Mar 13

Summary for : How TV Ruined Your Life – Knowledge

Charlie Brooker traces how the presentation of factual TV programmes has developed over the years, changing their focus from experts in spectacles to celebrity hosts. The Screenwipe satirist provides his thoughts on archive material including Danny Dyer’s encounter with an alien, and supernatural activity involving famous faces.source:LocateTv.com

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Mar 06

Summary for : How TV Ruined Your Life – Progress

Screenwipe satirist Charlie Brooker examines how TV has influenced the audience’s relationship with technology, detailing how programmes such as classic sci-fi show Blake’s 7 and CSI: Miami have influenced expectations and altered perceptions of progress.source:LocateTv.com

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Mar 06

Summary for : How TV Ruined Your Life – Love

Screenwipe satirist Charlie Brooker uses archive material and sketches to examine whether programmes such as Blind Date and romantic comedies have influenced the viewing public’s expectations of love, and questions the concept of ‘soulmates’, as seen on TV.source:LocateTv.com

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Feb 21

Summary for : How TV Ruined Your Life – Aspiration

Screenwipe satirist Charlie Brooker uses archive material and sketches to debunk the desirable lifestyles promoted by popular TV programmes, demonstrating how far removed they are from the average viewer’s experience of life.source:LocateTv.com

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Feb 03

Summary for : How TV Ruined Your Life – The Lifecycle

Charlie Brooker mixes sketches and archive footage to explore how TV has the capacity to infuriate people of all ages, using various children’s shows and Countdown to illustrate his point.source:LocateTv.com

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Jan 26

Summary for : How TV Ruined Your Life – Fear

Screenwipe satirist Charlie Brooker reveals how concepts such as love and success often fall short of the mark when depicted on-screen. He begins by exploring themes of fear, including ominous public information films and grisly crime dramas. Features archive material from film and television, as well as sketches and interviews that illustrate the extent of the gulf that exists between fiction and realitysource:LocateTv.com

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