{"id":243618,"date":"2025-07-06T21:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243618\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T21:21:11","slug":"black-mirrors-pilot-was-actually-inspired-by-this-gross-british-reality-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243618\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mirror&#8217;s Pilot Was Actually Inspired By This Gross British Reality Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2085059\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Mirror<\/a>,&#8221; <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0111765\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Brooker<\/a>&#8216;s anthology series about the perils of technology that originally aired on <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0706824\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel 4<\/a> in the United Kingdom before jumping ship to <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a>, is a deeply disturbing show by any metric. With that said, it starts on a really, really unsettling note with the episode &#8220;The National Anthem,&#8221; in which Prime Minister Michael Callow (<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1239499\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rory Kinnear<\/a>) learns that Princess Susannah (<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3575723\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lydia Wilson<\/a>), a member of the British royal family, is being held hostage. Susannah&#8217;s captor forces the princess to record a video where she outlines the condition for her survival and release: that Callow have sexual intercourse to completion with a pig on live television. Though Callow and his team try and outsmart the captor (by hiring an adult film star to stand in as Callow as they try and track down the princess), he ultimately performs the act &#8212; only to discover that the princess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Black Mirror,&#8221; Charlie Brooker&#8216;s anthology series about the perils of technology that originally aired on Channel 4 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[94645,94646,94644,3063,498,94642,94647,5105,7710,519,448,6682,94643,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-243618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-attori","9":"tag-attrici","10":"tag-celebrita","11":"tag-film","12":"tag-hollywood","13":"tag-notizie","14":"tag-registi","15":"tag-royal","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-royals","19":"tag-star","20":"tag-televisione","21":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114808388573935517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}