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.
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Blog Review
Ah, Charlie Brooker. Anyone with any sense and love of TV reads his Guardian Screen Burn column every Saturday. It's usually the funniest thing you'll read that week. However, his Screen Wipe review show, which pretty much translates Screen Burn into pictures, hasn't been so compelling.
Rob Buckley, The Medium Is Not Enough, 7th August 2006Off The Telly Review
Brooker, self-confessed rubbish presenter, seems to have the attention span of a gnat. Given a full half-hour to really get going on ridiculous text-message competitions designed to grab the viewer's money, the lamentable nature of daytime TV and the dozen or so other topics he selected just for the first episode, he still produces more or less the same few hundred words he'd use in Screen Burn.
Rob Buckley, Off The Telly, 3rd March 2006Whether or not you find Brooker's brand of humour enjoyable, chances are the show will fall flat on its face by dint of being neither particularly funny nor particularly offensive - at least if the man's companion column in the Guardian is anything to go by, what with its obvious swearing, easy targets and plain cock-ups ("discovering" Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow on the morning of its final transmission, stating the top prize in Deal or No Deal as £200,000).
Ian Jones, Off The Telly, 8th February 2006