Finally a comprehensive collection of Charlie Brooker's hilarious Guardian Guide ... more
television column "Screen Burn". Possibly the angriest man in the world Brooker (creator of the cult website TVGoHome) rips into his targets with merciless glee and an i...
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For the past four years Charlie Brooker has written a television column for the Guardian. ... more
This is a collection of his best pieces. Publication will coincide with a new four part Channel 4 Chris Morris/Charlie Brooker special. Huge advertising support from the Guardian.
Advantages: Superb analytical and satirical programming Disadvantages: Make more of them!
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the mind of CharlieBrooker, and welcome to his spin-off of his successful cult critique show "Screenwipe"; "Newswipe" - but instead solely focusing on the world of news and current affairs. Something the show's predecessor skimmed over but never tore into as deliciously as this.
First aired in March this year on BBC Four, it's a fresh new programme that has been pleasantly received. Its six episodes have reached five so far (at the time of the original review), each one as superb as the last. It's main aim is to expose, satirise and emphasise the impact that rolling news channels have on our lives. From the obvious role of informing us of major news stories, to the apparent recruiting megalomaniacs that flounder on American news networks.
Episode one took the ongoing saga that is the global ...
Advantages: A good summary of the news, very funny and smart Disadvantages: Not a long enough series!
CharlieBrooker is a British comedian, columnist and writer known for his, often surreal and rather sweary, satirical take on modern media. Aside from his own programmes such as Screenwipe and his regular contributions to The Guardian, Brooker has also been involved in the writing of some excellent comedy shows such as Nathan Barley, The Eleven O Clock Show and the very controversial Brass Eye Paedophile Special.
Newswipe sees Charlie (short for Charlton) turn his sharp wit on the news 'circus'. As a fan of Screenwipe and as someone who is often left feeling confused by TV news broadcasts, I was really looking forward to seeing Brooker's take on it; I was not disappointed. He seems to share my confusion at the myriad tortured metaphors and pointless graphical representations that seem to make up bulletins. His look at the treatment ...
Advantages: Writing Style, Comedy, Looking at the past TV, Well written Disadvantages: May offened....some
With a ruthless literary assault on almost anything you may expect Dawn Of The Dumb to be a rather pointless series of rants by the Guardian writer CharlieBrooker from his columns in the paper. Yet you would have assumed wrong as this fantastically hilarious collection of articles written by Brooker seethes away with critical bitterness that would put even the sharpest tongued of people to shame. Published as a collection of articles in 2007 the actual articles date back from November 2004 to July 2007 broken in to 12 individual chapters based around TV shows and other writing on a vast array of subjects (split pretty evenly into TV for 50% and other subjects for 50% of the book).
In recent years Brooker has started appearing on TV with shows like Screenwipe, Gameswipe and Newswipe on BBC4 all following in the same sort of vein as ...
