It's strange, looking back at Charlie Brooker's career. For years, he was pretty much anonymous. You knew his name, but he always hid his face. Years ago, TV Scoop even 'unmasked' him. Now, there's no need as he's on our telly, all proper and presenting stuff. Of course, it would've been a disaster if he'd made a load of rubbish shows. Thankfully, he's as good on screen as he is in print. So with that, you'll be pleased to learn that Brooker is getting a new show, which is a spin-off of his BBC Four show Screenwipe. This time, it's the news that's getting a kicking in a six parter called Charlie Brooker's News Wipe.

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News Wipe will air on BBC Four in the spring and is billed as a "funny, thoughtful and scabrous digest of recent news events". Brooker said: "This is new territory for me - I'm no current affairs expert. Just like, I suspect, many people, when I tune into the news I often feel like I've wandered into episode 389 of the world's most complex soap opera. So it's also about me trying to make sense of a bewildering and often bloody stupid world."

An Endemol spokeswoman said the new series would "expose the inner workings of news media, just as Screenwipe does to TV in general. News Wipe will take a look at the brilliant or preposterous way the news is presented to us. There will also be experts on hand to pick apart certain stories and analyse the news media's obsessions."

This. This is going to be brilliant.