Cunk on Cinema · S1 · E3

Episode 3

Name: Episode 3
Released: 2026-11-26

TV-MA
Airs Nov 26, 2026
30 min

Cunk heads to Los Angeles to investigate modern-day Hollywood and watch some films you've actually heard of. With the rise of AI, she asks: is cinema finished, or just about to be finished?

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Cunk heads to Los Angeles to investigate modern-day Hollywood and watch some films you've actually heard of. With the rise of AI, she asks: is cinema finished, or just about to be finished?

Season 1

3 episodes · 2 still to air

1Episode 1
30 minNov 12, 2026
Philomena Cunk begins her history of cinema, meets the biggest names in Hollywood, and learns the true meaning of The Wizard of Oz.
2Episode 2
Airs Nov 19, 2026
Philomena Cunk uncovers an age of screen icons, from Marilyn Monroe to Wayne John, and incredible movies, from Taxi Driver to Jaws to Citizen Ken.
3Episode 3
Airs Nov 26, 2026Now viewing
Cunk heads to Los Angeles to investigate modern-day Hollywood and watch some films you've actually heard of. With the rise of AI, she asks: is cinema finished, or just about to be finished?

Guest stars

Sarah ChurchwellSelf - Author, Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream

Mark CousinsSelf - Writer & Documentarian, The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Steven E. de SouzaSelf - Screenwriter, Die Hard

Seamus McGarveySelf - Cinematographer, Atonement, Anna Karenina

Kristopher BoschHal Jutterhole

Shelley CobbSelf - Professor of Film & Feminist Media Studies, University of Southampton

Jim DowdallSelf - Stunt Coordinator & Performer, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, GoldenEye

Michael BaySelf - Director, Bad Boys, The Rock, Transformers / Director, Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon

David RubinSelf - Former President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences