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I don't think I've ever actually mentioned the brilliance of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, as broadcast on the characteristically tolerable BBC Four. It's a show about television and it happens to be thoroughly enlightening, hilarious and also exposes all the hidden facets of television production. Thankfully, you can watch every episode on youtube, with each show broken into three bite sized chunks. The first episode of Season One is here. You can find the rest of the shows by searching youtube using the following codes. For example - S1E1P1 is Season One, Episode One, Part One. They get better as the series go on. Essential viewing for anyone with an interest in visual media or television! |
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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 03:43:00 AM » |
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Genius! Star Quality in particular is probably the best thing I have ever seen.
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2008, 03:44:00 AM » |
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I think that is mentioned in S1E1P1.
The later seasons are much better.
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2008, 03:53:09 AM » |
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It's part 3 of episode 1, actually. I just started watching them.
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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2008, 11:20:05 AM » |
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Charlie Brooker is a god. A funny, funny god. I love pretty much anything he writes. He's the best columnist in the Guardian by far, Screenwipe is amazing, and apparently he was rather amazing when he was a games journalist too.
My housemate also finds him strangely attractive.
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« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2008, 08:08:58 AM » |
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I would also like to throw my support behind Brooker (not that it counts for much.) Screenwipe is actually one of the few things I watch on television. It is kind of strange that the people most likely to watch a media review show are the very people who don't like all that much on television.
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« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2008, 04:29:54 AM » |
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I've been watching clips of this for the past hour. I have to be quiet because the house is sleeping but hot shit is this ever funny.
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[22:40] Quietus: Do you know what I love?
[22:40] fat andy: Me!
[22:40] Quietus: Nah actually it's radical left wing politics and black metal
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« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2008, 07:44:31 AM » |
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Man, I just spent a whole hour too watching this show. I have to go to sleep and then wake up in 4 hours to star my new job, thanks a lot guys.
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« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2008, 07:45:47 AM » |
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I've been watching this show for three hours at work. Slow sundays rule.
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« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2008, 08:08:45 AM » |
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Charlie Brooker is great.
Also see if you can find Cruelty Zoo, a cartoon he did for PC Zone magazine that resulted in an issue being pulled from the shelves of a major newsagents across the UK.
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Ptommydski
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« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2009, 02:55:00 PM » |
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Charlie Brooker's Newswipe. Less funny, more informative. Still good television.
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« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2009, 05:35:01 PM » |
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Second episode was out just a few hours ago, but BBC4 hates foreigners. Does anyone know of a good proxy service that goes through Britain?
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« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2009, 12:41:48 PM » |
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Oh I love these programs.
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« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2009, 01:06:38 PM » |
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I think the third episode wasn't as good as the others, but it ended perfectly.
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« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2009, 11:48:19 AM » |
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Was that the one with the huge documentary clip at the end? I liked that one.
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« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2009, 05:48:56 PM » |
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Yeah, the third one wasn't really as good as the first 2 but the ending was great.
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« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2009, 07:25:10 PM » |
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He now talks about video games. I just found these on YouTube and I am excited to watch them! |
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« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2009, 07:27:42 PM » |
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tommydski doppelganger at 2:32!
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« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2009, 10:26:45 PM » |
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I feel so lucky to live in a country that doesn't have a show called "Baby Mind Reader"
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« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2009, 01:19:00 PM » |
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I feel so lucky to live in a country that doesn't have a show called "Baby Mind Reader"
You know I watched the special US episode of ScreenWipe and I think we're even  Trapped in the closet? Screenwipe brilliant. NewsWipe, so cynically brilliant. GamesWipe... they need to make more! Charlie brooker also has a comedy panel type show called "You have been watching"It's had me in stitches quite often, some is very UK related though. |
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« Reply #20 on: November 24, 2009, 08:17:03 AM » |
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I'm Australlliiiaaaannnnnn
(and for what it's worth we do have quite a lot of awful television indeed... but probably nothing as bad as baby motherfucking mind fucking reader fuck)
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« Reply #21 on: November 24, 2009, 08:59:45 AM » |
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Baby Mindreader is at least better than Baby Mindfucker.
