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.
Episode menu
Series 5, Episode 2
In an advertising special, there are reports from a mysterious insider dishing the dirt on all that is bad in the industry, plus a potted history of advertising. Brooker reveals the changing psychology used to keep people buying and how the portrayal of men and women in advertising have changed, while poet Tim Key gives us an advert-related verse.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 25th November 2008
- Time
- 10:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Four
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Charlie Brooker | Host / Presenter |
| Tim Key | Self |
| Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace | Self |
| Charlie Brooker | Writer |
| Al Campbell | Director |
| Nick Vaughan Smith | Series Producer |
| Kufena Coulter | Producer |
| Charlie Brooker | Executive Producer |
| Annabel Jones | Executive Producer |
| Damon Tai | Editor |
| Jamie Shemeld | Editor |