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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.

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Series 1, Episode 1

In the first episode of Screenwipe, Charlie Brooker admits he is probably well on the way to being the worst TV presenter audiences have ever seen. He decides to discover what a TV presenter is anyway.

Broadcast details

Date
Thursday 2nd March 2006
Time
10:30pm
Channel
BBC Four
Length
30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Charlie Brooker Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Robert Popper Self
Writing team
Charlie Brooker Writer
Production team
Al Campbell Director
Derek McLean Series Producer
Charlie Brooker Executive Producer
Michael Lewis (as Michael 'Gee' Lewis) Editor
Sam Hardy Director of Photography
Jo Kay Production Manager

Press

Off The Telly Review (Link expired)

Brooker, self-confessed rubbish presenter, seems to have the attention span of a gnat. Given a full half-hour to really get going on ridiculous text-message competitions designed to grab the viewer's money, the lamentable nature of daytime TV and the dozen or so other topics he selected just for the first episode, he still produces more or less the same few hundred words he'd use in Screen Burn.

Rob Buckley, Off The Telly, 3rd March 2006

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