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Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe

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.

Key details

Genre
Factual
Broadcast
2006 - 2009
Channel
BBC Four
Episodes
28 (5 series), plus 1 highlights special
Features
Charlie Brooker
Writers
Charlie Brooker and David Quantick
Directors
Al Campbell
Producers
Nick Vaughan Smith, Derek McLean, John Tiffney, Zoe Tait, Kufena Coulter, Victoria Bobin, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones
Company

Based partly on the creator's Screen Burn columns in The Guardian, this show is an irreverent, authored magazine show for BBC Four in which Charlie Brooker takes a caustic look at television and occasionally shouts at it.

Capsule reviews of the week's high-and-lowlights jostle for position alongside VT reports, features exposing the confused inner workings of the TV industry, animations, and some other stuff.

The show has spawned three spin-offs: Newswipe With Charlie Brooker, which sees the presenter and critic providing a funny, thoughtful and scabrous digest of recent news events; yearly reviews such as Charlie Brooker's 2012 Wipe Out; and Weekly Wipe. An additional one-off episode, Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe, focussed solely on the world of computer games.

Additional details

Tagline
A programme all about television.
Part of

Charlie Brooker's Wipes

Production
Studio
Picture
Colour
Soundtrack
Theme tune for Screenwipe is A.M. 180 by Grandaddy. Listen

Theme tune for Newswipe is You Are Here (FortDax Remix) by Nathan Fake. Listen

Website links

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Thursday 2nd March 2006 at 10:30pm on BBC Four
Most recent repeats
  • Tuesday 3rd January 2012 at 11:20pm on BBC2 - Episode 1
  • Saturday 31st December 2011 at 11:00pm on BBC4 - Episode 1
  • Tuesday 4th January 2011 at 12:00am on BBC4 - Episode 1

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