He started out writing about TV for fun, went on to write about it for money, and now makes lots of TV shows and wins awards for them. Some day Charlie Brooker will be responsible for running all of British television, a day I look forward to as all telly will presumably be awesome, albeit [...]
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Lately, it seems that Charlie Brooker, David Mitchell and Victoria Coren are becoming broadcasting best buds. They’re all doing TV and radio shows with each other, from The Bubble to Heresy to The Alternative Election Night to So Wrong It’s Right which aired earlier this week on Radio 4. This, of course, is a very [...]
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The ALL! NEW! televised election debates kick off tonight on ITV1 with Alastair Stewart tackling our three main party leaders over their slightly pie in the sky manifestos. However, a more important debate occurs straight afterwards on Channel 4, as Charlie Brooker returns with a new series of telly debate/quiz show You Have Been Watching. [...]
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Charlie Brooker’s been rather busy over the past couple of years, what with being on the Beeb’s list of top-quality talent, whilst also doing several things for Channel 4, making a whole heap of programmes, writing his columns and books and spending lots of time on Twitter. The chances of someone trying to make him [...]
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BBC Four’s seasons are some of my favourite telly events. It’s not that every season interests me in the same way, but I love the diversity of them. The new Electric Revolution season is one of the more interesting, with its focus on gizmos and gadgetry. Last night, Simon Armitage gave us an interesting, if [...]
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This man has a new show starting tonight. This is therefore the most important televisual event since, well, last night’s Torchwood and The Supersizers…Eat. You Have Been Watching is apparently a hybrid of quiz, chat, features and review, with a guest panel of the famous each week. Fortunately it’s the more interesting Richard Herring (who’s [...]
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You may have noticed that there hasn’t been much of note on the tellybox over the last few days, save our usual favourites. Even the Dancing on Ice didn’t muster up much excitement round here, mainly due to the crushing inevitability of a Ray fucking Quinn victory. However, tonight is the most exciting telly night [...]
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