Diane Morgan is coming back to our screens as Philomena Cunk in a new five-part mockumentary series, Cunk On Earth, which promises to be: “her most ambitious quest to date; venturing right up humanity to find out who we are, how we got here and what was the point”.
Written by Charlie Brooker, Ben Caudell, Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris, the show will be broadcast on BBC Two later in 2022.
Brooker said: “I am delighted to be working with Philomena again, even though she is a fictional character who, like me, has never experienced the emotion of ‘delight’ and has only a limited understanding of what constitutes ‘work’.
“In pursuit of nothing less than the definitive story of human civilisation, she’s going to visit every corner of the globe our budget and official pandemic travel restrictions will allow. Globes don’t have corners but you know what I mean.
“Diane Morgan is very funny. I have run out of things to say in this quote. Stop reading. Go away.”
Philomena Cunk herself said: “This series it’s in my contract to go somewhere better than just Britain so I’m hoping I at least go to Italy as that seems a safe bet.
“I’m looking forward to getting out of the house and tracing humanity’s progress and also finding out exactly what a ‘civilisations’ is.”
Diane Morgan tweeted “CUNK IS BACK! (As if you hadn’t already had enough of me) later this year on @BBCTwo and @netflix“
Tanya Qureshi, Head of Comedy at the BBC, said: “We couldn’t be more excited that Philomena Cunk is returning to the BBC.”
Viewers outside the UK will be able to watch the show on Netflix.
