Movies and TV shows like Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe

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Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe (2013)
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Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe is a British television review programme created and presented by Charlie Brooker. It is the most recent addition to Brooker's Wipe series, and the first to be broadcast in HD. The programme is an amalgam of the earlier Wipe series, with reviews of current televisions programmes, news events, games, and films. The programme was commissioned by the BBC in November 2012, with six episodes ordered. It began airing on 31 January 2013, and was broadcast simultaneously on BBC Two and BBC HD.
Style: humorous, realistic, talky, clever, cynical, suspense, witty, semi serious, biting, fast ...
Plot: satire, media circus, media satire, dark humor, advertising, society, media, power of media, humour, sketch, politically correct, archive footage, ratings, british humour, tv show
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, witty and not serious films and TV series with plots about satire, media, british humour, humour, media satire, sketch and workplace mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe: Dead Ringers (2002), Harry Hill's TV Burp (2001), Absolute Power (2003), The Chaser's War on Everything (2006), The Day Today (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dead Ringers (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Dead Ringers is a United Kingdom radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It starred Jon ...
Style: humorous, not serious, cynical, talky, witty ...
Plot: satire, media satire, politics, state affairs, artists and showbiz, society, joke, comedy team, humour, media, disorder, celebrity culture ...
Time: 21st century
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Harry Hill's TV Burp (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Harry Hill's TV Burp is a British television comedy programme that ran for 11 years from 2001 to 2012. It was produced by Avalon Television for ITV and hosted by comedian Harry Hill. The show presents a look at the week's television, ...
Style: not serious, witty, humorous, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: media satire, entertainment, media, satire, comedian, british, fight, joke, sketch, british humour, studio, archive footage
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england
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Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Famous DJ Alan Partridge gives us an insight into what happens behind the microphone at North Norfolk digital radio.
Style: not serious, clever, humorous, talky, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, goofy hero, artists and showbiz, media, workplace situations, disorder, radio station, recording studio, satire, humour, newscaster, radio show ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Absolute Power (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Stephen Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe as they bring the popular and satirical Radio 4 comedy Absolute Power to BBC Two. Stephen as Prentiss and John as McCabe are an unscrupulous pair who run the blue chip ...
Style: sitcom, witty, semi serious, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: media, workplace, manipulation, scandal, celebrity, politics, cover up, power of media, campaign, media satire, workplace situations, showbiz ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london
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The Chaser's War on Everything (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: The Chaser's War on Everything was an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television station ABC1. It has won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Television Comedy Series. ...
Style: humorous, realistic, cynical, clever, not serious ...
Plot: satire, comedian, society, social problems, friends, media, dark humor, politician, disorder, prank, mishap, sketch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: This British satire skewers mindless media culture as it follows the brazen schemes of Vivienne Vyle (Jennifer Saunders), a daytime talk show host who never met a guest she wouldn't exploit to further her own career. As Vivienne watches her ...
Style: parody, witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: satire, tv host, showbiz, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, farce, exploitation, media, social problems, social relations, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
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The Day Today (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes, broadcast in 1994, and created by the comedians Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris. It is an adaptation of the radio programme On the Hour, which was broadcast on BBC ...
Style: parody, humorous, political, sketch comedy, sitcom ...
Plot: satire, sketch, political satire, humour, journalism, current affairs, politically correct, state affairs, media, politics, media satire, cliche ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Moving Wallpaper is a British satirical comedy-drama television series set in a TV production unit. It ran on ITV for two series in 2008–2009. The subject of the first series was the production of a soap called Echo Beach, each episode of which ...
Style: semi serious, clever, witty, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: workplace, workplace situations, artists and showbiz, media, opera, television producer, network, ratings, british humour
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
Style: sketch comedy, sitcom, parody, mockumentary, not serious ...
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Country: UK
TV show
Story: Drop the Dead Donkey is a situation comedy that first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1998. It is set in the offices of “GlobeLink News”, a fictional TV news company. Recorded close to transmission, it made use of ...
Style: sitcom, dark comedy, political, witty, humorous ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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Style: postmodern, surreal, not serious, cynical, humorous ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: The Fast Show is a multi BAFTA award winning sketch comedy show written and produced by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson.
Style: sketch comedy, animated comedy, hilarious, sitcom, fast ...
