Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker returns for a second series of this wryly amusing panel show, in which he goes through a selection of topical TV clips with three guests, quizzing them on the content and generally being a cynical wit: think Harry Hill's TV Burp meets Have I Got News for You, with minimal emphasis on actual point-scoring. Tonight, Brooker's guests are David Baddiel, Liza Tarbuck and comedian Kevin Bridges.

A well-deserved second series for Charlie Brooker's vitriolic panel show, which vents its spleen on the best and worst of the week's crop of telly. It's essentially a more mainstream format of Brooker's show Screenwipe - although not as mainstream as the BBC's similar effort, As Seen On TV - which was more of a projectile vomit than a TV burp.

YHBW is usually a good place to catch up with all those digital TV oddities that might have escaped your attention while you were watching Countryfile.

On this week's show Liza Tarbuck, David Baddiel and Scottish comedian Kevin Bridges will be trying to score points and attempting to work up the same head of amusing, free-flowing rage that Brooker manages so effortlessly.

The televised election debates kick off tonight on ITV1, however a more important debate occurs straight afterwards on Channel 4, as Charlie Brooker returns with a new series of telly debate/quiz show You Have Been Watching.

The first series was a bit patchy, with its success depending on the balance of both guests and clips. The quiz element didn't really work, except in the week Victoria Coren was on and got uber-competitive, although this element remains in the second series. Expect discussion over the course of the series to involve the televised political debates, Doctor Who, Ashes to Ashes, Britain's Got Talent and the best of international telly. Oh, and Lord Charlton has a horrible new haircut, but hopefully that won't stick around.

Charlie Brooker ashamed to beat Britain's Got Talent

Charlie Brooker has claimed that he was "ashamed" to triumph over Britain's Got Talent at the recent RTS Awards.

Viral Video Chart: Charlie Brooker on TV news

The viral blockbuster award of this week definitely goes to Charlie Brooker. "It starts here with a lacklustre establishing shot of a significant location," is the first sentence of Brooker's spoof news report for BBC Four's Newswipe showing, of course, no significant location but some random dirt-brownish looking skyscrapers in the London Docklands.

Newswipe becomes YouTube's top rated video

Charlie Brooker - the British writer, satirist and grumpy television reviewer whose regular skewering TV's more inane moments has made him a cult figure in the UK - has now gone global, after a two-minute clip from his show Newswipe became the top rated clip of all time on YouTube less than a week after it was posted.

TV Review: Newswipe with Charlie Brooker

It's good to have Charlie Brooker back and on-bile. Yep, the nicest grump on TV returned with his brilliant series, Newswipe with Charlie Brooker to lance the truth-pus out of the boil that is The News.

There's a strong tradition of savage ripostes to the madness of current events - chiefly from America. With Have I Got News for You still providing the spikiest satirical take on current affairs in the UK, such shows are undoubtedly up for Daily Show-style rejuvenation, a service the second series of Newswipe - a reliably savage Charlie Brooker production - looks certain to continue. Journalists such as Marina Hyde will comment on news events, there will be authored pieces and a poem, but it will be the presenter's eye for the monstrous and absurd that will provide the moral focus.

Lock up your granddaughters: Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross are reunited for the first time since Sachsgate as one of the teams on this annual topical ding-dong. Expect edgy banter from the controversial pair, alongside fellow panellists David Mitchell, Claudia Winkleman, Rob Brydon and Newswipe's Charlie Brooker. Jimmy Carr keeps score.

Andrew Sachs probably won't be tuning in for this one. Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand are reunited on television for the first time since Sachsgate. However, this being Channel 4, don't expect a grovelling apology at the beginning but plenty of jokes about telephone calls, Spanish waiters and Satanic Sluts. Jimmy Carr is in the chair for what has become an annual festive highlight, poking fun at the biggest stories of the year. Ross and Brand have been cheekily paired together and up against them will be Claudia Winkleman and Rob Brydon and David Mitchell and the TV critic Charlie Brooker, making his first appearance. Peter Andre is among the celebrity questioners, but rumours that Tiger Woods will be appearing are wide of the mark.