London TV Award nomination Charlie Brooker : 'This was a dementedly brilliant idea. The satire was so audacious, it left me open-mouthed and squealing.'

The Telegraph: "The cast treated the ridiculous premise [the PM ‘having live televised sex. With a pig.’] with po-faced seriousness, which was the only way. Rory Kinnear was particularly compelling as the PM, going from disbelief to dutiful self-sacrifice as the grim situation unfolded. “What now? What’s the playbook?” he asked in panic. His advisor replied: “This is virgin territory, Prime Minister. There is no playbook.

"Virgin territory indeed. This was a dementedly brilliant idea. The satire was so audacious, it left me open-mouthed and squealing. Rather like that poor pig."

Charlie Brooker seems to both empathise with and hate the Twitter generation, the scenarios he depicts are all too real, which leaves more than a few laughs catching in your throat. This is satire at its darkest; Brooker perfectly captures the cynical anticipation and excitement of the masses, at the thought of watching their PM taking one for the team on live television.

Black Mirror is a hard look at the grotesque aspects of our society, how social media can corrupt and influence power and, most importantly, how our unquenchable thirst for constant entertainment and information is responsible for the questionable actions of both the news media and our Government.