Screenwipe is a television programme about television programmes; the cost, the surprising amount of work and bureaucracy involved, how programmes are selected for broadcast and (usually scathing) analysis of specific programmes and genres. He also talks about something positive in each episode too, and often branches out into other forms of media and it's effects on society.
It's also very, very funny.
The 5th series started a few weeks ago, but since it's on BBC4 I always forget to watch it. Thankfully you can watch every episode on the internet, helpfully compiled into playlists for each series.
I've handily embedded the first part of episode 1 here
And you can watch the rest (including previous series) from
here.
Gameswipe is a new series from Brooker that is basically Screenwipe but with video games rather than TV.
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And I see Ashleyne is still cropping up in items. We all know what your angle is there, Charlie.
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This week's "writer's special" was dreadful; I had to stop watching after fifteen minutes. I can see it appealing to a select audience of media nerds, but not what I see as the typical Screenwipe crowd. It wasn't Screenwipe. It wasn't even funny. It was Charlie Brooker Talks To: Television Writers. The writers interviewed were painfully dull-witted. I was very disappointed in Lineham, who seems to be a hack. I'll generously put that down to him being more suited to pen and paper, than chair and camera.
Your interview program is in trouble when Russel T. Fucking Davies is the only interviewee preventing your audience from nodding off.
Just a quick question: Does anyone find the poetry section at all funny? I find it dull.
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I don't get it at all, but I didn't get the little animations that were in previous seasons either; the rest of the show is still hilarious, though.
This totally slipped under my radar, so thanks to the OP for bringing it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaxlK9ByRHE
No, I don't like Tim Keye's poetry, and no, I don't like the ex-celebrity nostalgia spots. I watch Screenwipe for Brooker - and the Screenwipe staff when more bodies are needed onscreen. Everything else is a diversion. I think Keye's poetry would be funny if he got a comedian to tell him when to stop. In the advertising episode, Keye's punchline should have been "So... they're children. They're both children... that's the twist", but his poem continues for what seems like another minute. He went past his opportunity to deliver a funny finishing line, and his poem trundles on to an embarrassing fart at the end.
Did anyone notice that they got a new guy on the production staff this season? He was used in more gags than old favourite Barry Shitpeas, right from episode one. My, they broke him in quickly.
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I've really enjoyed the first part. Yes, it's pure matiness but I'm in the grove, I enjoy hearing creative people talking about the experience of being creative.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
Exactly. I don't think Brooker would be doing this show if he hated TV.
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This is quite possibly the most wrong thing I've ever read, Father Ted and Black Books were both classics, the IT Crowd isn't too bad eirther.
I think it was more to do with the line where he says 'I look for funny stuff on the TV and internet and then put it in my sitcom', followed by a clip of an exact replica of the Guy Goma thing on the IT Crowd.
I'd forgotten Mr Noseybonk.
EDIT: Also, horrifying children's TV puppet show is horrifying.
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I didn't particularly enjoy the writers episode though - I'm not a fan of Father Ted and all of those obvious humour type shows, but the guy that writes them definitely seems daft enough. Similarly with the others, their own style reflected their tv shows. Though most just oozed "tortured artiste", so I'm glad the shows gone back to ripping it out of things instead of pampering to people's smugness.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gSa3W06gQZk
Nightmares. I will have them.
He's doing a new show (Newswipe), will be broadcast soon, picking apart media bias etc.
Bad news breeds more bad news?
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Screenwipe and Newswipe need to be required viewing for anybody looking to work in print or television.
This seems like a more accurate statement. This show has taught me so much about television and the fact that it is funny is just a bonus.