Charlie Brooker's Newswipe

Great he picked up on that! Who'd ever thought you'd hear Matlis telling a Frankie Boyle joke to the Director General?

I saw that interview go out originally and thought 'I bet they wanted to laugh.' It reminded me of a documentary where Jonathan Powell was discussing whether a drama should use the see you next Tuesday word in a drama. Very bizarre!

I watched a couple of minutes of Paul Ross last night as well. Awful! Why bother having a fake book prop and then not read from it? Well I suppose you couldn't call the show Paul Ross's Autocue Of Horror.

Had you not seen that before, it was all round the net the day after including this re-edit:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cIxy9ce5aCI

Paul Ross is just one of these presenters who should carry an 'Irritant' warning label.

Brooker was absolutely spot on once again last night.

And he will just do any old piece of tat for the money. I can't stand him!

Good to have you back Mr Brooker, but tis a pity the muppet that writes the clips credit back box astons has not been sacked between last series and this...

Last nights bad research/plain lazy to check errors...
1) The Monty Python offence clip should have been credited
- Python (Monty) productions. The BBC do not own the copyright to the series anymore after the pythons brought them for a firesale price back in the early 80's

2) The Day Today was never on BBC 1 - as credited.

Also, can someone at Endemol get Sky+ in at headquarters, to try and improve the picture quality of the clips? Dubbing footage off VHS does not look very professional.
In the US The Daily Show/Colbert Report uses around 4 TIVO's to record off air footage from the news channels, for re-broadcast the next evening. A similar production value on Screenwipe wouldn't go a miss.

Brilliant show last night - at last someone on the BBC talking sense about the whole Sachs thing.

Never really caught more than the odd episode in the past - always been one of those shows I intended to watch, but forgot about.

I have given up trying to remember when it's on and only watch it on iplayer now.

IMO one of the best, particularly the Britannia High "I'm a c$%t" song.

It was a particularly wonderful look at some of the more amusing parts of TV - loved the newspapers "rant" and the 'Where's The Paper?' song. Genius.

I think there's a bit of a difference between recording a few news channels for 24 hours and recording every channel and show that they may want to cover for a whole 12 months.

Anyway, I thought it was something of a stylistic choice on the part of the programme rather than just getting poor quality clips.

It's deliberate, in the early days of Screenwipe they used to have a camera angled towards the TV stylee.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gSa3W06gQZk
(see 6:22)

The clips don't look as bad as VHS to me. I suspedted long play DVD recordings from a PAL source. But I may be wrong.