finally having a shit after a long haul flight.
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4 years
Just want to take a moment to thank our entire #AntiviralWipe team for pulling together and working so diligently and brilliantly on this very unusual show.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
ANTIVIRAL WIPE - which will be 50% *longer* than first advertised - is on BBC2, May 14th at 9pm. Please excuse cardboard desk.
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Charlie Brooker
9 years
Shit. Turns out Black Mirror is a documentary series.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
Only conspiracy theory I’m prepared to believe is that 5G microwaves may be causing peoples’ brains to stop fucking working.
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4 years
Antiviral Wipe! Tomorrow! BBC2! 9pm! Cunk! Shitpeas! Etc!
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
This is all a bit like when an end-of-level boss flashes red and starts spinning like a top.
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Charlie Brooker
7 years
Somehow just forgot my kids are 2 & 4 years old - entered room and absent-mindedly greeted them with a cheery "hey, fuckfaces!"
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Charlie Brooker
3 years
Ah, Britain.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
“Got Coronavirus? Drive across the country” - Health Secretary Matt Hancock
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Matt Hancock
4 years
I know how ill coronavirus makes you. It was entirely right for Dom Cummings to find childcare for his toddler, when both he and his wife were getting ill.
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4 years
#AntiviralWipe is on BBC2 at 9pm TONIGHT - It’s 45 minutes of hopefully cathartic Wipe-flavoured FUN including Cunk and Shitpeas and the whole damn thing.
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Charlie Brooker
5 years
What the HELL is this? If I saw one of these nightmarish things beaming propaganda at my kids I’d smash it to fucking pieces while they watched.
@MikeStuchbery_
Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷
5 years
This is sinister. Without prior knowledge or permission from schools, these messages are being beamed onto 3,000 primary school digital noticeboards across the UK. Propaganda, pure and simple - and that doesn't belong in a school.
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Charlie Brooker
8 years
2016 Wipe increasingly resembling a vertical cliff face with no footholds.
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Charlie Brooker
11 months
BLACK MIRROR S6 is available NOW
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Charlie Brooker
7 years
. @theresa_may If the British public asked you to withdraw Trump's state invite, would you respect the will of people?
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Charlie Brooker
2 years
This fucking government is like malware you can’t remove. General election NOW.
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8 years
Only just realised Game of Thrones is set in a near-future Britain.
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Charlie Brooker
6 years
Boris Johnson is a z-grade character-comedian and embarrassingly poor writer who deserves nothing but casual scorn or disinterest, and any journalist who still calls him ‘Boris’ should be classed as a vacuous cheerleader and ignored forever.
@ThatTimWalker
Tim Walker
6 years
This is perhaps the most embarrassing piece of journalism I’ve ever read in the pro Brexit Sunday Times
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Charlie Brooker
6 years
*Fairly* sure Black Mirror S4 will magically appear on your Netflix shelf at around midnight PST (which is 8am GMT).
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Charlie Brooker
7 years
*requests 700 minute 2017 Wipe running time*
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7 years
Selfish and destructive older generations have smugly lectured the young on 'entitlement' while casually vandalising the future.
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Charlie Brooker
9 years
Boris Johnson wonders why the BBC didn't make Breaking Bad. It's because in the UK Walter White would receive free treatment on the NHS.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
ICYMI he just told us on live television that he put his family in the car and drove to Barnard Castle and back in order to test his eyesight.
@Mark_Spencer
Mark Spencer
4 years
A full, frank, honest and open statement from Dominic Cummings. He acted as a father and husband, within the rules. He has had lots of mis information put out there about him. Time to move on and focus on solving this massive national challenge of Covid19
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
Here’s ANTIVIRAL WIPE on iPlayer - a surface it lives on for 29 days.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
. @grantshapps psst I’ve locked the replies so it’s just you and me & I’m *pretty* sure that means no-one else can see this. Just a friendly tip - the more you defend this, the more this gets worse than the expenses scandal. Back out while you still can LOL! Ok bye mate 🤞
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Charlie Brooker
11 months
Ironically, this is precisely the sort of thing you’d get if you fed the original interview (for Empire magazine, out tomorrow!) into ChatGPT and asked it to generate a wilfully misleading clickbait headline.
