Annabel Jones


Annabel Jones is a Welsh television producer, best known for producing Black Mirror with Charlie Brooker. She is a co-writer of the 2018 book Inside Black Mirror, with Brooker and Jason Arnopp. Jones is co-founder of the production company Broke and Bones, alongside Brooker.

Early life

Jones was born in Haverfordwest, Wales January 1972 and grew up in Milford Haven, Wales. She began studying developmental economics at the London School of Economics in 1990. After graduating in 1994, she worked for television production companies in Soho, London.

Career

Jones became an executive at the production company Endemol. She began working with Charlie Brooker at the production company Zeppotron, owned by Endemol, on five series of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, the first two series of the science fiction anthology series Black Mirror and the satirical police procedural A Touch of Cloth. Jones and Brooker founded the Endemol Shine production company House of Tomorrow in 2014, Jones serving as managing director. It had a revenue of £31.2 million in 2018. Jones and Brooker quit the label House of Tomorrow in January 2020, founding the production company Broke and Bones in February 2020. The pair each have a 50% share in the company.

Filmography

TitleYearExecutive producerNotes
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe2006–2008Program consultant
Dead Set2008
Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe2009
Newswipe with Charlie Brooker2009–2010
Charlie Brooker's 2010 Wipe2010
How TV Ruined Your Life2011
Charlie Brooker's 2011 Wipe2011
Black Mirror2011–2019
Charlie Brooker's 2012 Wipe2012
A Touch of Cloth2012–2014
How Videogames Changed the World2013
Charlie Brooker's 2013 Wipe2013
Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe2013–2015
Charlie Brooker's 2014 Wipe2014
Charlie Brooker's Election Wipe2015
Charlie Brooker's 2015 Wipe2015
Cunk on Shakespeare2016
Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe2016
Cunk on Christmas2016
Cunk on Britain2017
Cunk and Other Humans on 20192019
Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe2020
Death to 20202020Also co-creator
Attack of the Hollywood Cliches!2021
Death to 20212021Also co-creator
Cat Burglar2022
Toxic Town2025

Awards and nominations

In 2017, Jones won a Primetime Emmy Award for the Black Mirror episode "San Junipero" and in 2018, won another for the episode "USS Callister". Alongside other individuals associated with the series, Jones was credited in the programme's nomination for the 2018 Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series and the 2017 nomination and 2018 awarding of the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Long-Form Television.

Awards

Nominations

Personal life

Jones is a vegetarian.