Posts Tagged ‘tv’
Only Connect | BBC2
11 July, 2016Series 12 of Only Connect, with me in the question-editor chair, begins tonight on BBC Two at 8.30pm.
“It’s a safe space, where a very specifically talented group of people get to show off in their own understated way for an audience of their peers. And this is what makes it so brilliant.” – Stuart Heritage, Guardian
“…that will surely be the highlight of the week for all lovers of uncompromisingly smart television” – James Walton, Telegraph
“What is the link between these numbers? 285,000, 684,000, 1.1m, 2.9m. The answer is they are soaring viewers figures for Only Connect, the toughest quiz on television, which began as a BBC4 obscurity and has now overtaken BBC1 in the ratings.” – Adam Sherwin, Independent
“Only Connect: the best quiz on TV?” – Radio Times
The One Show | BBC1
15 March, 2016I’m on The One Show this evening, discussing spying and crosswords with Gyles Brandreth.
Charlie Brooker’s 2015 Wipe | BBC2
29 December, 2015On Stage: Live From Television Centre | BBC4
14 November, 2015Tomorrow night, Live From Television Centre, a four-play theatrical collaboration with Battersea Arts Centre, is on BBC4.
I am proud to have made a contribution to the last part, Jess Thom‘s Broadcast from Biscuit Land, which also features Jess Mabel Jones and, fleetingly, me.
- 9pm, Sunday 15 November 2015, BBC Four
- Battersea Arts Centre blog post | BBC press release
Only Connect | BBC2
13 July, 2015Series 11 of Only Connect, with me in the question-editor chair, begins tonight on BBC Two at 8.30pm.
Charlie Brooker’s Election Wipe | BBC2
30 April, 2015I am a proud member of Team Election Wipe, the fruits of whose labours will be broadcast shortly before the polls open.
Alternative Election Night | Channel 4
30 April, 2015Only Connect — Now on BBC Two
28 August, 2014Series ten of Only Connect, with me in the question-editor chair, begins on BBC Two on Mon 1 September 2014 at 20:30.
Only Connect for BBC Four
14 April, 2014The new series of quiz show Only Connect starts tonight on BBC Four, with me in the question-editor seat.
Charlie Brooker’s 2013 Wipe for BBC Two
28 December, 2013I am a proud member of Team 2013 Wipe, the fruit of whose toil will be on BBC Two tonight:
Update 6 Jan: And the second series of Weekly Wipe begins on Thu 9 Jan on BBC Two.
A Young Doctor’s Notebook and Other Stories
18 November, 2013Only Connect: A Quiz Show for BBC4
1 November, 2013As of the next series, I will be the question editor for BBC Four’s million-viewer quiz Only Connect, which will incidentally move to BBC Two in 2014.
- Series eight is currently on iPlayer
Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe for BBC Two
28 January, 2013I am a proud member of Team Weekly Wipe, which starts on BBC Two on Thursday evening at 22h00.
Update 01-02-2013: Here’s the programme, while it lasts:
A Young Doctor’s Notebook DVD
7 January, 2013Good news for those who don’t own a squarial: A Young Doctor’s Notebook is available today on DVDÂ from BBC Worldwide and Big Talk.
Charlie Brooker’s 2012 Wipe for BBC Two
1 January, 2013I am a proud member of Team 2012 Wipe, the fruit of whose toil will be on BBC Two tonight:
Update 02-01-2013: Here’s the programme, while it lasts:
A Young Doctor’s Notebook: How We Adapted Mikhail Bulgakov
5 December, 2012A piece for the Guardian about A Young Doctor’s Notebook: how we adapted the short stories for the screen and why Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm are playing the same nameless doctor:
Our focus was the emotional core of the hospital tales: the hardening of the junior medic. In Bulgakov’s book, in interior monologue, the young doctor wonders how a more experienced practitioner might react, wishing he had the composure of his future self. But as the story Morphine warns us, that older self may not be wiser; he might, in fact, be a junkie. We wanted to incorporate that story: on screen, the older doctor (Hamm) is right there for the younger (Radcliffe) to talk to; but he turns out to be a damaged man: nostalgic, regretful, not above the occasional pratfall.

An extra treat in the past week has been seeing Hugh Aplin’s and Michael Glenny’s translations now sporting AS SEEN ON TV labels
- A Young Doctor’s Notebook, 9pm, Thursdays from 6 December; Sky Arts
- Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm discuss the series
- Trailer
- NTV news package
A Young Doctor’s Notebook for Sky Arts
19 May, 2012
I am working on an adaptation of MikhaÃl Bulgakov’s ЗапиÑки юного врача for Big Talk and Point West Picures, as A Young Doctor’s Notebook. It is part of Playhouse Presents….
The writers are Mark Chappell, me and Shaun Pye and the medium is comedy-drama. It’s set in 1917; while some press has inferred that the background is the first world war or the Russian revolution, the setting is in fact snow. Lots of snow.
More details in the Guardian…
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe and Mad Men’s Jon Hamm [will] play the same doctor at different stages of his life in the four-part series, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, by Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
Hamm will play the older man, who has a series of ‘bleakly comic’ exchanges with his younger self, played by Radcliffe.
…and I am sad that Variety’s piece includes no puns or jargon.
10 O’Clock Live for Channel 4
19 February, 2012I am back at 10 O’Clock Live. When it isn’t live, you can again watch clips, like this one people like [NB: the final “…unless you count all those times they had a go at witches” is unforgivably omitted and archivists should note that what sounds like “Tory boys” is in fact “toy boys”]:
Screenwipe Review of the Year 2011 for BBC Four
29 December, 2011I am a proud member of Team Screenwipe 2011, the fruit of whose toil will soon be on BBC Four:
Black Mirror: The National Anthem
4 December, 2011I made a thinkribution to The National Anthem, the first story in the Charlie-Brooker-yielded Channel 4 drama collection Black Mirror, but (a) barely perceptibly and so (b) you should watch it — with a caveat about adult themes.
- date/tx/channel: Sun 04 Dec/2100/C4