Now and Ben: Charlie Brooker & Emma Corrin on Black Mirror

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Film Interviews

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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If you’ve managed to watch any of the excellent seventh series of Black Mirror yet, you might have spotted our super sub Ben Bailey Smith popping up there... and just for you he’s collared his fellow dystopians Charlie Brooker and Emma Corrin for a chat about the mind-bending anthology’s latest iteration. Brooker is the writer and creator of the show, which has been sending sci-fi shivers down our spines since it first hit British TV screens in 2011, before going global with Netflix in 2016. So for over a decade, “it’s all a bit Black Mirror” has been the phrase on everyone’s lips whenever real-world technology makes another ever-so-slightly terrifying leap forward. Emma Corrin stars in episode three of the new series, ‘Hotel Reverie’, in which a cutting-edge filmmaking technology called ReDream allows modern day actors to star in high-tech remakes of classic films. Actor Brandy (Issa Rae) steps into the world of a 1940s movie—where she meets Corrin’s golden age star Dorothy. Charlie and Emma chat to Ben about Hotel Reverie and the rest of the brand new series. They talk golden age Hollywood, the shipping forecast, and erm... bowling? It goes places. Listen now for the whole story! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ben here. Now, I am a self-diagnosed documentary addict. Unfortunately, Netflix is serving up some serious fare this month.
0:09.0	First up, streaming right now is Diamond Heist, which is a premium doc series produced by the doyen of Geesea pictures, Guy Ritchie.
0:16.4	It's the story of a plan to steal a diamond in a hall worth 350 million pounds but here's the thing it's
0:22.4	all told firsthand by the perpetrators themselves and the squad who foiled them it's presented
0:28.4	with all the trademark crash bang and wallop you'd expect and if you're still hungry for more
0:33.9	there's two other true stories coming to Netflix this month. Bad influence, the dark
0:38.6	side of kid fluencing, which is this doc that tells some unsettling truths about child influences
0:44.1	via the story of viral star named Piper Raquel and Oklahoma City bombing, American Terror,
0:50.6	all about the tragic events in Oklahoma back on April 19, 1995.
0:55.7	Now, you're not going to get this selection anywhere else, so start streaming today on Netflix.
1:00.8	Hello and welcome to Now and Ben, where our super sub-Benzh,
1:04.9	brings you extra nuggets of guest interview goodness.
1:07.8	This time, Ben chats to Black mirror creator Charlie Brooker to celebrate the
1:11.8	sci-fi anthology's seventh series and Emma Corrin, star of its third episode, Hotel Reverie.
1:18.6	They talk tech dystopia, the shipping forecast and bowling. Keep your eye on the take feed for
1:25.4	these interview treats every now and Ben.
1:29.2	I'm here with Charlie Brooker and Emory Corrin.
1:32.1	Charlie, let's start with you, because I'm just wondering how you felt when you picture
1:37.5	locked on the very last frame of the very last episode you worked on in this new series.
1:43.9	I probably needed the toilet or something.
1:46.7	Probably something like that.
1:48.0	Probably something really unglamorous like that.
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