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The genius that is Charlie Brooker
Posted on April 9th, 2009 No commentsIf you have Freeview, Satellite or Cable you’ll get access to BBC Four, which has to be one of the most deadly dull of channels ever to be invented on the face of the planet. Strange intellectual documentaries, television shows that don’t even make it to BBC Three for goodness’ sake, and Charlie Brooker.
Charlie has had two series on BBC Four of note - the first, Screenwipe, takes a look at various topics each week (for example, one week he covered advertising, and so on. One of the best he did was about the News). Here’s the first few minutes of it.
As a bit of a television nerd, it was fantastic to watch, even if just for the old style BBC News titles changed to say Screenwipe. But watch the whole thing and you’ll understand why Charlie’s fantastic and wasted in the hinterlands of BBC Four.
His new show has gone one better - Newswipe is your guide to the news, aimed at people who can’t be arsed to watch it every day and basically rips news presenters, presentation, and subjects to bits.
Some of the things he’s put on the show are uncomfortable viewing and scarily accurate. Like the expert who said in the wake of any big shooting story there will usually be another two or three copy cats, so the best thing any news channel could do when something like this happens is to ignore it, or give it the most uninteresting and minimal coverage possible. Of course, our media’s incapable of doing that and made a big deal out of the recent shooting in Germany, which sadly led to more shootings in America shortly afterwards.
But anyway … unfortunately you’ve missed the first three episodes of Newswipe, but they’ll probably be somewhere on iPlayer or Youtube if you’re determined to find them. Or even watch them on BBC Four - we might even double the number of viewers the channel gets as a whole as a result.
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