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Netflix aims to answer every mystery about life in 2025, with the help of Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker and the great Philomena Cunk
The first highlight of 2025 has already been discovered: Netflix has new Philomena Cunk this January
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Cunkmas. Not only does this time of year leave those of us in the know searching YouTube for the never-released-in-the-US Cunk on Christmas special — which deals with yuletide with the kind of hard-hitting questions and searing journalism with which Philomena Cunk tackles every subject; you won’t be expecting the true backstory of Santa Claus — but we’re also just weeks away from the first new Philomena Cunk project in three years.
Cunk on Life — an investigation that sees, in the words of the official description of the project, “deadpan documentarian Philomena Cunk [confounding] philosophers and academics in her quest to understand the meaning of life in this feature-length special” — will debut internationally on Netflix January 2, just days after its December 30 debut on the BBC in the United Kingdom.
Getting a movie to herself is big deal for Philomena (Diane Morgan), who initially debuted as a recurring character on Screen Wipe, the culture commentary show that made creator Charlie Brooker’s reputation in the UK back in 2013. Morgan and Brooker have continued to collaborate on the character as she’s gone from one-off UK TV specials like the aforementioned Cunk on Christmas and Cunk on Shakespeare to full-blown series Cunk on Britain and Cunk on Earth — the latter of which was the first to be picked up by Netflix, which also co-produces Brooker’s Black Mirror.
While we’re excited to see what pearls of wisdom Cunk will share in her new special, we’re a little worried where she’ll end up going after this — after all, what’s left, once you’ve solved life itself? Wait, never mind, we’ve got it: if someone wants to announced Cunk on the Afterlife, we’re in.
Cunk on Life will stream on Netflix January 2. (And maybe, if we're lucky, the other Cunk shows will come over to Netflix before too long, as well...)
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