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    Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe

    By Will last year, mid-October Leave a comment on this post

    Nothing to do with cricket but worthy of mention. Charlie Brooker has a weekly rant at the ridiculously vacuous world of television and celebrity, and damn fine it is too. I’m all for sarcasm and cynicism, especially when it pokes fun at TV’s crapness.

    I happened to see a man being chased by a hoody wielding a fishing net the other day. Even for Shepherds Bush, this was out of the ordinary…until I saw it on Brooker’s show. Curiously, having realised they film a lot of it in the same building in which we used to work, I can now see they do a lot of sketches in the lifts, balconies and bar of the Shepherds Building (which is in some way rather ironic, considering his distaste for tacky television…)

    Anyway, it’s on BBC Four and worth a gander I reckons.

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    3 Responses to “Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe”

  • Marcus wrote:
    October 13th, 2007 at 1.01 am

    “Crapness” Will? If you’re going to be crass, can’t you at least be correct about it? :)

  • Reverse Swing wrote:
    October 13th, 2007 at 9.20 am

    He also does an article in the Guardian every Saturday covering the same ground - often has me laughing out loud.

  • Will wrote:
    October 14th, 2007 at 10.24 am

    I like that word crapness. It’s not a proper word of course…but then I’m all for making up new ones!

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