"The National Anthem" | |
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Series Black Mirror Season 1, Episode 1 | |
Air date | December 4th, 2011 |
Writers | Charlie Brooker |
Director | Otto Bathurst |
Producers | Charlie Brooker; Annabel Jones; Emma Pike; Barney Reisz |
Starring | Rory Kinnear; Lindsay Duncan; Donald Sumpter; Tom Goodman-Hill; Anna Wilson-Jones; Lydia Wilson |
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"The National Anthem" is the premiere episode of series one of the British television anthology series Black Mirror. It was directed by Otto Bathurst with a script written by the programme's creator Charlie Brooker. All episodes of series one of Black Mirror became available on Netflix's instant streaming video service on December 4th, 2011. In this episode, the English Prime Minister, Michael Callow, is blackmailed into having deviant sex with a pig in order to save the life of kidnap victim, Princess Suzanne.