Tonight sees the long-awaited return to TV of Charlie Brooker’s ‘Screen Wipe’, an absolute must-watch for any media student. Essentially a more vicious and vitriolic version of Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Brooker chews up and spits out anything that stinks of hypocrisy and mediocrity. Think of it as The TV Vomit to TV Burp.
Charlie Brooker is a spectacularly foul-mouthed and hilarious commentator on the media. For proof of his genius you need look no further than this description of X-Factor hopeful Eoghan from his Guardian column at the weekend. ‘He’s like a cross between the Test Card clown and a crayon portrait of Jamie Oliver. Weird’.
It’s on BBC4 at 10:30 tonight, but if you don’t have access to the channel make use of the BBC iPlayer to catch it. There really is no better introduction to the current TV landscape.
Warning: Mr Brooker can be offensive, but never gratuitously so. Don’t blame me if he upsets you.
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Monday, 17 November 2008
Analyse this!
In a couple of weeks time we'll by shifting our attention in the direction of newspapers. The following adverts serves as a convenient bridge from the realm of the moving image to the land of the still image.
Watch it and makes notes on all the ways in which it targets its audience.
Watch it and makes notes on all the ways in which it targets its audience.
...And we're back. Almost.
OK, I admit it, I've been slack. I started this blog with the best of intentions about bombarding you with all kinds of media-related goodness, but within a matter of weeks the whole place is boarded-up and the garden's over-run with weeds. But I'm here to promise change. Consider this my solemnly taken oath to pledge that stuff is about to happen round here. And soon.
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