Authors: Charlie Brooker
Tags: #General, #Biography & Autobiography, #Television programs, #Performing Arts, #Television, #Entertainment & Performing Arts, #Television personalities
Walking With Beasts
(BBC1),
1
Walking With Sea Monsters
(BBC1),
1
Walsh, Bradley,
1
Waterman, Dennis,
1
Waterman, Hannah,
1
The Way We Travelled
(BBC2),
1
Weird Nature
(BBC1),
1
What Not To Wear
(BBC2),
1
Whately, Kevin,
1
When Louis Met Anne Widdecombe
(BBC2),
1
Whicker, Alan,
1
Whitehouse, Paul,
1
Whiteley, Richard,
1
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
(ITV1),
1
,
2
,
3
Wife Swap
(C4),
1
Wilkes, Jonathan: replaces Lisa Riley, leans chin-first on pool cue,
1
;
inspires new swearword,
2
Willcox, Toyah,
1
Williams, Robbie: dreadful vocal stylings of,
1
;
appropriates Sinatra’s legacy,
2
;
imitates Elvis,
1
;
vaguely resembles man from
Rockface
,
1
;
unavailable recording of,
1
;
is much admired by cretins,
1
;
interminable self-pitying burblings of,
1
Willis, Bruce,
1
Winkleman, Claudia,
1
With Friends Like These
(BBC2),
1
Without Prejudice
(C4),
1
Witness: Living On Light
(C4),
1
Woodall, Trinny,
1
Woodford, Kevin,
1
World Bloody Cup
(BBC1/ITV),
1
Worral Thompson, Anthony: mimes ‘Ooh La La’ by The Wiseguys,
1
;
absence of supermarket deal,
2
;
has fragrant testicles,
1
;
rises in estimation,
1
Would Like To Meet
(BBC2),
1
Wudja? Cudja?
(ITV1),
1
The X Factor
(ITV),
1
You Are What You Eat
(C4),
1
You’ve Been Framed
(ITV1),
1
,
2
,
3
Young Americans
(Five),
1
Young, Posh And Loaded
(ITV1),
1
Zero To Hero
(C4),
1
TV Go Home
Unnovations
Charlie Brooker is a writer and broadcaster. He created the satirical website
TV Go Home
in 1999, which in turn spawned Channel 4’s
Nathan Barley
(co-written with Chris Morris). Prior to joining the
Guardian
in the year 2000, Brooker worked as a cartoonist and videogames ‘journalist’. He currently writes and presents
Charlie Brooker’s
Screen Wipe
on BBC Four.
First published in 2005
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Foreword © Graham Linehan, 2005
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