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  1. Mar 24, 2015 · Charlie Brooker. Charlie Brooker: From flooding to Benefits Street, the rise of Ukip to the Apple Watch, the year was filled with huge, grim events. We could all use a lie-down over...

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  2. Brooker won the 2009 Columnist of the Year award at the British Press Awards for his Guardian column. Dead Set was nominated for the 2009 Best Drama Serial BAFTA . In 2010, he was given the Best Entertainment Programme Award for Newswipe from the Royal Television Society .

    • His full name isn't Charles. His parents named him Charlton Brooker after Charlton Rollnick Jr., a character who appeared in a solitary episode of classic U.S. sitcom Bewitched.
    • He was raised in a Quaker household in the village of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire. However, Brooker has said that his family wasn't super-staunch and he was raised Quaker "only in a relaxed, don't-fret-too-much-about-the-God stuff kind of way."
    • He doesn’t think he’s that posh. Asked how posh he is, Brooker told The Guardian in 2016: "By background not very. People always assume I went to [a fee-paying British] public school, which I didn’t, so that immediately puts me somewhere.
    • He's married to well-known British TV presenter Konnie Huq. Huq is best known for being the longest-serving female presenter on beloved British children's show Blue Peter, which she co-hosted from 1997 to 2008.
  3. Sep 21, 2015 · To fill you in: four years ago, Charlie Brooker’s dystopian TV series Black Mirror began with an episode called the National Anthem, in which the prime minister of Britain – to hoots of...

  4. Apr 11, 2019 · Jon Hamm – who, with the Mad Men finale still six months away, was one of the most lauded TV actors around – had approached the show’s co-creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones about...

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