Diane Morgan (VisionQuest), best known as her wonderfully clueless alter-ego Philomena Cunk, is back with a vengeance, bending Hollywood over her knee and giving it a right proper spanking in her brand-new British comedy mockumentary series, Cunk on Cinema.
From Silent Films to Sci-Fi AI
In her latest “take the piss” masterclass, Cunk turns her delightfully unhinged gaze toward the history of humanity’s enduring love affair with the silver screen. The series charts the full, bewildering evolution of film, tracing cinema’s winding path from the earliest primitive camera inventions to the radical storytelling of the 1960s French New Wave, before hurtling at full throttle into the era of modern CGI and the existential dread of artificial intelligence. A genuinely hilarious trailer for the three-part mini-series dropped today, teasing the precise blend of deadpan brilliance fans have come to crave. Cunk on Cinema is set to premiere on November 12, 2026, on BBC iPlayer and BBC Two across the U.K. and Ireland, with a global streaming release following on Netflix.
Hard-Hitting Questions for Hollywood Heavyweights
As Cunk navigates humanity’s vast cinematic landscape, she fearlessly tackles defining masterpieces, including gritty classics like Hot Bum Kitchen, while relentlessly dissecting society’s bizarre, ongoing obsession with iconic celebrities like Marilyn Monroe. Naturally, no Cunk venture would be complete without her signature brand of hard-hitting journalism. The series features her trademark one-on-one sit-down interviews with some of Hollywood’s most recognizable heavyweights, including Benedict Cumberbatch, blockbuster director Michael Bay, and acclaimed composer Daniel Pemberton.
Never one to shrink from the tough queries, Cunk presses these industry titans with the vital, hard-hitting questions mainstream media is simply too afraid to ask, demanding to know precisely how a shark managed to compose the iconic Jaws theme song, and pressing actors to clarify which specific hole one enters when inserting oneself into a character. Prepare yourselves: film history is about to be thoroughly, irreversibly Cunk’d.
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