You Have Been Watching... Charlie Brooker

[rollinder]

just watched episode 2 on E4 - fun, some great lines but a bit rubbish/too throwaway really.

Good segment on the Michael Jackson memorial (ITN's Jackson v Diana memoral deathmatch
) & the Nicky Campbell hate was genius (the Littliest Hobo )
but the tv club and quizz round parts din't really gell at all this week.

Was that deliberate use of Elbows' One Day Like This over the paper plane throwing plinth woman? - had me yelling "you bastard" at the screen due to flashbacks of Konnie Huq & shycock

Wonder if it/Charlie'll make it to the scheduled end of the series without getting pulled/spectacually falling apart.

Episode 1 was pretty fucking good considering - especially Jamilia suddenly having to read out a TV Go Home type listing.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

yeah

needs less quiz


getting a few other people on to join in with the tv comentary isn't too bad but the quiz side is poor

 

[Looby]

just watched episode 2 on E4 - fun, some great lines but a bit rubbish/too throwaway really.

Good segment on the Michael Jackson memorial (ITN's Jackson v Diana memoral deathmatch
.

That was hilarious. I preferred this week but I think that's partly because the guests were better.

 

[Dillinger4]

I like Charlie Brooker. I think he is funny and everything. I even like this program, mostly. If it wasn't so fucking quizzy.

But I am becoming increasingly bored by my television talking about itself. Television about television. Thanatoids.

 

[foo]

i like him, but not on this. he's a bit embarrassing uncle-ey isn't he.

 

[kabbes]

The kabbess, who loved Screenwipe and so forth, announced whilst watching this week's: "Charlie Brooker isn't as funny as he thinks he is." I think that it is sad that it has got to this point. Do you see what danger you are in, Brooker? DO YOU? DO YOU SEE IT?

 

[foo]

the kabbess is bang on the money imo. he's shooting himself in the foot with this one cos he's lost his bite, and comes across like any other game show host. shame really.

and he laughs at his own jokes.

 

[kabbes]

Brooker, why have you foresaken us?

 

[8den]

We're going on Saturday, they've suggested that we watch some Jeremy Kyle as preparation, as this will be a significant part of the show.

 

[trashpony]

the kabbess is bang on the money imo. he's shooting himself in the foot with this one cos he's lost his bite, and comes across like any other game show host. shame really.

and he laughs at his own jokes.

It always happens to people in the meejah - their vanity outweighs their judgement in the end and they do something shit

 

[Santino]

I liked it again.

 

[kabbes]

I liked it, but I'm quite good at ignoring the bits that don't work and lolling at the lols. Being a bit more objective, though, it's not a patch on Screenwipe.

 

[Santino]

It's not, but I reckon he can churn out one of these a week, whereas Screenwipe seems to take an age for six episodes.

 

[kabbes]

But he still needs to lose the ridiculous quiz show format.

 

[8den]

the kabbess is bang on the money imo. he's shooting himself in the foot with this one cos he's lost his bite, and comes across like any other game show host. shame really.

and he laughs at his own jokes.

Do you know anyone doing any job who consistently pulls off brilliant work with flair?

Everyone has bum days and dips and has lows, it's just a presenter or media commentator has his off days broadcasted in your home.

 

[ovaltina]

I saw half of the first one and didn't like the studio audience - especially when they were laughing at Screenwipe-style VT. It just feels wrong and I think a quiz show is the wrong format for him. Not sure what the right format is - maybe a newspaper column?

 

[foo]

Do you know anyone doing any job who consistently pulls off brilliant work with flair?

me?

 

[8den]

me?

Yes, but you're 14 different kinds of awesome.

 

[DotCommunist]

I saw half of the first one and didn't like the studio audience - especially when they were laughing at Screenwipe-style VT. It just feels wrong and I think a quiz show is the wrong format for him. Not sure what the right format is - maybe a newspaper column?

you joking? he's got a regular monday column in grauniads G2 supplement. Has had for years

 

[foo]

Yes, but you're 14 different kinds of awesome.

15 actually, but ta.

 

[foo]

he's got a regular monday column in grauniads G2 supplement. Has had for years

i think that was a joke Dot.

 

[ovaltina]

you joking? he's got a regular monday column in grauniads G2 supplement. Has had for years

I know - that's what I meant!

He comes across really well in print - the ranty angry stuff especially - and looking at the Guardian website it's usually the most-read thing for the first half of the week.

Screenwipe's good because it's his own niche show and he obv gets flexibility and editorial control, but this C4 show is just a bit too mainstream and feels wrong. The studio audience laughing to VT of him ranting about how shit stuff is just feels contrived.

You can imagine the TV execs sitting around saying "Yah, yah, have you seen that Screenwipe show on BBC 4 - fucking brilliant yah... so why don't we have it on Channel 4 right? Yah! Let's get the bugger over and put him on something? Oh I don't know what - Never Mind the Buzzcocks but about telly? With the Screenwipe bits though because that's what people like. What? Why won't Screenwipe and Buzzcocks go together? Just ballywell make them go together! It's only facking telly isn't it!"

 

[Metal Malcolm]

We're going on Saturday, they've suggested that we watch some Jeremy Kyle as preparation, as this will be a significant part of the show.

Saturday? I'm going this week but it's sunday surely?

 

[8den]

Saturday? I'm going this week but it's sunday surely?

Checks e-mail, nope Saturday the 18th, in the subject line.

 

[Awesome Wells]

me too. Not as good as screenwipe at all. Quite why it's a gameshow format is strange,

 

[Dillinger4]

Jeremy Kyle? Cutting edge stuff.

 

[PacificOcean]

Jeremy Kyle? Cutting edge stuff.

I thought that.

Even Jennifer Saunders done a pisstake a couple of years ago with Viven Vile.

You can't take the piss out of something that is so far beyond the pail already.

Having said that, I really enjoyed the last episode of his C4 show, so who I am I to shoot him down in flames before he has even started?

We are a fickle lot, this internet subculture.

 

[8den]

We are a fickle lot, this internet subculture.

You're just getting that? The guy produces a website that is a brilliant satire on tv, gets a news tv column that is so good I even enjoy it when he writes about big brother, gets another column where he rants about anything from conspiracy theories to holidays all of which are razor sharp. But he's not just a sitting on the sidelines kind of bloke, he goes on to make tv, co writing a biting satire, as well as writing as a high/lo concept zombie horror tv show, and presenting and writing a consistently fantastic examination of news/tv program.

And we're saying this one is just shit? It's still a trillion times better then mock the week.

 

[Gingerman]

Soooo no-one else watching this then? was pretty good last night,Jeremy Kyle got a well deserved kicking,that Swan program from the States jeez ,I want to marry Josie Long btw

 

[fogbat]

Boo - You guys put me off this, but I've watched the first few episodes now and really enjoyed them