Screenwipe is BBC4's bilious, X-rated alternative to Harry Hill's TV Burp, a digest of current television via one man's warped sensibility. Brooker returns to our screens with his reputation bolstered by Dead Set, the satirical zombie shocker he recently penned for E4. Now, though, the gamekeeper can return to poaching.

It's been far too long, but finally Brooker, the master of dissecting current trends in television, returns for a new series. Expect the Ross/Brand saga, the economic meltdown, and costume dramas to come under Brooker's acerbic gaze.

Radio Times Blog Review

Watching Brooker administer corporal punishment to the stupidities and excesses of today's television can be a strange experience - mainly because the medium he is savaging has allowed him to do such a thing.

Review of Screenwipe Special

This disassembling of TV land made for fascinating AND hilarious viewing. How often do I get to write that? It showed us all just how much money goes into a TV show... from a 3 hour shoot for a 3 second segment of Brooker falling off a log, to seeing how creative an edit can really be.

Screenwipe USA Review

Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe started out with a short pilot run earlier in the year, which was watchable but somewhat confused. Thankfully, between that and the more recent five-week series, many of the earlier problems have clearly been addressed and largely ironed out.

Blog Review

Ah, Charlie Brooker. Anyone with any sense and love of TV reads his Guardian Screen Burn column every Saturday. It's usually the funniest thing you'll read that week. However, his Screen Wipe review show, which pretty much translates Screen Burn into pictures, hasn't been so compelling.

Off The Telly Review

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.