The current episode of Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe is quite special (series 4 episode 3, or series 5 episode 3 if you count from somewhere else, see comments below). During the programme he chats with several prominent UK screen writers about their work. It’s available on iPlayer here, and foreigners will soon find it on YouTube.
I don’t normally like watching things like that episode, because it sometimes reveals a dispassionate professionalism in heroes that tinges the way I see them forever, like they’ve been dipped in the bog of eternal stench. I don’t necessarily want to know the artist to appreciate their art. I’m that childish.
But all of the people in the programme (Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Graham Linehan, Russell T Davies, Paul Abbott, Tony Jordan) came across well, and none of the questions asked by Brooker were stupid in a way that I, as a layman, could detect.
Tags: BBC, Charlie Brooker, comedy, Media, writing
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Series 5 actually . . .
Season 1, Episode 1: Episode #1.1
Original Air Date—2 March 2006
Season 1, Episode 2: Episode #1.2
Original Air Date—9 March 2006
Season 1, Episode 3: Episode #1.3
Original Air Date—16 March 2006Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Episode #2.1
Original Air Date—20 July 2006
Season 2, Episode 2: Episode #2.2
Original Air Date—27 July 2006
Season 2, Episode 3: Episode #2.3
Original Air Date—3 August 2006
Season 2, Episode 4: Episode #2.4
Original Air Date—10 August 2006
Season 2, Episode 5: Screenwipe USA
Original Air Date—17 August 2006Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Episode #3.1
Original Air Date—5 February 2007
Season 3, Episode 2: Episode #3.2
Original Air Date—12 February 2007
Season 3, Episode 3: Episode #3.3
Original Air Date—19 February 2007
Season 3, Episode 4: Episode #3.4
Original Air Date—26 February 2007Season 4
Season 4, Episode 0: Review of the Year 2007
Original Air Date—19 December 2007
Season 4, Episode 1: Episode #4.1
Original Air Date—25 September 2007
Season 4, Episode 4: Episode #4.4
Original Air Date—16 October 2007Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: Episode #5.1
Original Air Date—18 November 2008 -
Thanks – I’ve updated it a little, but kept the old one in case people uploading elsewhere it use other the counting method as per iPlayer.
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