Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - end credit squeeze

[MsBkirk]

It gets me a lot on the Dave channel when I want to see who did the music.  Likewise BBC-3 recently shrunk the end credits of 'Son Of Rambow' to indecipherability, but someone did confirm me that Neil Dudgeon did portray Jessica Hynes's fancy man in the film.

[boydegg]

I always enjoyed singing along to the end credits of Fools and Horses.

Got some Trevor Francis track suits, from a mush in Shepard's Bush BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH

[TheWaffleman54]

LOL at 4:21

[asulei]

sick on a widow sounds like the greatest and most alarming show there ever could be.

[TheLucasMichaels]

You British viewers are lucky compared to here in U.S. We usually don't even get to see even 1 second of a programs closing credits before they squeeze and mute them to advertise shows that they already advertised during the commercial's over and over. Its awful! When I even get to hear 2 notes of a programs end theme. I always Imagine that some poor person working at the network is about to lose their job. Head of network: "I just heard and saw 3 whole seconds of the credits, you are fired!"

[JPearson1987]

Adverts make me change channel more than the credits.

[ASobsessive]

@JPearson1987 same here, but the credit squeezing makes me switch off :P

[Insubordinate90]

Didn't expect to see the St. James' Church corner on the show! It sure is a fine specimen of the corner, a pity its elegance and beauty were neigh ignored for further iterations of that magical 90 degree angle, so often taken for granted yet with cultural and social significance on an immeasurable scale.

[editedbyfailure]

oh, im viewer 37,000

[NAPKINSMUSIC]

"rapped"



[missswearify]

When i watch a programme on the telly i often have something else in mind for afterwards and will very rarely watch whatever is advertised. When they do this it does feel like something of an insult to my intelligence but only thick people will succumb to their powers of persuations. It really is the intrusion upon personal choice that is most infuriating, assuming that we will decide to stick the BBC because yes, they are rather educational/enternating whilst 'Derren Browning' us in the process

[PushingPies]

"Pick it up. Pick it fucking up!"

Charlie Brooker makes my dreams of revenge a (semi) reality.

[SPeacock]

@PushingPies We need Charlie Brooker to run for Prime Minister. :)

[Applemask]

Like this *PRICK*

[cyborgtroy]

wtf I wanted to hear about the corners charlie

[kurooneko]

What? no end credits?

[radiodarkhorse]

Victoria is FIT

[MacraStraba]

The latest season of Sick On A Widow is the worst yet. I hope they cancel that horrendous show.

[DynamicScherzo]

Could someone tell me the name of the music at 00:45? Thanks

[pauldve]

@DynamicScherzo Perpetuum Mobile

[DJKrisopolis]

@TheKaranovic It's 45:33 by LCD Soundsystem. Also turns up in Gameswipe, if I remember correctly.

[josephdrew87]

I would totally watch that A History of Corners with Victoria Coren programme

[TheKaranovic]

What is the name of the song starting at 2:24?

[FeedsNoSliesMusic]

It's funny because even watching HIGNFY on demand the credits had narration over them to say what was next.

[Pepotamo1985]

3 people got roughed up by Charlie Brooker

[DarkKnightBob1o1]

LOL @ the ending

[steinhoffski]

haha i love vicky coren/charlie brooker

[099749]

He might have a point, I know lets do a credits channel on sky

[chocomog35]

SIck on a WIdow would get my view. Also, VIctoria Coren, I've got a corner you can....yeah *inserts sexual thingymajig*.

[chocomog35]

Sick on a Widow would get my view.

[Whatupwidat]

I loved the episode before this where he stood in protest at this stuff, saluting with a duct-tape Hitler moustache as the German national anthem played. I laughed for about ten minutes.

[johnson9dantheman]

At least when I watch shows like NCIS on the FOX channel, I like how they *never, ever* do anything to interrupt the closing credits; all the do is a voice-over of whats up next.

[LoStInMyMiNd321]

@johnson9dantheman But that voiceover is exactly what he's ranting about. things interrupting breathing space to say what's up next.

[smpowis]

We need the credits to Bottom at the end of every tv show. If you watched two men beat one another up, you'd sit there until the end of time.

