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Netflix announces new Wipe-style show

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Josh
Saw this and thought it'd be interesting to mention:



Set to feature Tracey Ullman, Lisa Kudrow, Samuel L. Jackson and Diane Morgan (albeit not as Philomena Cunk) amongst others.
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Brekkie
Guess this is Antiviral Wipe Part 2 then.
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iloveTV1
An extremely subtle title.

14 days later

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Inspector Sands
Here's more details about Death to 2020
https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/51488/1/watch-the-trailer-for-charlie-brooker-mockumentary-death-to-2020-netflix

And a trailer:
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gottago
That Quibi line at the end really made me laugh. Can't wait for this, hope it will be just as good, if not better, than Antiviral Wipe.
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davidhorman
That one's geoblocked for me, but this one isn't:

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Inspector Sands
Going by the trailer and that article it's not going to be like anything else he's done before. This isn't going to be a 'Wipe'
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Isonstine Founding member
I sense this is going to be a bit like Charlie Brooker meets Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet - which is in no way a bad thing!
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Brekkie
Seems this is a rare miss for Charlie Brooker.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/death-to-2020-reviews-netflix-charlie-brooker-b1779257.html
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gottago
I'm trying to watch this now and it's awful. Weirdly it feels like all the elements are there but something is so off. It might be as simple as the voiceover not being right for the script, if it was Charlie doing it in the same style as Screenwipe that might have helped.

It reminds me of A Touch of Cloth which I loathed and was packed with lame jokes but there were a lot of fans of it and there seems to be a lot of love for this online outside of the professional reviews.
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Brekkie
Antiviral Wipe getting a repeat now on BBC2 which is probably a better use of your time.
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dbl
Antiviral Wipe getting a repeat now on BBC2 which is probably a better use of your time.

Sadly I agree.

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