How Television Ruined Your Life (BBC)

☻ ☻ Charlie Brooker's back! How Television Ruined Your Life (BBC2) shows the usual OTT Charlie dissing TV while attempting to convince viewers Midsomer's a real place and Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge was an actual chat show. Full of the expected strong language and gross imagery, but very, very funny. A relatively tame clip: Trouble at the office Speaking out: "[O]ne of his most acute shows to date. ... Brooker’s comedy is mixed with cynicism and imaginative descriptive observations that are impossible not to laugh out loud at. ...[T]he pace ... may cause viewers to marvel at the amount of content intricately packed into those sole 30 minutes." Ashley Jacob (Suite101®)