Charlie Brooker's newswipe

[upsidedownwalrus]

Flatmate said to me the other day "Can you imagine anything more depressing than looking forward to a TV programme?"

I said, yes, but Charlie Brooker's newswipe is starting sometime soon. I'm looking forward to that.

Yes, he said, and carried on with the washing up.

Quiet round your way, is it?

 

[Gingerman]

Dermot Murnaghan's "Economic Cycle" laughably awfull

 

[Sadken]

Was it any good?

 

[The Groke]

What was wrong with his old swipe?

 

[8den]

Was it any good?

Well it ain't replacing the daily show as my favourite news satire yet.

Really just goes to show the difference in budget and resources between the BBC and comedy central.

 

[mrsfran]

Was it any good?

I think you'll like it. I did.

 

[Gingerman]

I think you'll like it. I did.

I though it were great,loved the bit at the end with the psychiatrist commenting on the German mass shootings.

 

[Cid]

Just watched it on iPlayer, 'twas good, not amazing, but good if a little depressing for being locked away on BBC4 where nobody who isn't a Brooker fan is likely to watch it.

Well this is kind of my point; at the start he seemed to be aiming for the simple explanation and satirical unwrapping (which he did very well), but he's broadcasting on BBC4, where I imagine most viewers are quite aware of what quantative easing is and what caused the recession. It's a prog looking for a wider audience than it gets basically, that first part didn't really tell me anything new... The comments on murder cases towards the end were interesting though, and it was well put together.

 

[8den]

Well this is kind of my point; at the start he seemed to be aiming for the simple explanation and satirical unwrapping (which he did very well), but he's broadcasting on BBC4, where I imagine most viewers are quite aware of what quantative easing is and what caused the recession. It's a prog looking for a wider audience than it gets basically, that first part didn't really tell me anything new... The comments on murder cases towards the end were interesting though, and it was well put together.

See what annoyed me is Davis just rehashed the Nat West 3 bit from his book. I don't really want to see regurgitated bits from a book I read nearly a year ago. It's supposed to be a news show.

 

[kyser_soze]

Well this is kind of my point; at the start he seemed to be aiming for the simple explanation and satirical unwrapping (which he did very well), but he's broadcasting on BBC4, where I imagine most viewers are quite aware of what quantative easing is and what caused the recession. It's a prog looking for a wider audience than it gets basically, that first part didn't really tell me anything new... The comments on murder cases towards the end were interesting though, and it was well put together.

The BBC use BBC3&4 as test beds for shows tho - there's also the question of increasing share for the two baby stations too; so this may well stay where it is, or move to BBC2 (altho I suspect that Brooker wouldn't be prepared to compromise on the content which may make such a move impossible).

Didn't see it unfortunately, so I'll be torrenting/iplayering this tonight...

 

[mrsfran]

I thought showing the spin which was put on the 3 British people involved with the Enron scandal was very interesting.

 

[Sadken]

Cheers, looking forward to it.

 

[treelover]

I thiought it was great and having Nick Davies on was a bonus, he is now the 'journo with the integrity' now that sadly the Pilge has started endorsing 'the resistance'

tho it did become a bit like TDT

 

[William of Walworth]

Bollox, forgot about it and missed it, will have to see it on iPlayer.

 

[joustmaster]

I thiought it was great and having Nick Davies on was a bonus, he is now the 'journo with the integrity' now that sadly the Pilge has started endorsing 'the resistance'

tho it did become a bit like TDT

thats like some magical code

What is:
The Pilge
the resistance
TDT

 

[belboid]

John Pilger.
People fighting back against the USUK occupation of Iraq (treelover's gone pro-occupation now).
The Day Today.

 

[treelover]

Oops, sorry, The Pilge: John Pilger, the 'resistance' read the Marhdi army, the Insurgents in Iraq, possibly the Taliban, TDT: Chris Morris's 'The Day Today'

 

[joustmaster]

thanks

this is why i need a program like this to explain all the stuff i have missed the point of

 

[DaRealSpoon]

I think Brooker was a writer on the day today and brass eye so that kind of makes sense.

I thought it was brilliant, always like brooker though.

More of this kind of thing

 

[kyser_soze]

I think Brooker was a writer on the day today and brass eye so that kind of makes sense.

Nothing to do with TDT or BE - he was still writing game reviews when TDT and BE were broadcast (1994!! There are posters on here younger than TDT is old).

The reason it looks like TDT is that all news shows now look like it. When TDT was rebroadcast recently there was a mini-docu alongside it, where they looked at TV graphics then and now...altho I don't doubt that CB is at least thinking about TDT...

 

[DaRealSpoon]

He wrote on the brass eye peaodo special and with Chris Morris on Nathan Barley, tis probably where I got that from.

Apologies.

People younger than 'the day today' you say? I feel old

 

[grubby local]

was good but not great, but was just the first episode so ...
agree it's a shame davies bit was a rehash but i guess its new for most

just *started* to show how dumb the news is - dermott's economic cycle failure was great, the economy is like a car, a train set etc. agree psychologist and the edit was class.

will try it again. shows promise. i think it suffers a little from just being half hour.

@renegade dog. yep. tumbleweed mate!
gx

 

[beeboo]

dermott's economic cycle failure was great, the economy is like a car, a train set etc. agree psychologist and the edit was class.

It was hard to believe some of that stuff wasn't a parody - the Economic Cycle, FFS!

 

[grubby local]

seems you only have to come up with a punning title to get something made these days. I remember that cnut dermott when diana died, he had the greatest ever hard on that a big story had fallen on his shift. I swear I watched him orgasm live as he read the sen-sational breaking news.
gx

 

[electrogirl]

Newswipe? More like Charlie Brooker's Bumwipe.

 

[mrsfran]

Dermott's very sweet in real life. The features aren't his idea. Economic cycle ffs.

 

[beeboo]

What was going on with the interviewing on his bike ride debacle though -

"So, campsite owner, presumably things really grim, you're on the brink of financial collapse and personal breakdown?"

"No, we own a campsite, everyone is holidaying in the UK this year, bookings are 50% up, everything is peachy...OBVIOUSLY"

 

[8den]

Nothing to do with TDT or BE - he was still writing game reviews when TDT and BE were broadcast (1994!! There are posters on here younger than TDT is old).

Oh thank you very much thats my day off to a fucking brilliant start.

Singularly the most depressing piece of information I've heard all year.

 

[8den]

seems you only have to come up with a punning title to get something made these days. I remember that cnut dermott when diana died, he had the greatest ever hard on that a big story had fallen on his shift. I swear I watched him orgasm live as he read the sen-sational breaking news.
gx

Hell, remember the boxing day tsunami? All the lead reporters were tucked off in home digesting christmas dinner, and the reserves were running the show on all the stations.

Now that was a kick bollock and scramble.

 

[Chz]

I found it oddly unsatisfying, given how much I usually enjoy Screenwipe. Partly because it made me more sad and angry than Screenwipe would - it's real issues and suffering, rather than the usual made up shite that I can just laugh about. I'll watch it, but it's not half as enjoyable.