[VulpisFoxfire]

Ahhhmen, Charlie! It's especially annoying when there's actually *stuff of interest* in the ending credits, like what's going on behind them, or 'joke' credits that are impossible to see because of the squeeze--not so common in regular shows, but more so on movies that get the same squeeze.

[Substantive64]

I don't know when or where it started,but it started in the US in 1994. They stopped running the credits the usual way, and put them over to one side,where it takes up about a quarter of the picture,and rater than run the music that usualy accompanies the end of a show,they run the little epilogue of the episode,or show some bit for an upcoming show. But,when they run in syndication,they run the traditional-end-credits-with-t­heme-music-style of the past.

[MrSargeSays]

The French never do it. Whenever I watch TV5MONDE on Sky and a show finishes the credits never squeeze. They only tell you what's on next when the credits end, just like the olden days!

HOW DARE THE BBC PUT A CARTOON VERSION OF THAT GAY WEST-BRIT TOSSER NORTON OVER MATT SMITH'S FACE LAST SATURDAY!

And they wonder why certain Tories want them dead.

[TedShatner10]

A huge boo at the BBC for incorrectly thinking they're FOX Network and assume we're fucking idiots who are unable to look up the programme scheduling!

[camydoger]

The BBC decided to take this to a whole new level with Graham Norton parading around the screen DURING the climax of Doctor Who.

I'm sure Moffat is screaming at someone down the phone right now.

[ChainsawSpainiard]

the cheery clown pimping the cormac mcarthy novel makes me laugh every time i see this

[oscarelgy]

good old charlie, telling it as it is. can anybody tell me what the music is for victorias corner show? cheers

[11235RS]

@oscarelgy

perpetuum mobile by Penguin Cafe Orchestra

[vampireman25]

wonder if anyone changed the channel when the credits came up.....

[findnpost]

you can only have one fuck a series or an episode... im sure Charlie, will tell us why in a later screenwipe. So for this series that's your fucking lot!

[pidgin]

I'd be as angry as Brooker if I got to meet the person (or focus group) who abolished our end credits!!

Come on BBC, sort it out

[MrSyrett]

"sick on a widow" - Im suprised channel 5 havent snapped that up

[Blacknarcissa]

Omg, I'd be shitscared if Charlie started a fight with me. Look at the aggression at the end! xD

[UnleashtheFiore]

Nothing annoyed me more than with the recent series of Torchwood with its brilliant cliffhangers, and some twat talked over it as soon as the end credits rolled. I was like 'Ianto just died you bellend give him a few minutes at least!'

[crashbandicoot62]

agree entirely

[CrownedWithLaurels]

OMG I AGREE SO MUCH IT HURTS

I mean ah... yeah.

[camydoger]

The very last "fuck" isn't censored.

[Nogli]

The greatest opening of a show ever, welcome... bye!

[sammykaine]

the marketing fella's pretty fit without the specs.

[rasmusfribble]

Charlie looks bloody scary with glasses on.

[joepickard]

ahh, just like tv go home

the gossamer kiss of internet nostalgia, i think i'm nursing a semi just thinking about it

[iRepEast]

Lol, i was expecting a racial joke there...

[Preistguyproductions]

Horay for fucking corners

[Anarchypartways]

what series is this?

[AnRK1936]

Anyone know what the tune is from the "history of corners" intro? Screenwipe's given me a genuine interest in classical music amongst other more cynical values...

[Art7220]

You can tell it's fake because she said "Barry Shitpeas". Great name and I'm sure it's a fake name too. It sounds too good, you know.

Notice at the end how when Charlie's kicking that man around, there's nothing in the corner yet a few seconds later, a satellite dish pops up there. Well, a shadow of it.

[VacantL00k]

No sht sherlock.

Maybe the program name 'sick on a widow' is a clue too....

[shitcasecinema]

Old credits are better.

[jbs4em]

the up next harry potter clown made me laugh for far too long

[CWFF08]

I have wondered for so long who Mykola Pawluk was. And I thought it was a woman.

[jacktindale]

What is the music for the "History of Corners" segment called? I've always liked it but never remember the name?

[AdamfMc]

That would be Perpetuum Mobile, by Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Brooker probably used it precisely because it's so overused.

[jacktindale]

Many thanks, it had been bugging me for ages!

[ukstreetracer]

he is one angry dude!

