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Introducing Charlie Brooker...... 

Charlton Brooker, commonly known as Charlie Brooker, (born in Reading, Berkshire)GRO Register of Births: MAR 1971 6a 275 READING, mmn = Povell is a British comedian, writer, columnist and broadcaster. His style of humour is savage and profane, with surreal elements and a consistent satirical pessimism. He is particularly known for his TV shows Screenwipe and Newswipe and his review columns for The Guardian newspaper, and is one of four creative directors of comedy production company Zeppotron. Recently, he has become known for his five-part horror drama Dead Set for E4'', for which he was nominated for a BAFTA.

 

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Screenwipe 

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Charlie Brooker on The Wire

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Charlie Brooker on My Sweet 16

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Charlie Brooker on US TV

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TV Go Home 

TVGoHome was a website which parodied the television listings style of the British magazine Radio Times. It was produced fortnightly from 1999 to 2001, and sporadically until 2003, by Charlie Brooker. The site now exists only in archive form.

The website gained a cult following, partly due to its tie-up with the technology newsletter Need To Know, and its use of strong language, surreal imagery and savage satire reminiscent of the work of Chris Morris. Regular targets for abuse were the Daily Mail, Mick Hucknall of Simply Red, and the TV presenters Rowland Rivron and Nicky Campbell. TVGoHome's most consistent target, however, was fictional. Nathan Barley, an ex-public-school media wannabe living off his parents' wealth, had his life chronicled in a fly-on-the-wall documentary series (in the TVGoHome universe) entitled simply Cunt. The programme mocked the "new media" scene that developed around the turn of the millennium in Hoxton and Shoreditch in east London and its population of middle-class web designers, DJs and magazine producers, their obsessions with absurd fashions and gadgetry, their inevitably feeble attempts at creativity and their tireless and ludicrous efforts to embody the cutting edge of urban cool. Two spinoff books were later released: a TVGoHome compilation of old and new material, and Unnovations, mocking the now-defunct Innovations catalogue.

A television show was produced in 2001, consisting of six half-hour episodes broadcast on E4, later compiled for broadcast on Channel 4. It was written by Brooker, among others, and directed by Tristram Shapeero, who also directed the controversial Brass Eye special on paedophilia. An Unnovations TV show was also produced, and broadcast on UK Play.

Brooker has cited the increasing absurdity of reality television as one of the main reasons he stopped writing TVGoHome. The ideas for real life shows such as Touch the Truck, in which contestants must continually touch a truck for 24 hours in order to win the truck as a prize, were the kind of idea that at one point would only have existed as a satirical creation of Brooker's website. Now that they were becoming a reality, Brooker felt it was time to stop.

A sitcom entitled Nathan Barley, based on a character from TVGoHome and co-written by Brooker with Chris Morris, was broadcast in February 2005.

In 2006, Brooker began a regular column in The Guardian, featuring new TVGoHome listings.

Nathan Barley 

Nathan Barley is a Channel 4 sitcom written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, starring Nicholas Burns, Julian Barratt and Claire Keelan. The series of six weekly episodes began broadcasting on 11 February 2005 on Channel 4. Described by his own creator as a "meaningless strutting cadaver-in-waiting", the character originated on Charlie Brooker's TVGoHome ? a website parodying television listings ? as the focus of a fly-on-the-wall documentary.

Nathan Barley Clips 


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Nathan Barley - Online Russian Tramp Racing

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Charlie's MySpace Blog 

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Charlie on eBay 

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Charlie's Guardian Column 

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Links 

Charlie Brooker archive | The Guide | Guardian Unlimited
Screen Burn archive
TV Go Home
Spoof TV listings
BBC - BBC Four - Screenwipe
Details of Charlie Brooker's caustic look at television
The Church of Charlie Brooker / Archive
All the old (best) site content.
'Oh good, it's raining again'
Charlie goes to Glastonbury
MySpace
MySpace profile for Charlie Brooker with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more
Charlie Brooker IMDb
Writer: "Brass Eye: Paedophilia (#2.0)". Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites.

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