Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn

Author: Brooker, Charlie

Brand: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 384

Release Date: 04-10-2012

Details: Product Description
'These days, watching television is like sitting in the back of Travis Bickle's taxicab, staring through the window at a world of relentless, churning shod ... 'Cruel, acerbic, impassioned, gleeful, frequently outrageous and always hilarious, Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn collects the best of the much-loved Guardian Guide columns into one easy-to-read-on-the-toilet package.Sit back and roar as Brooker rips mercilessly into Simon Cowell, Big Brother, Trinny and Susannah, Casualty, Davina McCall, Michael Parkinson ... and almost everything elso on television.This book will make practically anyone laugh out loud.
Book Description
Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn: 'Anger drives Charlie Brooker - and makes him very, very funny.' The Observer
About the Author
Charlie Brooker has worked as a writer, journalist, cartoonist and broadcaster. His TV writing credits include
Nathan Barley,
BAFTA-nominated satirical horror
Dead Set and the Rose D'or-winning sci-fi festival-of-cheeriness
Black Mirror. He also writes and presents the RTS-winning '
Wipe' series of BBC shows, Channel 4's
Ten O'Clock Live,and Radio 4's
So Wrong It's Right. He is also well known for his weekly columns in the Guardian newspaper. But so what? One day, he will die.

EAN: 9780571297634

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English