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Independent Arts
11 months
Charlie Brooker used ChatGPT to write a Black Mirror episode
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Charlie Brooker
5 years
Get Brexit Gone.
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Charlie Brooker
7 years
Too often, UK papers morph into extremist pamphlets. Time for self-reflection. It doesn't have to be this way.
@JamesMelville
James Melville 🚜
7 years
We need address the reasons why the #FinsburyPark terrorist was radicalised.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
We’re going for a homebrew shabby chic vibe yeah?
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Charlie Brooker
6 years
Berlusconi appears to be morphing into someone from a GTA cutscene.
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Alistair Bunkall
6 years
Silvio Berlusconi is looking remarkable for an 81 year old...
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Charlie Brooker
1 year
Back in Black. With a hint of red.
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Black Mirror
1 year
you're due an update.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
To be fair, I can see why it’s essential for someone this clever to keep their job at such a critical moment in our nation’s history.
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Charlie Brooker
3 years
Death to 2020 - on @netflix December 27th @NetflixIsAJoke
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Charlie Brooker
3 years
Maybe I’m tired and acting out-of-character this morning but sitting at my desk watching this just made me literally weep with bittersweet relief in a way I hadn’t anticipated.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
Okay, fuck it. This is happening so frequently I’m just going to have to accept that I’m a soothsayer or a mystic or whatever you want to call it.
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ash mae barney 😈
4 years
Basically the premise of Dead Set. We’re truly all living in @charltonbrooker ’s world. Stay in the house, housemates!
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2 years
Got a horrible inkling that any moment now Johnson’s going to reload a previous save and we’ll have to do the past six weeks again.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
The sole upside of living through this humblingly shitty era is knowing you’ll *probably* get to witness arrogant thicko Dominic Cummings’ inevitable comeuppance five minutes before a blinding white flash in the sky.
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Charlie Brooker
8 years
Got a theory that roughly one year ago some scientists activated a secret underground stupidity accelerator the size of a fucking mountain.
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7 years
Okay so this really *is* like a news story straight out of Black Mirror - right down to the ending.
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Charlie Brooker
8 years
Yeah, fuckin' foreign doctors. Coming over here, curing the shit out of our kids.
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Paul Waugh
8 years
Theresa May tells BBC foreign doctors will be allowed to stay "until further numbers [of home-grown doctors] are trained". Doc-exit in 2025?
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7 years
Experienced curious swell of patriotic pride on reading this.
@brokeymcpoverty
tracy clayton jr the 3rd
7 years
yo man theres some British show on Netflix called embarrassing bodies and they just showed a woman's entire actual anus
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9 years
Just to clear it up: nope, I’d never heard anything about Cameron and a pig when coming up with that story. So this weirds me out.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
Surprise!
@chortle
Chortle Comedy
4 years
Philomena Cunk's back! | Diane Morgan's character returns for a round-up of 2019
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
@BBCNewsnight @BBCTwo Cool, have the government told you who’s presenting yet?
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Charlie Brooker
7 years
I stand with Kim Kardashian.
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Kim Kardashian
7 years
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
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Allison Pearson
4 years
Anyone explain what this #Cunk thing is doing on BBC2? “Bumholes” is funny to seven-year-old boys. Not so much grown ups at 10.30pm
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
. @10DowningStreet oh my god have you SEEN this?
@UKLabour
The Labour Party
4 years
There cannot be one rule for Dominic Cummings and another for the British people.
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Hi, I’m Barry Scott. Blue tick reappeared? Change your name, then change it back. BANG! And the mark is gone.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
“The lockdown rules do not apply to Dominic Cummings” - Suella Braverman, Attorney General of England and Wales.
