Newswipe
A new series started last night. I know he has his detractors, but Charlie Brooker consistently names and shames the fuckwits and lovingly points out the idiotic and manipulating methods of the UK's TV industry.

Refreshing
9/10
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:37, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Charlie Brooker detractors have no place here.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:38, Reply)

Man, he sold out with that quiz show bollix.
That was bad. That made me weep for the voice of satire that he was.

Screenwipe and Newswipe are fortunately good.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:55, Reply)

Yeah, the quiz show was a bit iffy
but hell, he has a few lives, built up by all the other good stuff he's done. I can forgive him. Dead Set was rather good as well.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:58, Reply)

If you praise Charlie Brooker on /links
then loads of /links people get bolshy and yap about him being overrated and crap. I put this down to them having a much lower threshold of entertainment value since they all spend most of their time on YouTube.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:00, Reply)

see above
I think he is GRATE.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

I think another half point should
be awarded for Brookers manic giggle
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

Bizarrely
I emailed him the other day after i had read that he used to write for the short lived, Viz style comic, Oink. It must have been out circa 1986/7, and I vividly remember a section of fake TV listings, very similar to the brilliant TVGoHome. The Oink listings have stayed in my mind all that time, so when i read about his Oink work I put 2 and 2 together and wanted clarification. So I emailed him and shortly thereafter he mailed me back to confirm it was in fact him who wrote the Oink listings.

Just wish I could find them online somewhere...
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:46, Reply)

I still have the Oink annual somewhere
and most of the orignal comics :0)
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Good man.
Have a check through for any TV listings, take a mobile phone pic and gaz me them, for lifelong gratitude.!

In the intervening years, and with TvGoHome to compare them to, they will probably be a bit rubbish.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:27, Reply)