Cunk on... (2018)

Philomena Cunk is the presenter of the landmark documentary taken to its logical end: the walk-and-talk to camera, the portentous music, the expert nodding through a question that makes no sense. Diane Morgan plays her, Charlie Brooker created her, and the real joke is that the historians she interviews are genuine and have to answer. Cunk on Britain is the tighter run; Cunk on Earth, a five-part tour of human civilisation, is the one most viewers outside the UK will find on Netflix. Both work as satire of the format rather than of any headline, so they will not date. Cunk on Cinema has been announced for the BBC and Netflix.