Charlie Brooker

Konnie Huq talks about marrying Charlie Brooker

Ex-Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq admits she's a nerd - but doesn't know if she's legally married to Charlie Brooker.

Chris (Daniel Rigby) is an undercover policeman, currently on a mission to ingratiate himself into a violent Armenian family and gain evidence of their criminal dealings. A mild cop show spoof at times borrowing the mock-dramatic pacing of Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier's police procedural parody A Touch Of Cloth - but not, sadly, the jokes - what this feels most like is a comedy vehicle for Rigby, otherwise known as the awkward one from the BT adverts. Which would be no bad thing if it weren't such a feeble effort.

Black Mirror will be back, but could be made by Netflix

Charlie Brooker is penning more series of the technofear thriller - but he is currently being wooed by the US streaming giant alongside other American broadcasters, RadioTimes.com can reveal.

TV review: Charlie Brooker's Election Wipe, BBC2

What does it say in the Bible about the last coming first? After an election campaign that has been crammed to the brink with satirical programmes, Charlie Brooker bowled along just as last orders were being called to show the rest how it should be done.

Charlie Brooker is unique in his approach to current affairs. He doesn't cheapen issues by trying to be funny about a serious topic; he simply teases out the contradictions and then pours on his own cynicism. After all, he can't be as cynical as the media he's ostensibly reporting on. For all the fun he has at the expense of American broadcasters while slurping pretend tea on his living-room Chesterfield, tonight it will be his mission to uncover truth from British politicians.

Radio Times review

Charlie Brooker is just what we need to cut politicians and pundits down to size after five weeks of campaigning. He's as funny, and spot-on, about TV coverage of the election as he is about the candidates themselves. Where shows like Have I got News for You mock the politicians, Brooker also satirises the good, bad and ugly coverage itself.

Expect disparaging dissection of all the parties, and quite a lot of deadpan exasperation with it. Best of all, he'll have the brilliantly dim Philomena Cunk by his side to really get to the bottom of all this election stuff. Because as Cunk would say, "What is politicians?"

Radio Times review

A great cast - Vincent Franklin from Cucumber, Hugh Skinner (dumb Will in W1A), and Rufus Jones (camp David, also in W1A) do their best in this queasy sitcom about drone pilots.

The bored little group are closeted in a cabin on a bleak airfield, their days characterised by long stretches of yawning boredom punctuated by administering sudden death in the Middle East, and sometimes they get it wrong.

It's a black comedy (there's a very off-colour gag about social services) but it's not black enough and consequently not funny enough. It's the kind of thing Charlie Brooker would do ruthlessly well, yet writer Guy Jenkin (Ballot Monkeys and Drop the Dead Donkey) lets it drift into farce.

Charlie Brooker: Farage has been giving him problems

"Nigel Farage is like a flipping, slightly pissed-up sort of brother-in-law or something," according to Charlie Brooker, who'll be presenting his customary Election Wipe this evening on BBC Two, ahead of tomorrow's turnout for what is predicted to be the closest election in years.

Charlie Brooker takes on immigration reporting in Wipe

In a clip from tonight's Screen Wipe special, the writer and broadcaster finds formulaic news bulletins ripe for parody.

Charlie Brooker on the leaders' debates

What sort of person can't decide who to vote for, but can rate how much they like whatever they're hearing out of five, and wants to sit there tapping a button accordingly?