Charlie Brooker

Konnie Huq welcomes baby boy

TV Gossip

25 Mar 2012

Konnie Huq has become a mother for the first time. The former 'Xtra Factor' host and her husband Charlie Brooker - the creator of controversial Channel 4 satirical drama 'Black Mirror' - welcomed a baby boy into the world on Friday (23.03.12) and…

Konnie Huq pregnant with first child

TV Gossip

15 Dec 2011

Konnie Huq is pregnant with her first child. The former 'Xtra Factor' host and her husband Charlie Brooker - the creator of controversial Channel 4 satirical drama 'Black Mirror' - are expecting a baby boy next April and the couple are said to be…

Channel 4 to launch British Family Guy and new drama from Charlie Brooker

TV Gossip

12 May 2011

Channel 4 is to launch a British version of 'Family Guy'. The "edgy" cartoon - entitled 'Happy Families' - will be made by the same people behind 'The Simpsons Movie' and will follow the lives of a typical suburban family living in the UK. 'Happy…

Konnie Huq to marry Charlie Brooker?

TV Gossip

9 Jun 2010

Konnie Huq has cancelled a romantic trip to Las Vegas amid rumours she's planning to marry her boyfriend Charlie Brooker. The former 'Blue Peter' presenter - who has just announced she will take over from mum-of-one Holly Willoughby and front the new…

We Like...

6 Aug 2009

This week, we like Radiohead’s back catalogue finally coming to Spotify, and Charlie Brooker’s panel show. Just because we do. We also like wearing sweetie necklaces in celebration of classic Glasgow sweet shop I Love Candy opening up an Edinburgh…

TV of the Year

11 Dec 2008

Dexter The Miami serial killer with a heart wins Best New US Drama category with Mad Men, Damages and John Adams just behind. The Fallen An unbearably moving three-hour documentary about the British lives lost fighting the War on Terror, told by…

Dead Set - Charlie Brooker

16 Oct 2008

In George A Romero’s seminal 1980 horror Dawn of the Dead, a group of mismatched survivors of the zombie apocalypse take shelter in a deserted mall. Famously, the film is Romero’s thinly veiled up-yours to consumerist Western society, to the ‘zombies…

Charlie Brooker

15 Nov 2007

COLLECTED JOURNALISM Dawn of the Dumb (Faber) Listening to a verbose man rant on and on about the things that irritate him can be a relentless and exhausting chore at times. Put that down in print and those same demented opinions can appear more…