- #WHY WAS THE BLACK MIRROR EPISODE CALLED CROCODILE SERIES#
- #WHY WAS THE BLACK MIRROR EPISODE CALLED CROCODILE TV#
Everyone realised they were responsible for what was going on and they had a part to play in it. Then when we got to the moment of everyone watching the prime minister fuck the pig – the room just changed completely. We had a lot of press in the theatre and for the first 15–20 mins everyone was on board really enjoying it. Otto Bathurst (Director): When we did our press screening, it was a very powerful event. She laughed and then we had a conversation where she asked, ‘Does it have to be a pig?’ We had a bit of back and forth on that and then I went off and wrote the first ten or eleven pages over the weekend and sent her an email saying ‘this is the tone of it’ and she went for it. I think the way I described it was that it was a bit like an episode of 24, a ticking bomb thriller but with a ridiculous premise. I was thinking, ‘No, hang on, you’re right.’ I then just pitched the idea of “The National Anthem” to her. I had this meeting with her and she was outlining the reasons why she didn’t particularly want to do (the other episode) and I was kind of agreeing with her. We had a conversation about it, there was a bit of back and forth, things came to a head and I was gonna have to go into her office and try and convince her that we should do this episode as scripted.īut there was this other idea, “The National Anthem”. Then Jay Hunt came in from Channel 4 and word came back that she wasn’t a fan of this particular script. We had a director on board, we were gonna do it, we were greenlit. It was all a little bit odd and it was probably painfully earnest. There was another episode we were going to do that was totally different, which was kind of a war parable, not a million miles away from the “Men Against Fire” episode that we ended up doing. A grim satire of modern society, the show examined our relationship with technology in a way that hadn’t been seen before on TV.Ĭharlie Brooker: I think the first episode that was written was “15 Million Merits”.
#WHY WAS THE BLACK MIRROR EPISODE CALLED CROCODILE SERIES#
In 2011, the first series of Black Mirror aired on Channel 4. Although there are certainly moments where we’ve stretched our credibility. We are quite competitive about who can out-gross each other. In Black Mirror that combines itself to create sometimes grounded, credible worlds. He’s the natural pessimist and worrier and I’m forever trying to put a positive spin on something. In terms of the dynamic – it’s mutual disrespect. That was the original idea, then it morphed.Īnnabel Jones (Showrunner): Charlie and I have worked together for a long time. The original pitch suggested eight half-hour episodes, each one by a different author with a technological twist at the core. I thought, “If you were doing that now, what would the obsessions of today be?” Technology seemed like a fairly obvious one.
He realised if he dressed it all up as a metaphor he could write about anything he wanted but would use aliens or whatever as an analogy.
#WHY WAS THE BLACK MIRROR EPISODE CALLED CROCODILE TV#
He created that show because he was a playwright and was trying to write TV plays about racism and McCarthyism and they were getting censored. I’d read this biography of Rod Serling who created The Twilight Zone and it was interesting why he did it. I’d always liked shows like The Twilight Zone or Hammer House of Horror or Tales of the Unexpected. Channel 4 liked it and asked, “What else would you like to come up with, what else interests you?” Its premise was that there’s a zombie apocalypse during a season of Big Brother and the last people in Britain to find out are the Big Brother housemates – a group of people who have been chosen to not get on. Strap in.Ĭharlie Brooker (Creator): We’d done a show for Channel 4 called Dead Set which was kind of a forerunner to Black Mirror. Over the course of three months, we spoke with the key creators of Black Mirror to reflect on its three series to date, discover its origins and future, and uncover how the episodes are built for the most wildly original and unrelentingly dark show on television. This collision of thoughts perfectly captures the world of Black Mirror: melancholia, black comedy, technology and our relationship to it all mixed together and played out as harsh realism, no matter how absurd or cruel the scenario. Secondly, one late night scrolling through Twitter, he imagined that everyone on the site was dead and were just being emulated by a piece of software.
He found himself caught in a strange moment of sadness and guilt at having to delete the person’s number off his mobile phone – even though he would never need it again. Charlie Brooker said the idea for Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back” was sparked by two things: the first was when was he was trying to clear space on his phone (in the days when you had limited storage) and he came across a contact for a friend who had passed away.
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