Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - BBC4 Factual - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
Genre
Broadcast
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Episodes
28 (5 series), plus 1 highlights special
Features
Writers
Charlie Brooker and David Quantick
Directors
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.
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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
- Charlie Brooker's Guardian Articles
An archive of the columns Brooker has written for The Guardian - the topics discussed in many of these articles have also appeared in Screenwipe. - IMDb
- Wikipedia
Broadcast details
First broadcast
Thursday 2nd March 2006 at 10:30pm on BBC Four
Most recent repeats