Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
- TV factual
- BBC Four
- 2006 - 2009
- 28 episodes (5 series)
TV critic and comedy writer Charlie Brooker takes a caustic look at television programmes and reveals the inner workings of the industry.
Key details
- Genre
- Factual
- Broadcast
- 2006 - 2009
- Channel
- BBC Four
- Episodes
- 28 (5 series), plus 1 highlights special
- Features
- Charlie Brooker
- Writers
- Charlie Brooker and David Quantick
- Directors
- Al Campbell
- Producers
- Nick Vaughan Smith, Derek McLean, John Tiffney, Zoe Tait, Kufena Coulter, Victoria Bobin, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones
- Company
Based partly on the creator's Screen Burn columns in The Guardian, this show is an irreverent, authored magazine show for BBC Four in which Charlie Brooker takes a caustic look at television and occasionally shouts at it.
Capsule reviews of the week's high-and-lowlights jostle for position alongside VT reports, features exposing the confused inner workings of the TV industry, animations, and some other stuff.
The show has spawned three spin-offs: Newswipe With Charlie Brooker, which sees the presenter and critic providing a funny, thoughtful and scabrous digest of recent news events; yearly reviews such as Charlie Brooker's 2012 Wipe Out; and Weekly Wipe. An additional one-off episode, Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe, focussed solely on the world of computer games.
Additional details
- Tagline
- A programme all about television.
- Part of
- Production
- Studio
- Picture
- Colour
- Soundtrack
- Theme tune for Screenwipe is A.M. 180 by Grandaddy. Listen
Theme tune for Newswipe is You Are Here (FortDax Remix) by Nathan Fake. Listen
Website links
- Charlie Brooker's Guardian Articles
An archive of the columns Brooker has written for The Guardian - the topics discussed in many of these articles have also appeared in Screenwipe. - IMDb
- Wikipedia