Charlie Brooker

At 53 years old, Charlie Brooker has this physical status:

Career

He was invited to write for the journal after some of Brooker's CeX cartoons were published in the magazine PC Zone. His first published review was of the 1997 game Fallout. In the mid and late 1990s, Brooker wrote for the magazine. Aside from games reviews, Brooker's output included "Cybertwats" and a column titled "Sick Notes," where Brooker would insult anyone who wrote in to the magazine – and gave a £50 award to the best letter. The magazine was pulled from many British newsagents' shelves thanks to one of Brooker's one-shot cartoons. The cartoon, "Helmut Werstler's Cruelty Zoo," appeared to be an advertisement for a Teutonic psychologist for children's park, encouraging children to put their violent impulses on animals rather than humans. Among other things, there were photoshopped images of monkeys smashing the skulls of monkeys with hammers, running on a badger with a pitchfork, and chainsawing an orang-utan. The original joke was supposed to be at the expense of the Tomb Raider games, which were known at the time for the number of animals killed, but the original name, "Lara Croft's Cruelty Zoo," was changed for legal reasons. Brooker and several other ex-writers were invited back to write a game for the 200th issue in October 2008. Brooker analyzed Euro Truck Simulator.

Brooker began writing "Screen Burn" for The Guardian newspaper's Saturday entertainment newspaper in 2000, a position he continued to do until October 2010.

He began writing "Supposing," a newspaper in the Guardian supplement, in which he free-associated on a series of vague what-if themes from late 2005 to Friday. On Mondays, this column was extended to a full page, with samples from TVGoHome and Ignopedia, as well as an occasional series of pseudo-articles on topics commonly recommended by readers. Although Wikipedia is written and edited by thousands of users, Ignopedia will be produced by a single subpoena with no or no knowledge of the facts.

"Where are you now that we need?" George W. Bush and the forthcoming 2004 US presidential election began with a column on October 24, 2004, which concluded, "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley, Jr.." That was condemned for Brooker's apparent support for the assassination of the American president. The Guardian ripped the article from its website and released it, while Brooker's apology was accepted. He has since expressed disappointment over a remark in the column, saying: 'It's not true.'

In 2010, Brooker began writing the "Screen Burn" column. He wrote in the final column about how difficult it was to reconcile his place in mainstream media and TV production with his writing as a scabrous critic or to objectively criticize those he had worked and socialized with as a young man. Grace Dent, a long-serving reporter, took over the column. He began contributing other articles to The Guardian on a daily basis, his most recent commentary column appeared in May 2015.

He contributed to the book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who in 2012.

In 2014, an article he wrote for The Guardian titled "Too much talk for one planet: why I'm reducing my word emissions" was published in the A-Level anthology Voices in Speech and Writing: An Anthology.

He wrote the satirical TVGoHome website, a monthly collection of mock TV schedules released in a style similar to the Radio Times', consisting of a mix of brutal satire and bizarre humour and being included in the technology newsletter Need to Know. In 2001, a print version of the site was published by the Fourth Estate. On the same year, a TV sketch show based on the site was shown on UK digital station E4 in the United Kingdom.

Brooker was interviewed for Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast series in May 2012. He made his second appearance on the podcast in 2019, which was announced in March 2020.

In the short-lived show Games Republic, hosted by Trevor and Simon, Brooker played 'the Pundit' from 1999 to 2000.

Brooker, one of the writers of Channel 4's The 11 O'Clock Show and a co-host (with Gia Milinovich) on BBC Knowledge's The Kit, a low-budget gadget and electronics magazine (1999–2000). He was one of many writers on Channel 4's Brass Eye special on paedophilia in 2001.

For Channel 4's The Art Show, Brooker produced an episode entitled "How to Watch Television." The episode was primarily animated and was made in the style of a public information film.

Nathan Barley, co-wrote the sitcom Nathan Barley, based on a character from one of TVGoHome's fictional programs, co-wrote it with Chris Morris of Brass Eye. The programme was broadcast in 2005 and mainly focused on the lives of a group of London media 'trendies'. He appeared on the Channel 4 sketch show Spoons, which was also produced by Zeppotron in the same year.

Brooker began writing and presenting the television series Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on BBC Four, a television review service that was in a similar vein to his Screen Burn columns in The Guardian, in 2006. The programme returned later this year for a second run of four episodes plus Christmas and Review of the Year specials in December 2006. A third series was released in February 2007, followed by a Year in December 2007. In November 2008, the fifth series was released, followed by another Review of the Year special. In January 2009, this series was also the first to be shown on terrestrial television (BBC Two).

The latest screenwipe editions have concentrated on a variety of topics, including American television, television news, television, marketing, and children's programs. Brooker appeared on "Angry News Guy" in one week, the last of which involved a segment in which Brooker appeared on Toonattik for one week. Many of Britain television's most popular writers were interviewed by Brooker in an episode on scriptwriting.

On January 25, 2009, Newswipe with Charlie Brooker, a similar show focusing on recent affairs coverage by the international news media, launched on BBC Four. On January 19, 2010, a second series premiered. He has also contributed to and curated the one-off special Gameswipe, which specialized on video games and aired on BBC Four on September 29.

In December 2010, Brooker's 2010 Wipe, a 2010 retrospective, was released. The end-of-year Wipe specials continued every year, the last one to date being broadcast on December 29, 2016. The annual Wipe went on hiatus from 2017 to 2009, owing to Brooker's dedication to Black Mirror and other initiatives.

On January 31, 2013, Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe became the first broadcast on BBC Two. It's a blend of Screenwipe and Newswipe, with sections focusing on recent news, television shows, and films. It also features guests who address recent events alongside the regular cast members. In 2014 and 2015, two more series were produced. On May 6, 2015, Election Wipe, a 60-minute special, focused on the events leading up to the 2015 general election.

