So in a way, I'm sort of - I tend to focus more on the - initially on the sort of more popcorn, what I see as the sort of popcorn, hooky sort of storytelling device rather than the real world sort of mirror to what I'm - to, you know, the subject of the episode. ![]() And then if it - if there's some technological means by which I can see that event happening, I'll sort of latch onto that if that makes sense, so I tend to work it round that way. ![]() What happens is often I'll be in conversation with somebody often Annabel Jones, who's the co-showrunner on the show, and I'll - often I'm just thinking of what strikes me as a fairly delicious what-if idea, basically. I suppose really, what I don't tend to do actually is kind of look at the news or look at technological developments and then try and think of a storyline based around those, generally. GROSS: So I imagine - I'm trying to imagine your writing process, and you being in front of your screen writing and thinking, how can I take trolling and Twitter lynch mobs to its ultimate extreme? (Laughter) What was your process like of coming up with that premise?īROOKER: Well, it's not a million miles away from that. GROSS: Charlie Brooker, welcome to FRESH AIR. MARSAY: (As Chloe Perrine) Yeah, and it's growing. MACDONALD: (As Karin Parke) Someone's holding a public ballot bumping off the top person. Three - most popular targets will be eliminated after 5 p.m. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Two - post their name and photo with hashtag #deathto. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Game of consequences. Pick someone you don't like, and if enough other people choose the same name, then that's who gets targeted. MARSAY: (As Chloe Perrine) It's like an unpopularity contest. KELLY MACDONALD: (As Karin Parke) Game of consequences. specialist are investigating some unusual deaths that seem linked to a hashtag on Twitter that's targeting people for execution.įAYE MARSAY: (As Chloe Perrine) So each tweet have a sort of instruction video attached to it. Let's start with a scene from the new season of "Black Mirror." In this episode called "Hated In The Nation," a detective played by Kelly Macdonald and an I.T. Brooker started his career in comedy and has done several shows on British TV satirizing the news and the media. The series originated on the BBC, and season three will be up on Netflix tomorrow. My guest Charlie Brooker created "Black Mirror" and is the primary writer. It's a dystopian anthology series inspired by shows like "The Twilight Zone," but set in the digital era. If you've ever been a victim of malware, been shamed on Twitter, tried to secretly watch online pornography or just worried about the unintended consequences of the Internet, social media and artificial intelligence, well, the British series "Black Mirror" is for you. I'm A Celebrity South Africa continues on ITV and ITVX on Tuesday at 9pm.This is FRESH AIR. It might have been for them but it certainly wasn’t for me!” “But I have never been able to forget about my fainting in the jungle! I have been reminded about I’m A Celebrity every single day since I came out by taxi drivers and people in the street! They all talk about it as if it were yesterday. “Sometimes you can stop yourself if you get close to the ground but the problem with the jungle is there were all these leeches and so there was no way I was going to throw myself on the ground. They were about to say: ‘do you take this man to be your husband?’ and I passed out. I even fainted at a wedding once when I was the bridesmaid. I have fainted several times and not just in the jungle. “The day before we did the live Trial, I hadn’t had much to eat and I wasn’t feeling very well – which is the precursor to passing out. “I have a history of fainting since childhood,” explains Gillian. Gillian also denied faking her fainting the last time around, despite accusations she fell to the floor to avoid doing trials. As a child, I’d never liked the idea of camping but sleeping in the hammock in the jungle was peaceful – so long as there were no insects crawling over you!” But one thing I would say is when I look back on the experience, it did surprise me that I could sleep outside. ![]() She added: "Doing the programme didn’t change me. ![]() What I felt before feels 1000 times worse now and all of it freaks me out but I feel I’ve got a calling to represent all the scaredy cats in Britain – and that is the reason why I’ve said yes." In her pre-show interview, she says: "It’s going to be more terrifying this time because back then, I didn’t know what to expect but this time I can’t use that as an excuse. Meanwhile, in Tuesday's episode, Gillian reveals all on why she thinks her I'm A Celebrity experience is going to be harder a second time around. "Is she as mad as a box of frogs?" Paul Burrell asks Shaun, away from Gillian, to which he replies: "Yes, last time I wanted to kill her."
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