''Newswipe with Charlie Brooker'' is a British news review

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programme broadcast on

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during 2009 and 2010 which was written and presented by

Charlie Brooker Charlton Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is an English television presenter, writer, producer and satirist. He is the creator and co-showrunner of the sci-fi drama anthology series ''Black Mirror'', and has written for comedy series such as ''Bras ...

. It is similar to Brooker's '' Screenwipe'' series which is also shown on BBC Four. A first series of six episodes ran between 25 March 2009 and 29 April 2009. A second series began on 19 January 2010 and concluded on 23 February 2010.

Format

The aim of ''Newswipe'' was to expose the inner workings of news media, just as ''Screenwipe'' does to television in general. The series was a comic, thoughtful and acerbic analysis of recent news coverage. ''Newswipe'' also looked at the way the news is presented to the public. Experts were on hand to pick apart certain stories and analysed the news media's obsessions. Charlie Brooker commented: "This is new territory for me: I'm no current affairs expert. Just like, I suspect, many people, when I tune into the news I often feel like I've wandered into episode 389 of the world's most complex soap opera. So it's also about me trying to make sense of a bewildering and often bloody stupid world." Like ''Screenwipe'', much of the programme was filmed in Brooker's living room, with shots of him sitting in front of his TV (and laptop) with remote in hand talking to camera, occasionally bellowing insults or sarcastic comments at whatever happens to be shown at the time, interspersed with shots of shows.

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'', reviewing the first episode, called it "glorious, perceptive and rude" and exposing "the inanity of 24-hour news". A clip entitled "How To Report The News" from episode two of the second series amassed over two and a half million views on

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after it was syndicated by ''

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'' soon after its first airing. It is currently the ninth 'top rated' video of all-time on the site. Newswipe won the Entertainment category award at the Royal Television Awards in 2010, beating both ''

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'' and ''

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'', and was also nominated for a BAFTA in the same year for Best Entertainment Programme, however on this occasion losing to Britain's Got Talent.

Episodes

Series 1

Series 2

References

External links

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