@SuellaBraverman
Suella Braverman MP
4 years
Protecting one’s family is what any good parent does. The @10DowningStreet statement clarifies the situation and it is wholly inappropriate to politicise it.
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7 years
Brexit is as complex as it is shit. Like planning the moon landings blindfold, heading for a planet of wet turds in a wet turd spaceship.
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It's great to be a proud citizen of the world's leading cautionary tale.
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His 100+ backers must be devastated, assuming imaginary people can experience emotions.
@SkyNewsBreak
Sky News Breaking
2 years
Boris Johnson says he will not stand for the Tory leadership For more on this and other news visit
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9 years
Not sure “Tough on AIDS victims” is going to be a popular campaign slogan. #LeadersDebate
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2 years
Ok so I think I can now confirm that CUNK ON EARTH starts at 2200 on Tuesday 20th September on BBC2.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
. @10DowningStreet Hmm, not sure the “move on” mantra did the trick. What’s on the next page of Gaslighting For Dummies?
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Martin Evans
4 years
BREAKING: A Durham Police investigation has concluded that Dominic Cummings DID breach lockdown rules when he drove to Barnard Castle, the Telegraph has learned
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
As a parent currently crafting an emergency Wimpy Kid mask from the top of a pizza box can I just say FUCK WORLD BOOK DAY
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Charlie Brooker
7 years
I suppose the history books will say Theresa May poured her legacy into an upturned crash helmet and shat in it.
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With that in mind, I will now make an optimistic prediction in the hope it also comes true: we’ll come out the other side of the coronavirus crisis a more empathetic, altruistic, and globally conscious society.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
Biased, but I genuinely think this is a very good concept for a Mr Man
@Konnie_Huq
Konnie Huq
4 years
6yo has started writing his own Mr. Men book, ‘Mr Slip’...
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Charlie Brooker
7 years
I’m as tired of petitions as you are. But if this one hits 100k signatures it gets debated in Parliament. So fuck it: signed.
@OliDuggan
Oliver Duggan
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A formal petition has been launched against Donald Trump's state visit to UK over the #MuslimBan ...
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9 years
I hope Jeremy Corbyn is going to read out questions from members of the public again this Wednesday.
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8 years
At this rate next referendum we hold will be to decide whether or not to burn Edward Woodward alive in a huge wicker man to save the crops.
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7 years
Black Mirror Junior Edition
@CNN
CNN
7 years
For parents looking to give toddlers guilt-free screen time, Fisher-Price has this high-tech exercise bike #CES2017
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8 years
Cannot wait for 2016 Wipe.
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7 years
Jodie Whittaker is a GREAT choice
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Charlie Brooker
7 years
Firm but fair.
@AmznMovieRevws
Amazon Movie Reviews
7 years
Black Mirror.
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2 years
Cunk on Earth starts tonight at 10pm on BBC2 - and the whole series drops on @BBCiPlayer around the same time…
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7 years
I expect London will show Mr Trump an exceptionally warm welcome the day he comes to visit Her Majesty the Queen.
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Charlie Brooker
8 years
Aha, first of our new Black Mirror images are starting to appear. These are from 'San Junipero' and 'Nosedive':
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8 years
Haven't seen Top Gear yet. Did it contain spoilers? (This is a car joke)
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7 years
Just ordered some Lego for Christmas.
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4 years
CUNK & OTHER HUMANS ON 2019 is on BBC2 EVERY NIGHT from THIS MONDAY. It’ll help you make sense of the year.
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Charlie Brooker
4 years
Hopefully tonight’s #AntiviralWipe will make you laugh at some point. If it doesn’t, switch it off and watch something that will, because YOU DESERVE A LAUGH. BBC2 9pm.
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2 years
Turns out lunatics can’t actually run asylums.
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Charlie Brooker
8 years
The new series of @blackmirror will magically appear on Netflix at around 8am UK time. Thanks to everyone involved in every aspect of it.
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