How TV Ruined Your Life
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two
- 2011
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Charlie Brooker attempts to explain where it all went wrong and just how wildly the TV and movie ideal differs from life's grim reality. Stars Charlie Brooker, Kevin Eldon and Liz May Brice.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 3 - Aspiration
From Dallas to Grand Designs, TV continually rubs desirable lifestyles in your face, making you feel inadequate in the process. Warning: contains Sophie Dahl and coffins.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 8th February 2011
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Charlie Brooker | Host / Presenter |
| Liz May Brice | Ensemble Actor |
| Belinda Stewart-Wilson | Ensemble Actor |
| Lucy Thackeray | Ensemble Actor |
| Roger Sloman | Ensemble Actor |
| Joseph Coombes | Ensemble Actor |
| Sarah Darlington | Ensemble Actor |
| Patrick Martin | Ensemble Actor |
| Imran Yusuf (as Imran Yusef) | Ensemble Actor |
| Charlie Brooker | Writer |
| Jason Hazeley | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Joel Morris | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Dan Maier | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Al Campbell | Director |
| Christian Watt | Director |
| Nick Vaughan Smith (as Nick Vaughan-Smith) | Producer |
| Christian Watt | Producer |
| Annabel Jones | Executive Producer |
| Damon Tai | Editor |
| Jason Boxall | Editor |
| Jamie Shemeld | Editor |
| Charlotte Pearson | Production Designer |
Video
The Galaxy Of Fame
Charlie Brooker looks at the complex galaxy of celebrities and examines why we both love and hate the most famous people on the universe.
Featuring: Charlie Brooker.
Press
So this is the time to point out to the furiously shouting Charlie that he himself is part of the entertainment on the box and that it therefore can't be all bad. He has a way of putting things that makes a funfair out of the apocalypse.
Clive James, The Telegraph, 13th April 2013