Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker returns to BBC with coronavirus special Antiviral Wipe
BLACK Mirror's Charlie Brooker will make a return to the BBC for a coronavirus screenwipe special.
The screenwriter will present a half-hour special, titled Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe, which will focus on the coronavirus crisis.
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The program will focus specifically on what people are doing with the extra free time in lockdown and what people are watching.
Just as with his previous Screenwipe episodes, Diane Morgan and Al Campbell will reprise their roles as reporters Philomena Cunk and Barry S**tpeas.
Brooker said: “The BBC asked me to supply a quote for the press release, which is what you’re reading now.”
Charlie Brooker‘s latest Antiviral Wipe currently doesn’t have an air date and the return of popular show Black Mirror to Netflix has yet to be announced.
The award-winning writer created Screenwipe, a television review programme, which includes stories and commentary on how TV is produced.
This is the first Screenwipe that Brooker will be doing since his special The Best of 2010–2015 Wipe aired in late December 2019.
The 49-year-old's first episode of Screenwipe premiered way back in 2006 with a three-part series and continued this until 2008.
Since then he has only brought the show back for one-off specials.
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Charlie got his big break in 2000, when he was offered a job as a writer on The 11 o’Clock Show, a Channel 4 satirical sketch show.
At the same time he started being given work for The Guardian and began to write regular comment pieces for the paper.
He went on to write the 2001 series Brass Eye, 2005 sitcom Nathan Barley and 2008 series Dead Set.
He is most famous for Channel 4-turned Netflix drama Black Mirror, for which he has won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Television Movie and two for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special.