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Place: england
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Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Good God is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which premiered in April 2012 on HBO Canada. The show follows the life of character George Findlay, a role that Ken Finkleman reprised from The Newsroom and subsequent television projects. The ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, cynical, biting
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
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Duration: 30 min.
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Duration: 30 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
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Story: In late-'80s Britain, Porterhouse College Cambridge is an anachronism, its students uniformly male and (in the vast number of cases) privately educated. When the incumbent Master dies (from a stroke brought on by overeating) the government ...
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Duration: 23 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ...
Style: sketch comedy, humorous, sitcom, absurd, political ...
Audience: kids
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Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: england
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That's So Weird! (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
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Story: That's So Weird was a Canadian sketch comedy television show owned by the Halifax Film Company and was broadcast on YTV. The show has been described as SCTV or Mad TV for teenagers and includes an array of comedic skits.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Audience: kids
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Place: canada
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Controversial spoof of current-affairs TV and the role of celebrity in the UK.
Style: parody, controversial, humorous, sitcom, absurd ...
Plot: satire, sketch, journalism, humour, current affairs, fake news report, interview, celebrity, controversy, media, political humor, campaign ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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The New Statesman (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
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Story: The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. It was written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran at the request of, and as a starring vehicle for, its principal actor, Rik ...
Style: sitcom, dark comedy, political, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot: politics, satire, political satire, greed, sketch, conservative, parliament, politician, british politics, campaign, workplace romance, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: yorkshire, northern england, europe, england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Big Train is a surreal British television comedy sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, writers of the successful sitcom Father Ted. The first series was broadcast on BBC Two in 1998, while the second, in which Linehan was not ...
Style: sketch comedy, sitcom, surreal, absurd, fast ...
Plot: sketch, humour, comedian, absurdism, silly humor, disorder, satire, british, social satire, absurd humor, surrealism, irreverence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A British newscaster moves to Los Angeles with his alcoholic manservant and the baggage of several failed marriages to host a sanctimonious talk show.
Style: not serious, cynical, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot: media satire, media, journalism, silly humor, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, workplace, talk show host, bittersweet, satire, behind the scenes, talk show
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A Bit of Fry & Laurie is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast on both BBC1 and BBC2 between 1989 and 1995. It ran for four series and ...
Style: sketch comedy, humorous, clever, witty, mind blowing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sketch, humour, asexual, comedian, musician, satire, silly humor, artists and showbiz, media, yuppie, surrealism, absurdism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: england, europe
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the ...
Style: political, biting, cynical, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: satire, monty python, politics, nudity, manipulation, disorder, ambition, dishonesty, media, rise to the top, head of state, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england
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The Catherine Tate Show (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Catherine Tate Show is a British television sketch comedy written by Catherine Tate and Aschlin Ditta. Tate also stars in all but one of the show's sketches, which feature a wide range of characters. The Catherine Tate Show airs on BBC Two ...
Style: humorous, not serious, witty, realistic, sketch comedy ...
Plot: comedian, lifestyle, youth, working class, society, workplace, social misfits, workplace situations, best friend, humour, girl power, sketch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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Twenty Twelve (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Twenty Twelve is a BBC television comedy series written and directed by John Morton. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Amelia Bullmore, the programme is a spoof on-location documentary following the organisation of the 2012 Summer Olympics ...
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: satire, workplace situations, nothing goes right, boss and employee, secretary, disorder, power relations, team, olympics, boss, workplace, loner ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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I'm Alan Partridge (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: I'm Alan Partridge is a BBC situation comedy starring Steve Coogan, of which two series of six episodes each were produced — the first in 1997 and the second in 2002. The series followed the titular Alan Partridge, a failed television ...
Style: sitcom, laugh out loud, hilarious, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: satire, radio, sketch, humour, everyday life, celebrity culture, hotel, fan, hapless, showbiz, guest, comeback ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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Yes, Prime Minister (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - No. 10. Could this have possibly have been managed by his trusted Permanent Private ...
Style: sitcom, political, political thriller, satirical, not serious ...
Plot: satire, psychology, economist, lawyer, political satire, humour, international relations, government, british prime minister, political humor, staff, responsibility ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, britain, europe, united kingdom
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