The Screenwipe Guide to Television

MAGAZINE PROGRAMME: Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
On: BBC 4 (9)
Date: Wednesday 19th December 2007 (starting in 9 days)
Time: 22:35 to 23:05 (30 minutes long)

New Year Special.
Charlie Brooker goes on a razor sharp rant through TV's best and worst offerings of 2007, taking no prisoners as he bids farewell to the year with suitably irreverent commentary.
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Looking forward to it. Expect phone scandals, bonkers news coverage, "Biggest C**ks and Shec**ks in advertising of 2007".

Promo now airing with Charlie in a Victorian street set sprinkling fake snow on his head "in an attempt to look more Christmassy".

Can't wait for this Christmas Special.

What - fake snow! I thought the BBC had pledged to abolish all the fakery!

I think that's his message.

Guess I'm the singular tinny voice of dissident when I say I really don't like Charlie at all. Some of his points are valid but there's something intensely smarmy and... I don't know, gratingly dogmatic and even childish about him, kinda like Jeremy Clarkson.

And he isn't as funny as he figures, the potato faced goit. That's most likely the writers fault I'll concede but I do feel like cracking a large bass trout around his deathmask of a face when he utters like a man taken from the 1970's and spat out in this brave new bewildering world of TV (sounds familiar, couldn't say who thats like...) "It's not like how I remember!" he wails, others too join in his caterwauling forgetting conveniently that how they remember it isn't how it was either.

Never felt that for Victor Lewis-Smith, he was actually funny and got a point across without making it sound like some cynical dirge on how TV is now as one faceless void in comparison to some idealised version locked somewhere only in the confines of his very own noodle but I'll digress, Charlie Brooker's not as brilliant as assumed here. Could have just said "He's a bit ****, inn'e?" but where's the flair in that?

hurrah! i am not alone then!

Now on BBC4.

Bollocks! I completely forgot it was on!

It's one of those programmes I always intend to watch but forget completely about it whe the time comes.

When's it repeated?

..and very amusing it was too!

I did hear the 'c' word go out unbleeped though, despite it being bleeped elsewhere in the same show. I'm not one to get offended, but a slight oversight perhaps?

Nice to finally see Barry Sh!tpeas in person.