Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
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Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe is a British television review programme created and presented by Charlie Brooker. It is the most recent addition to Brooker's Wipe series, and the first to be broadcast in HD.[2] The programme is an amalgam of the earlier Wipe series, with reviews of current television programmes, news events, games, and films.
Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe | |
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Genre | Review Cultural critic |
Created by | Charlie Brooker |
Presented by | Charlie Brooker |
Theme music composer | Nathan Fake |
Opening theme | "You Are Here" (FortDax Remix) by Nathan Fake[1] |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 23 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Zeppotron House of Tomorrow |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 31 January 2013 (2013-01-31) ā 29 December 2016 (2016-12-29) |
Related | |
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe Newswipe with Charlie Brooker Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe |
The programme was commissioned by the BBC in November 2012, with six episodes ordered.[3] It began airing on 31 January 2013, and was broadcast on BBC Two. Two more series followed in 2014 and 2015.[4][5][6] A special edition of the show entitled Election Wipe was broadcast on 6 May 2015, the day before the UK general election.[7]
In May 2020 a new one-off episode entitled Antiviral Wipe was broadcast, which was filmed in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]