This is a weird one. I mean really, who’s next? Norman Tebbit and Kate Thornton? Paddy McGuiness and Sister Wendy Beckett? But then maybe it’s only weird if you’re totally sold on Brooker’s onscreen/in-print persona. The very definition of ‘mercilessly caustic bastard’ Brooker has cornered the market in ego-ripping bullshit-stripping criticism that penetrates the brain like a tickly laser of misanthropy. [...]
June 10, 2010 | Posted in
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After cleaning up at the RTS awards with his superlative ‘Screenwipe’, Charlie Brooker is back with his new BBC4 prog focussing purely on News. Making it’s debut last night and imaginatively entitled ‘Newswipe’, it ambitiously aims to give you a better idea of what the news actually is while critiquing all its forms. There were some rubbish [...]
March 26, 2009 | Posted in
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The critic’s critic and meeeja c*nthunter Charlie Brooker is back and we’re already into the third week of his superlative new ‘Screenwipe’ series on BBC4. Last week he had a pop at advertising, which is waaaay too soft a target for a man of his nefarious talents, so here’s the first episode for your delectation. Best watch it [...]
December 1, 2008 | Posted in
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