Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
- TV comedy
- BBC Two
- 2013 - 2015
- 15 episodes (3 series)
Charlie Brooker and his guests cast their collective eyes over all that the week's TV, cinema, news and computer games have to offer. Stars Charlie Brooker, Al Campbell, Diane Morgan, Morgana Robinson, Doug Stanhope and more.
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TV review: Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, BBC Two
I've loved Brooker ever since I first came across his TV Go Home website back in the days of narrowband, but last night's episode was a relatively thin gruel of grumpiness, despite having a team of crack writers, compared to the bile-filled riches he used to serve up when I imagined him scribbling away alone at home, steam coming out of his ears, in a dingy bedsit in his pants. Charlie Brooker is, how can I put it politely, in danger of getting a bit too nice.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th January 2014A new season of the Wipe is always welcome. Each week, Brooker casts his customarily jaundiced eye across the worlds of the media, politics and the internet, as well as developments in TV, cinema, computer games and social media. Part of his success is that he doesn't hog the show but gets in good wingmen. Tonight's opener features contributions by comedians Jake Yapp and Brian Limond of Limmy's Show, as well as regular guest and American cultural correspondent Doug Stanhope.
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 9th January 2014Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker turns his satirical eye on the week's media output for a second series of swipes at whatever tickles his darkly comic fancy across all manner of technological platforms.
Indulging his passion for the spoken word, Brooker twists his tongue around anything and everything that gets his goat. With contributions from Brooker's regular US-watcher, comedian Doug Stanhope, and guests including jokers Jake Yapp and Brian 'Limmy' Limond.
Carol Carter and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 9th January 2014BBC confirms another series of Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe will return for a six part series in early 2014, plus Brooker is set to broadcast his annual round-up of the year.
British Comedy Guide, 5th November 2013Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe to return
BBC Two has ordered a second series of Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, the British Comedy Guide has learned.
British Comedy Guide, 30th August 2013Charlie Brooker: Bad meat and angry meteors
One peculiar consequence of the horse meat story is that just about every news bulletin for the past 10 days has featured stock footage of the inside of an abattoir. I'm fairly confident I could now eat sandwiches in a field-hospital tent during a civil war.
Charlie Brooker, The Guardian, 17th February 2013Charlie Brooker answers your questions
What's the worst TV programme ever made? What's going on with your hair? And what do you think of Guardian commenters? Charlie Brooker answers your questions. Grudgingly.
Jon Henley, The Guardian, 6th February 2013Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe review
Charlie Brooker is like a naughty Stephen Fry, he knows loads and we love him for it but unlike meeting Fry we wouldn't want to be faced with Charlie in real life in case he cut us down to size with his usual succinct sarcasm.
Kate Bellamy, Metro, 4th February 2013Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe - Episode 1.1 review
There's something strangely endearing about the professionally angry Charlie Brooker's confrontational, half-arsed approach to making TV.
UK TV Reviewer, 2nd February 2013Writer and broadcaster Charlie Brooker casts his wry eye over seven days of swipe-worthy offerings on all manner of screen-based technology. From big-screen movies to internet-based entertainment picked up on small-screen devices, no transmission is safe from Brooker's lashing tongue and all-seeing eye. Contributing to the gleeful diatribes each week will be a selection of special guests, plus regular interjections from US joker Doug Stanhope.
Carol Carter and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 31st January 2013