Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Charlie Brooker, originally episode 275 from 2019-06-26.
Original writeup below:
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…but don’t by any means think that Black Mirror is a one man show, as Charlie himself will ensure you know how important Annabel Jones is in the whole creative process! He and Pip get all the way into the whole Black Mirror phenomenon, how it works and what it is to be a showrunner, the rise of Black Mirror in the US, how Charlie is the Drake of TV according to Pip (you’ll enjoy this theory), how the auteur theory is bullshit, presenting the show to Netflix, having an exit strategy in a series and how there are less exits in a film as opposed to an episode, Bandersnatch and the three episode season, his older work including Dead Set, Nathan Barley and the various ‘-Wipes, his Screen Burn column and how haters could improve their hater game by reading some of his columns for how to REALLY dis someone…
* Production note: Pip had a backup recorder running, and you’ll hear some of this at the start for a minute or so, but after that the audio is straight from the mics. Just in case you wondered why the quality shifts a touch!
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| 0:00.0 | Emmo Clue, in Mo Clue, immoclue, this is the distraction pieces, rewind. |
| 0:04.7 | You've looked, it's Friday, it's not Wednesday. |
| 0:06.8 | It's not a Wednesday episode, it's a Friday episode. |
| 0:09.6 | Therefore, we're delving into the back catalogue. |
| 0:11.9 | And this time we're going back to 2019, when I got to sit down with Charlie Brooker. |
| 0:18.6 | Now, Charlie's a legend. |
| 0:20.9 | Charlie's a verifiable legend. |
| 0:24.9 | Imagine how excited I was. |
| 0:26.9 | Like, only three years into the podcast, maybe four years into the podcast, |
| 0:31.7 | to get to be sitting down and chatting with Charlie Brooker. |
| 0:34.6 | Oh, it was a treat. |
| 0:36.6 | Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. |
| 0:38.3 | This is from 2019, |
| 0:39.8 | originally episode 275, |
| 0:42.4 | of Charlie Brooker. |
| 0:44.0 | This piece of fiction is the intro to destruction. |
| 0:46.4 | This piece of fiction is the intro to the structure. |
| 0:49.6 | This piece of fiction is the intro to distraction. |
| 0:52.8 | This piece of fiction is the intro to the structure This piece of fiction is the intro to the station |
| 0:56.0 | So I'm joined today by Charlie Brooker. |
| 1:00.5 | How are you, sir? |
| 1:01.4 | I'm all right. |
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