Occupation: Broadcaster Birth: March 3, 1971
I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical..
Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone..
"Be Right Back," in which Hayley Atwell brings Domhnall Gleeson back from the dead using his social-media profile, sprang out of an unrelated convers….
I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me..
[British television series] Hammer House of Horror. I used to really enjoy these one-off stories where often there would be an incredibly cruel twist….
My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older..
Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those..
In summary, our world is doomed..
What is useful about when there is a sort of pull-out to reveal moment going on is that it actually focuses the mind when you're writing the earlier ….
You don't have the economy of scale of building a set once and casting once. You blow up the world, basically, at the end of each episode..
I'm quite geeky and I'm very much into video games and technology and stuff like that..
As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge..
"National Anthem" was just a funny idea I'd been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that - and then I watched….
If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come ….
The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to….
We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to the crazy blonde hair. Then Mayor of Lo….
Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything..
Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak..
I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in o….
I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth..
[My parents when I was a kid] would go, "It's a nice hot day. Why are you inside watching the TV?" And you go, "Well, 'cause it's better?".