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The comedy event — titled 'Death to 2020' — stars Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow and Kumail Nanjiani, and reunites Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones with Cristin Milioti.Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones are taking on 2020.The&nbsp;Black Mirror&nbsp;creators have set a star-studded cast for an upcoming comedy special at Netflix — titled&nbsp;Death to 2020.The comedy event, which the streaming giant describes as a landmark documentary-style special, will star Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow, Kumail Nanjiani, Tracey Ullman, Samson Kayo, Leslie Jones, Diane Morgan and Joe Keery, and&nbsp;Black Mirror&nbsp;alum&nbsp;Cristin Milioti who starred in the Emmy-winning episode&nbsp;An air date has yet to be announced.The synopsis from Netflix reads: “2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of&nbsp;Black Mirror&nbsp;couldn’t make it up… but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a little something to add.&nbsp;Death to 2020&nbsp;is a comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was — and perhaps still is?”The special will weave together some of the world’s most (fictitious) renowned voices with real-life archival footage spanning the past 12 months and is&nbsp;described as “the cathartic comedy event you’ll never forget about the year you really, really don’t want to remember.” In a recent , Grant said only that he would be playing "a historian who’s being interviewed about the year. I’m pretty repellent, actually! And you’ll like my wig."Death to 2020&nbsp;is created and executive produced by Brooker and Jones — who have&nbsp;&nbsp;— and is produced by Alison Marlow.&nbsp;The duo have a long-standing relationship with Netflix, with&nbsp;Black Mirror&nbsp;coming to the streaming giant from Channel 4 in 2015 and running for three subsequent seasons, as well as TV movie . The series, which is written by Brooker and exec produced by Jones, has won five Emmys.Brooker and Jones are famously tight-lipped about their projects and Death to 2020 is still in production. The pair, who experimented with interactive TV with&nbsp;,&nbsp;were after the 2019 release of season five of their dystopian — and often eerily prescient — anthology series.Watch a teaser for Death to 2020 below.

The comedy event — titled 'Death to 2020' — stars Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow and Kumail Nanjiani, and reunites Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones with Cristin Milioti.Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones are taking on 2020.The&nbsp;Black Mirror&nbsp;creators have set a star-studded cast for an upcoming comedy special at Netflix — titled&nbsp;Death to 2020.The comedy event, which the streaming giant describes as a landmark documentary-style special, will star Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow, Kumail Nanjiani, Tracey Ullman, Samson Kayo, Leslie Jones, Diane Morgan and...

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