Un Zievereir RE: Screenwipe, Weekly wipe, Newswipe, Annual Wipe, etc. Continuing on from his previously written output including the excellent "TV go home", Charlie Brooker relentlessly spews forth this highly informative critique of popular television and news shows from his couch. His virile attacks on TV's often pitiful broadcasts are well written and so appear as much off the cuff as they do scripted.He is cutting and imaginative. At times Brooker is spiteful and closed minded, overly and overtly moralistic, but always excellently sharp in his powers of observation. However, he never quite goes beyond to lambast the serious and real underlying limitations and bias of the media. Alas, he is still part of the media set which he tries to attack. Assumedly, his family and friends are probably also corporate media members and disciples. His consistent attempts to analyze and mock the media are commendable and certainly entertaining. Although revealing his rational and intellectual limitations, and the unfortunate constraints of his world, these "Wipes" do work very well and show Mr. Brooker to be an intelligent, observant mind.Amongst the humourous and educational monologues there is also a high quality of featured guest talent such as Morgana Robinson, Barry Shitpeas, Philomena Clunk, Doug Stanhope, and the unimitable Tim Key. David Firth's brief additional animated sections are also delightful.

Xanthe Young The title made me sound sad, now i'm going to make myself sound sadder still. I saw my first episode of screenwipe halfway through series 4. I had just finished watching QI on BBC4, i was going to turn it off when Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe started and i couldn't move I just sat and watched it through to the end completely captivated my only movement being when i laughed- most of the time then. After that i have watched it religiously and i suggest everyone else does the same.When series five came out last week i didn't even want to miss the advert break that came before it. My debating club finished at ten and i ran home to be back in time to watch it at the proper time. The next day i tuned into i-player and watched it again, i watched it another 4 times before the next episode came out yesterday.If a program can be so good as to captivate me like that and turn me into some mad obsessive it surely has to be worth a try. Watch it! I don't think i need to say anymore.

BJJManchester The journo/writer-performer Charlie Brooker lifts the lid on his opinions of modern day TV,both in the UK and US.His savagely witty criticisms in the Guardian Newspaper have by and large,been successfully adapted to this digital TV programme.Brooker's clever,bitterly acerbic,imaginative,often hilarious critiques are further helped by breathlessly quick pacing and editing.He actually does like some TV programmes(most notably THE WIRE,shamefully neglected by terrestrial TV in the UK),but inevitably his most entertaining rants are at TV shows he hates(reality shows,daytime programming,etc.)which are gleefully attacked with rottweiller-like insane relish.Brooker's eternally stylish wordplay is sometimes over-balanced by frequent use of profanities which,though occasionally funny,sometimes go too far and take the reviews/sketches/interviews out of context and defeat the object at hand.Charlie's unique brand of sophisticated scatology will certainly not be for the easily offended,but often gloriously entertaining for those who don't mind whatever he says.Rating:7 and a half out of 10.

Partha Banerjee This is truly one of the most acute and sophisticated analysis of current tele-tat that we are all being subjected to on a daily basis. Brooker does not just articulately demolish some of these visual atrocities on our regular prime-time diets but he also manages to point us in the right direction. His occasional hints towards the greatness of some of the yester-years television feasts are as much part of the programme as the infectious comedy portrayals of the all the things that are wrong on that virtual world on the other side of screen.I commend Brooker's bold attempt for a fabulous and yet hard hitting message-worthy programme and hopefully, it keeps us all more in touch with our sarcastic and bitter side, with many more of its episodes.Sheer genius from the BBC.