Charlie Brooker's Year Wipe
- TV comedy
- BBC Two / BBC Four
- 2010 - 2019
- 7 episodes (7 series)
Charlie Brooker turns his inimitably satirical eye to reviewing the whole of the previous 12 months. Also features Al Campbell, Diane Morgan, Doug Stanhope and Adam Curtis.
Episode menu
Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe
Further details
Charlie Brooker returns for his annual review of the year and this year he's picked 2016. Which seems appropriate.
Charlie says: "If you told me at the start of the year that by October half our cultural icons would be dead, we'd have voted to leave the EU, and Donald Trump would be hovering near the White House... oh and the Bake Off wouldn't even be on BBC One anymore? I'd have been digging a bunker."
Attempting to make sense of the year's news, TV and online phenomena, Charlie will be aided and abetted in this hour long special by guest contributors including the ever insightful Philomena Cunk...
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 29th December 2016
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Charlie Brooker | Host / Presenter |
| Al Campbell | Barry Shitpeas |
| Diane Morgan | Philomena Cunk |
| Brian Cox | Self |
| Simon McCoy | Self |
| Charlie Brooker | Writer |
| Jason Hazeley | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Joel Morris | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Alan Connor | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Ben Caudell | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Dan Maier | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Lorry Powles | Director |
| Alison Marlow | Series Producer |
| Matt Hulme | Producer |
| Tom Baker | Producer |
| Annabel Jones | Executive Producer |
| Jason Boxall | Editor |
| Damon Tai | Editor |
| Phil Lepherd | Editor |
| Ros Cumberland | Production Designer |
| Jon Kassell | Director of Photography |
| Benedict Spence | Director of Photography |
Videos
Deleted Scene: The Brexit Vote
Cunk and Shitpeas talk about the Brexit Vote in this clip that was cut from the main show.
Featuring: Al Campbell (Barry Shitpeas) & Diane Morgan (Philomena Cunk).
Missing 'Meh'
Charlie Brooker talks about how everything is now a caricature.
Featuring: Charlie Brooker.
Press
Charlie Brooker battles The Canary over Corbyn jokes
Charlie Brooker has hit back in characteristic style after left-wing Corbyn conspiracy-supporting blog, The Canary, took great umbrage at his portrayal of the Labour leader in his show 2016 Wipe.
Chris York, The Huffington Post, 4th January 2017Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe review
Cynical metropolitan elitists such as myself have one thing to hold onto at the end of this abysmal year: Charlie Brooker tearing it to bleeding shreds.
Joseph Hallas, On The Box, 30th December 2016Even as TV's foremost black sky thinker, Charlie Brooker would probably have struggled to predict the turbulent, feverish and generally dispiriting events of 2016. Suffice to say that Brooker isn't short of material for this year's rewind. However, there'll be some light relief as Philomena Cunk goes head to head with grinning pop-rave professor physicist Brian Cox, and Diane Morgans media caricature gets a spin-off show immediately afterwards in Cunk On Christmas (10pm).
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 29th December 2016No one could laugh at Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe
Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe hit TV screens on Thursday night but the normally brilliantly sarcastic programme was missing one thing this year according to fans - the humour. And it was all 2016's fault. The year has been notoriously bad.
Rebecca Lewis, Metro, 29th December 2016It's almost as if everything that has happened in 2016 has been leading up to this moment.
Once again Charlie Brooker is back with his unique look back at the year and this week he looks back on the ups and downs of 2016.
Helping Charlie to make sense of the year's news, TV and online phenomena is Philomena Cunk. In her most challenging interview yet, Philomena tries to understand what it is Professor Brian Cox is actually saying.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 27th December 2016Screenwipe 2016: When is it, and how can I watch it?
Charlie Brooker's take on a year of news and television may be the most highly-anticipated yet.
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 27th December 2016