A Touch Of Cloth

Charlie Brooker on A Touch Of Cloth

A Touch Of Cloth is a spoof of grim TV whodunits which owes more than a nod to the puns and sight gags of Airplane! or Naked Gun.

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A Touch of Cloth review

A relentless, 90 minute-cluster-fuck to the funny-bone is almost too much to take in one go. Perhaps this might have been even better if it was trimmed down to an hour.

Radio Times review

"The motivation behind A Touch of Cloth was simple," writes the show's creator Charlie Brooker. "Along with my co-writer, TV Burp's Dan Maier, I wanted to create the silliest programme we could muster, but disguise it as the most serious. Writing this was a joy: we all sat round a table attacking our favourite clichés and lobbing in as many extra gags as possible."

The result is a deadpan spoof of detective shows like Messiah and Luther, starring John Hannah as DI Jack Cloth and Suranne Jones as DC Anne Oldman. Expect lots of moody glances, disturbing flashbacks, gruesome crime scenes, and bits where a maverick cop battles with demons. Inner demons, not actual outer demons, obviously. Inner demons are cheaper to shoot - you don't need CGI.