0x1 - A Very Screenwipe Christmas

December 21, 2006

In this Christmas special, Brooker talks about Christmas television from past to present. He reviews Noel Edmonds' Christmas shows, Christmas EastEnders and primetime Christmas Day TV. Rhys Thomas talks about The Box of Delights.

0x3 - The Screenwipe Guide to TV

September 18, 2007

Special edition of the caustic TV-related rantfest, compiling several hilarious reports examining the ghastly backside of television.

0x6 - Review of the Year 2006

December 31, 2006

In this end of year special, Brooker looks back at TV from the year gone by. He reviews shows that tell us how to live, broadcasting landmarks, reality TV and TV comebacks. Grace Dent reviews Britain's soap operas. Mark Gatiss talks about Nigel Kneale who died during the year.

0x7 - Review of the Year 2007

December 19, 2007

Charlie Brooker goes on a razor sharp rant through TV's best and worst offerings of 2007, taking no prisoners as he bids farewell to the year with suitably irreverent commentary.

0x8 - Review of the Year 2008

December 24, 2008

Charlie Brooker celebrates Christmas by taking a look back at all that's happened in TV land over the past year, including reviews of the very best and worst shows to grace our screens in 2008 and reflections on all the big issues.

0x9 - Review of the Year 2009

December 22, 2009

Month by month, Charlie Brooker analyses and mocks television shows from 2009. Among the many programmes reviewed are Noel's HQ, Britain's Got Talent, Extreme Male Beauty, Big Brother, Torchwood: Children of Earth, Inside Nature's Giants, Live From Studio Five, Fearne and... Peaches Geldof, The Execution of Gary Glitter, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and The X Factor. He also shows a montage of people fainting on television and discusses coverage of the death of Michael Jackson; Barry Shitpeas talks about Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time.

0x10 - 2010 Wipe

December 27, 2010

Brooker comments on television, news and other media from 2010, in chronological order. Discussed in depth are the 2010 UK general election and its consequences, as well as television and newspaper coverage of the 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt. Brooker also satirises the news media's coverage of snow and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Tiger Woods' indeflity, musical shows such as Pineapple Dance Studios and Over the Rainbow, Inception, global coverage of Mary Bale putting a cat in a bin, The Apprentice, The Only Way Is Essex and the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. Barry Shitpeas reviews Downton Abbey, Daybreak and The X Factor; Grace Dent covers EastEnders Live; Doug Stanhope talks about the media reaction to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

0x11 - 2011 Wipe

December 30, 2011

Charlie Brooker takes a comedic look back at the hectic events of 2011 - a mad year of royal weddings, Gypsy Weddings, riots, phone-hacking and Desperate Scousewives. With contributions from Doug Stanhope, Adam Curtis and Brian Limond.

0x12 - 2012 Wipe

January 1, 2013

Charlie Brooker takes an irreverent look back at 2012, dissecting a busy year crammed full of Olympian events, including the jubilee, some elections, pussy riots, exposed regal flesh, The Valleys and also some actual Olympian events.

0x13 - 2013 Wipe

Charlie Brooker's 2013 Wipe is a high-octane glance back at the year in which almost nothing happened, apart from meteors, edible horses, cyclists on steroids, insurgents in Mali, fake space monkeys, Splash, Oscar Pistorius, the Pope resigning, a new Pope, Christopher Dormer, The One Show, Chris Huhne, Gogglebox, Bedtime Live, Thatcher's death, a Beiber backlash, Miley Cyrus, twerking, Dogging Tales, the Castro kidnappings. Snooping, Snowden, a Royal baby, Your Face Sounds Familiar, Egypt, Godfrey Bloom, the Damian McBride diaries, Diana... the film, GTA5, Sex Box, hurricanes, storms, Russell Brand on Newsnight and an American Government shutdown.

0x14 - 2014 Wipe

December 30, 2014

Charlie Brooker returns for his annual round-up of the year, which as usual was depressingly devoid of good cheer. Whether it's news, film, telly or Twitter, expect the pointless absurdity of life to get the full Brooker treatment. Charlie will look back on a relentlessly grim year where the cheeriest stories were people throwing ice over themselves, couples consciously uncoupling and an installation of poppies marking the untimely death of millions of young men.

0x15 - 2015 Wipe

December 30, 2015

Brooker discusses the Charlie Hebdo shooting and Moneysupermarket advert "Epic Strut". Cunk and Shitpeas review Fifty Shades of Grey. Brooker then covers the reburial of Richard III and the year's UK general election. Cunk presents a "Moments of Wonder" segment on feminism. Brooker comments on Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party and the aftermath of the election, then moving onto the killing of Cecil the lion. After a negative review of BBC show Frank Sinatra: Our Way, Brooker discusses the allegation that David Cameron put his penis into a dead pig's mouth at university ("Piggate"), along with the media's reaction, and how it mirrored the Black Mirror episode "The National Anthem", which he wrote years prior. Brooker then discusses the Ashley Madison data breach, Britain's intervention in Syria against ISIS (Operation Shader) and Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

0x16 - 2016 Wipe

December 29, 2016

Charlie Brooker returns for his annual review of the year and this year he's picked 2016. Which seems appropriate. Charlie says: "If you told me at the start of the year that by October half our cultural icons would be dead, we'd have voted to leave the EU, and Donald Trump would be hovering near the White House... oh and the Bake Off wouldn't even be on BBC One anymore? I'd have been digging a bunker." Attempting to make sense of the year's news, TV and online phenomena, Charlie will be aided and abetted in this hour long special by guest contributors including the ever insightful Philomena Cunk...

0x18 - Antiviral Wipe

May 14, 2020

Charlie Brooker returns to our screens for the first time since his Bafta Award-winning 2016 Wipe to take a look at life under lockdown. As well as coverage of the crisis itself, he'll also be exploring what we’ve been watching to while away the hours. Guest contributors joining him, from a safe distance, include the ever-insightful Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) and Barry Shitpeas (Al Campbell). If nothing else it will give you something to do for half an hour.

0x19 - Election Wipe

May 6, 2015

A few hours before the polls open, Charlie Brooker presents an irreverent look back at the 2015 general election campaign, mixing the big stories with the funniest and strangest moments along the way. From opinion worms to bizarre photo-ops, Charlie and guests including Philomena Cunk and Barry Shitpeas will save you the time of thinking about the election before the big day by doing it for you. Contains mockery.

0x20 - Games Wipe

September 29, 2009