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« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2009, 09:00:07 AM » |
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Though, to be honest, I'd totally watch that.
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« Reply #23 on: November 26, 2009, 04:54:37 PM » |
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Oh god that's terrible. I enjoy Brooker as a critic, but he's failed spectacularly at making television (Dead Set being a notable low point). With You Have Been Watching he tries to lampoon the generic panel game format, but that doesn't work when you've made a boring generic panel game. It's not like his criticism programmes are well structured or anything, they're very repetitive, but they hold up because his bile spewing is a lot of fun. |
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« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2009, 01:20:27 AM » |
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I am not British, many of the references go right over my head. But I can't stop watching.
Curse you, Screenwipe, curse you.
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« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2009, 06:34:16 PM » |
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Oh god that's terrible. I enjoy Brooker as a critic, but he's failed spectacularly at making television Great - Screenwipe, Newswipe, Gameswipe Average - Dead Set, Nathan Barley Bad - You Have Been Watching, TV Go Home |
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« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2009, 06:45:08 PM » |
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I had genuinely forgotten his involvement in Nathan Barley, which I did like. Perhaps he just hasn't worked with collaborators that suited him with his other projects. And I do really enjoy Screenwipe and Newswipe but I don't think they're particularly well made television, they just contain very entertaining criticism (for the most part). Which works great for them, but it isn't something transferable to a programme that relies on something other than criticism.
And seriously, Dead Set average?
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« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2009, 10:34:02 PM » |
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It was alright.
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« Reply #28 on: December 16, 2009, 10:46:15 AM » |
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I thought Dead Set was aces. I don't mind you have been watching, but only when Josie Long was involved.
I know someone who went one a date with him. Apparently it was good.
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« Reply #29 on: December 16, 2009, 05:51:33 PM » |
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What happened in the last episode of Dead Set ? I missed it because I forgot it was on, but I'm not cut up enough about it to download it or go get the D.V.D.
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« Reply #30 on: January 19, 2010, 10:20:04 AM » |
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« Reply #31 on: January 19, 2010, 07:48:32 PM » |
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It's not bad. Tim Key still badly needs to fuck right off though.
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« Reply #32 on: January 27, 2010, 03:16:26 PM » |
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This is the sort of fast paced timing I need for my show.
Awesome.
Really. So very nice. The little scrambled static cuts between segments in the first episode? Nice.
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« Reply #33 on: January 27, 2010, 06:39:56 PM » |
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It's not bad. Tim Key still badly needs to fuck right off though.
This is the truest thing that has ever been said. |
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« Reply #34 on: January 27, 2010, 07:38:56 PM » |
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I'm sure he could get anyone he wanted to do a short segment, why oh why oh why does he pick him? Brings the tone down.
Tonight episode: Ace.
"Tit-a-ma-boob" *snickers*
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« Reply #35 on: February 01, 2010, 07:39:45 PM » |
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i have, over the last few months, exhausted just about every episode of screenwipe/newswipe on youtube, and also bought two of charlie brooker's books ("screen burn" and "the hell of it all"). not sure how i'd never heard of him before, but the guy is seriously my fucking hero now!
glad to see there's others who appreciate his humour. when i waxed lyrical about his work to my mates, they revealed themselves to be a load of pussies who didn't like "how harsh he is" and his "over-critical nature." the fucks.
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« Reply #36 on: February 03, 2010, 10:18:25 AM » |
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I've been a huge fan of Brooker. His game show "You Have Been Watching" was pretty good too, on Channel 4.
Newswipe's been good this series, although I've never quite liked Newswipe it's proven me wrong. Just want them to commission a series of Gameswipe!
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