Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe

If you enjoy Brooker's brand of wordy, sneering, supercilious, clever-clever diatribes - and I know I do - his family of "wipe" series here takes a new twist. The brief is simple: to look at the events of the week in politics, TV and the online world and mock mercilessly. In other words, it may pick up where what Brooker and others did on Channel 4's ill-fated 10 O'Clock Live left off, but hopefully with less padding and more of the lovingly researched and ludicrous clips his BBC4 shows have. Here's hoping.

Channel 4's ill-fated 10 O'Clock Live was an experiment worth conducting, but ultimately suffered from uncertainty over tone, material and personnel. Charlie Brooker's contributions, however, seldom let the side down, drawn as they frequently were in both style and content from his occasional Screenwipe series on BBC Four.

This six-parter incorporates a bit of both, blending archive hilarity with current affairs, TV with computer games and short films with studio interviews. Fear not, however: the latter seem more likely to involve the likes of Doug Stanhope and Barry Shitpeas than Amy Childs or Jamie Cullen. With the second series imminent of his excellent mini-series of futureshock dramas, Black Mirror, the only danger for Brooker and his relentlessly mordant wit may be overexposure.

Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe - Review

The one segment that felt odd was the film-review-with-guests section, hitting an odd sweet spot of too short to really get going, yet weirdly long as well.

Hopefully he wipes more than weekly, but that's most certainly a side issue. Mr Charlton Brooker returns to BBC2 with a lateral, big-faced look at the week's goings-on in politics, the media, the internet, TV, cinema, computer games, social media ... everything, really. He'll be joined, as ever, by guests and contributors, including US standup and sweary boozeman Doug Stanhope. Sure beats Mock The Week.