Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe Specials

TV Show

Specials Episodes

1. A Very Screenwipe Christmas

December 21st, 200630 min

In this Christmas special, Brooker talks about Christmas television from past to present. He reviews Noel Edmonds' Christmas shows, Christmas EastEnders and primetime Christmas Day TV. Rhys Thomas talks about The Box of Delights.

3. The Screenwipe Guide to TV

September 18th, 200730 min

Special edition of the caustic TV-related rantfest, compiling several hilarious reports examining the ghastly backside of television.

6. Review of the Year 2006

December 31st, 200630 min

In this end of year special, Brooker looks back at TV from the year gone by. He reviews shows that tell us how to live, broadcasting landmarks, reality TV and TV comebacks. Grace Dent reviews Britain's soap operas. Mark Gatiss talks about Nigel Kneale who died during the year.

7. Review of the Year 2007

December 19th, 200730 min

Charlie Brooker goes on a razor sharp rant through TV's best and worst offerings of 2007, taking no prisoners as he bids farewell to the year with suitably irreverent commentary.

8. Review of the Year 2008

December 24th, 200830 min

Charlie Brooker celebrates Christmas by taking a look back at all that's happened in TV land over the past year, including reviews of the very best and worst shows to grace our screens in 2008 and reflections on all the big issues.

9. Review of the Year 2009

December 22nd, 200930 min

Month by month, Charlie Brooker analyses and mocks television shows from 2009. Among the many programmes reviewed are Noel's HQ, Britain's Got Talent, Extreme Male Beauty, Big Brother, Torchwood: Children of Earth, Inside Nature's Giants, Live From Studio Five, Fearne and... Peaches Geldof, The Execution of Gary Glitter, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and The X Factor. He also shows a montage of people fainting on television and discusses coverage of the death of Michael Jackson; Barry Shitpeas talks about Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time.

10. 2010 Wipe

December 27th, 201030 min

Brooker comments on television, news and other media from 2010, in chronological order. Discussed in depth are the 2010 UK general election and its consequences, as well as television and newspaper coverage of the 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt. Brooker also satirises the news media's coverage of snow and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Tiger Woods' indeflity, musical shows such as Pineapple Dance Studios and Over the Rainbow, Inception, global coverage of Mary Bale putting a cat in a bin, The Apprentice, The Only Way Is Essex and the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. Barry Shitpeas reviews Downton Abbey, Daybreak and The X Factor; Grace Dent covers EastEnders Live; Doug Stanhope talks about the media reaction to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

11. 2011 Wipe

December 30th, 201130 min

Charlie Brooker takes a comedic look back at the hectic events of 2011 - a mad year of royal weddings, Gypsy Weddings, riots, phone-hacking and Desperate Scousewives. With contributions from Doug Stanhope, Adam Curtis and Brian Limond.

12. 2012 Wipe

January 1st, 201330 min

Charlie Brooker takes an irreverent look back at 2012, dissecting a busy year crammed full of Olympian events, including the jubilee, some elections, pussy riots, exposed regal flesh, The Valleys and also some actual Olympian events.

13. 2013 Wipe

November 19th, 202430 min

Charlie Brooker's 2013 Wipe is a high-octane glance back at the year in which almost nothing happened, apart from meteors, edible horses, cyclists on steroids, insurgents in Mali, fake space monkeys, Splash, Oscar Pistorius, the Pope resigning, a new Pope, Christopher Dormer, The One Show, Chris Huhne, Gogglebox, Bedtime Live, Thatcher's death, a Beiber backlash, Miley Cyrus, twerking, Dogging Tales, the Castro kidnappings. Snooping, Snowden, a Royal baby, Your Face Sounds Familiar, Egypt, Godfrey Bloom, the Damian McBride diaries, Diana... the film, GTA5, Sex Box, hurricanes, storms, Russell Brand on Newsnight and an American Government shutdown.

14. 2014 Wipe

December 30th, 201430 min

Charlie Brooker returns for his annual round-up of the year, which as usual was depressingly devoid of good cheer. Whether it's news, film, telly or Twitter, expect the pointless absurdity of life to get the full Brooker treatment. Charlie will look back on a relentlessly grim year where the cheeriest stories were people throwing ice over themselves, couples consciously uncoupling and an installation of poppies marking the untimely death of millions of young men.

15. 2015 Wipe

December 30th, 201530 min

Brooker discusses the Charlie Hebdo shooting and Moneysupermarket advert "Epic Strut". Cunk and Shitpeas review Fifty Shades of Grey. Brooker then covers the reburial of Richard III and the year's UK general election. Cunk presents a "Moments of Wonder" segment on feminism. Brooker comments on Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party and the aftermath of the election, then moving onto the killing of Cecil the lion. After a negative review of BBC show Frank Sinatra: Our Way, Brooker discusses the allegation that David Cameron put his penis into a dead pig's mouth at university ("Piggate"), along with the media's reaction, and how it mirrored the Black Mirror episode "The National Anthem", which he wrote years prior. Brooker then discusses the Ashley Madison data breach, Britain's intervention in Syria against ISIS (Operation Shader) and Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

16. 2016 Wipe

December 29th, 201630 min

Charlie Brooker returns for his annual review of the year and this year he's picked 2016. Which seems appropriate. Charlie says: "If you told me at the start of the year that by October half our cultural icons would be dead, we'd have voted to leave the EU, and Donald Trump would be hovering near the White House... oh and the Bake Off wouldn't even be on BBC One anymore? I'd have been digging a bunker." Attempting to make sense of the year's news, TV and online phenomena, Charlie will be aided and abetted in this hour long special by guest contributors including the ever insightful Philomena Cunk...

17. The Best Of 2010-2015 Wipe

December 29th, 201930 min

Highlights of the annual programmes in which the Black Mirror creator looked back over the first five years of the decade. This episode includes a new introduction by Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk.

All Seasons

Season 5

Season 5

Nov 18, 2008
Season 4

Season 4

Sep 25, 2007
Season 3

Season 3

Feb 5, 2007
Season 2

Season 2

Jul 20, 2006
Season 1

Season 1

Mar 2, 2006
Specials

Specials

Dec 21, 2006