On May 14, 2020, a 45-minute BBC Two special, Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe, aired. It was a life during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. It was created during the UK lockout, which had caused a series starring Wipe actor Philomena Cunk to be postponed. The majority of the crew from the series have since returned to Antiviral Wipe to work. Brooker initially refused to make the special, but later agreed when it was clear that the production would be largely unchanged, with few characters appearing on the same screen together and heavy use of archive footage—particularly suited to the lockdown laws. The editing process was the most affected.

"Thank You for watching," he often says in his programs. Now go away."

In the Big Brother house, Brooker wrote Dead Set, a five-part zombie horror drama set in the Big Brother house. The show was broadcast in October 2008 to coincide with Halloween and then on Channel 4 in January 2009 to coincide with Celebrity Big Brother and later this year. Zeppotron, which also made Screenwipe, manufactured it.

Brooker told MediaGuardian.co.uk that it was made up of a "mixture of well-known and less well-known faces." "Dead Set is very different to what I've done before, and I hope the end result will surprise, delight, and appall people in equal measure." He has long been a fan of horror films, and his latest film "could not be described as a comedy," he said. Brooker said, "I couldn't really explain what it is but it would possibly surprise people," Brooker said, adding that he intends to "continue as normal" with his print journalism.

On the television show, Jaime Winstone appeared as a runner, and Davina McCall guest star Davina McCall appeared as herself. Dead Set received a BAFTA award for Best Drama Serial.

Three episodes of Brooker's Black Mirror, a science fiction anthology series, aired on Channel 4 in December 2011, receiving mainly favorable feedback. Brooker wrote the first episode and co-wrote the second with his wife Konnie Huq, as well as producing the show. All three episodes of series two were written by him. Netflix announced a third season of 12 episodes in September 2015, with Channel 4 losing the rights to the program. In October 2016, a trailer for the third season was released. This was later turned into a six-story series. On October 21, 2016, Netflix's third season premiered. Brooker has only written four of the episodes in series three and has co-written the remaining two.

In December 2017, the fourth season was released, followed by a full-length interactive film Bandersnatch in December 2018. In June 2019, the fifth season was announced.

Zeppotron for Endemol created the series. "Each episode has a different cast, a different location, and even a different reality, in terms of the program's structure and structure," Brooker said. But they're all about the lifestyle we live now, as well as the fact that we could live in ten minutes if we were clumsy."

The collection, according to an Endemol press release, is "a mash-up of The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected, tapping into our modern anxieties of our modern world," with the stories having a "scientific" feel. The first episode of Channel 4 describes it as "a twisted parable for the Twitter age."

"If technology is a drug – and it does seem as if it is a drug – what, specifically, are the side-effects?" Brooker explained the series's title to The Guardian, noting: "If it is a drug – and it does seem like a drug." Black Mirror, my latest drama collection, is set in this region, between pleasure and annoyance. The title's 'black mirror' is the one you'll find on every wall, in every desk, and in the palm of every hand: the crisp, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, and a smartphone.

Several news outlets, including one by Chris Cillizza, a Washington Post political reporter, compared the 2016 Donald Trump political campaign to "The Waldo Moment," a 2013 Black Mirror television series; later, in September 2016, Brooker likened the Trump campaign to the episode and correctly predicted that Trump would win the 2016 race and correctly predicted that Trump will win the 2016 election.

Daniel Maier co-wrote A Touch of Cloth, a spoof crime drama for Sky1, which premiered on August 26, 2012, starring John Hannah and Suranne Jones, both known for being actors in genuine crime dramas. In 2013, and 2014, two new series were released, with Karen Gillan playing Karen Gillan in the latter.

Brooker has appeared on three episodes and one webisode of the popular BBC current affairs news quiz Have I Got News for You? He appeared on an episode of the Channel 4 panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats, The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2009, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and Would I Lie To You? In December 2006, he reviewed two games written by the presenters of VideoGaiden on their show. He appeared in the third and final instalment of Games Britannia, addressing the rise and success of computer games.

Brooker wrote for Rush Hour, a BBC Three sketch show.

On Channel 4's television show You Have Been Watching, Brooker began hosting You Have Been Watching, a panel comedy TV quiz that addresses television. The following year, a new series was released.

Brooker, alongside David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, and Lauren Laverne co-host of the Channel 4 alternative election night on May 6, 2010. Brooker's appearances were interspersed in the studio, but the majority of the recording was pre-recorded. Notably, these included a "Election Special" of You Have Been Watching and two smaller segments in a virtually identical style to Screenwipe (the only notable difference being that Brooker was in a different room). During the show, Brooker described live television as so nerve-wracking he "did a piss" during the broadcast. In January 2011, a spin-off series, ten O'Clock Live, began with the same four hosts.

During January and March 2011, Brooker hosted How TV Ruined Your Life, which aired on BBC Two.

Hugh Grant, a comedian, revealed that Brooker was making a mockumentary for Netflix "about 2020." Grant said he would appear as "a scholar who is being interviewed about the year." On Netflix on December 27, 2020, the mockumentary, Death to 2020, was announced.

Cat Burglar, a computer simulation story set in 2022, was released. Brooker was credited as the designer.

Brooker's So Wrong It's Right, a BBC Radio 4 series in which guests compete to present the worst prospective franchises with the worst of all possible answers, from 2010 to 2012. It aired 17 episodes in three series. So Wrong It's Right uses another track from the same album, Summer Here Kids, in accordance with Screenwipe's use of a Grandaddy song (A.M. 180) from the album Under the Western Freeway as its theme tune.

He appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in January 2018.

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