On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.

My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.

I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

Our four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a way that you're like, "Wow, I've got to stage an intervention here." He picked up on gaming terminology really quickly. If you say, "Keep practicing holding a pencil and see if you can draw a letter, the alphabet," he understands that if you do that you've unlocked Level Two.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.