Charlie Brooker to host 'Weekly Wipe' series for BBC2

Charlie Brooker is to front a new weekly comedy series for BBC Two.

Weekly Wipe will launch in 2013 and sees the journalist and TV personality scrutinise newspaper headlines, TV shows, adverts, films, books, video games, social media trends and YouTube phenomena.
Brooker will be joined by celebrity guests, while US comedian Doug Stanhope will make regular contributions throughout the run.

Brooker said: “Every week we’ll be looking at TV, games, ‘things in the ether’, the online world, and anything and everything in between. And if we need to pad the show out a bit, we’ll probably review egg whisks too.”

The six-part run will be preceded by Brooker’s annual end-of-year Wipe special, in which he’ll take a look at key events from 2012 including the London Olympics, the US election, the Diamond Jubilee and Hurricane Sandy.