[seehispugnosedface]

i fancy victoria coren

[valjester805]

@seehispugnosedface You must be a man or a lesbian.

[MrTeatime]

BARRY SHITPEAS

[alexhamster1134]

@MrTeatime shut up

[kisbie]

I always used to think I was the only one who wondered who the omnipotent Ken Morse was.

Also, anyone remember on Whose Line is it Anyway? when Greg Proops heckled the end credits: "Hey Mykola Pawluk, buy some vowels!"

[cartdoesnotmoveself]

i wanted to see that show about corners :(

[rasmusfribble]

AM 180 BY GRANDADDY

[Mysterious0Bob]

I hate it when I want to see the credits of a film to see who was in it and they use credit squeeze to advertise something with a two-word title. No damn excuse.

[richiesherman]

Yeah, hooray for fucking corners - go on, piss off!

LOL

[markess1981]

It's even worse when a bloody message for what's coming up next appears in the last 5 to 10 minutes of a programme. Stop shoving your crass advertising down our throats you whores!

[TheWizardOfBonk]

Hahaha the ending is fucking genius

[MarcusTheReverent]

whats that piano song called about a minute in?

[billthedonkey]

penguin cafe I think, or it might be black beauty

[valjester805]

@MarcusTheReverent It's Perpetuum Mobile by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

[WorldNews92]

...-- and ironically, channels like Sky One and Five are not as bad at this kind of disaster as ITV and the BBC.

[SPeacock]

Charlie should be given his own TV station! :)

[WorldNews92]

...those who do enjoy the credits become frustrated. Also, nowardays, it seems that with some show's storylines being nothing short of dismal and pathetic, the closing credits are far more appealing than the actual show. Having said all this, the BBC are not actually as bad as ITV, since the BBC still retain the actuall credits (even if they do push them into the corner of the screen), but ITV scrap the credits for promos and adverts -- EXACTLY like American television, only done more cheaply...

[WorldNews92]

The credits are the best bit of the programme, because it acknowledges the output and input of all the people involved in that programme, and as this person said, it improves the aesthetics of the programme. To use a similar analogy to one used in this video, you wouldn't read a book that had the covers ripped off of them, so why would you watch a programme with no opening and closing credits? If some people hate the credits or find them boring, by all means change the channel, but do not let...

[billybassman21]

I can think of about 5 people where I work I would like to do that to. (talking about the end)

[MuffinsTheMule]

the programme at 2:20 was made in 1977, I am THAT sad ^_^

[cyberdog321]

Did you mean at II:XX? :-)

[cyberdog321]

Why didn't that appear as a reply to MuffinsTheMule? I clicked the Reply link...

[thenextpope]

charlie brooker should be head of the bbc that or primeminster!

[wh5916]

I was unaware that BBC had resorted to this type of annoyance until watching episode 10 of last year's "Doctor Who" series a few days back, from a file recorded off of BBC One that a friend had sent me.

It's sad to see BBC showing signs of sinking to the level of American television, which in recent years has been reduced to a carnival of ads and promos.

[hanso815]

That was surreal there when Charlie reappears and pushes her out. XD

[deanward2006]

What's the point of even having credits at the end of the programme now seeing as the credit squeeze has made them unreadable?!

I love reading the credits at the end of a show.

[DarthJedi2005]

You know, you can't help but agree with him! The credit squeeze is awful!

[SnarkLicker]

I think the people involved in the making of a show should start suing broadcast networks for making it so that nobody can see their names in the credits anymore. That's just BS. Those people work hard and they deserve to be recognized for it, even if it is just for the five seconds it takes their names to scroll up the screen.

[elkhadi]

WOO! The desperate clown at 03:13 is waving The Road around! Woo.

I love this show. :D

[BadlanAlun]

Cormac McArthy! Whoo-hoo!

[funktimusrhyme]

"that was Wuthering Heights, up next Harry Potter followed By Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." that's a pretty eclectic evening's reading right there.

[thegodsallsuck]

I love the use of penguin cafe orchestra as incidental background music. It's one of the most shockingly overused pieces in television

[Zoomy]

Any idea what the name of the track was?

[RustiSwordz]

Thing is hes so right!

[SPeacock]

Rostrum camera is a camera which allows CGI / hand-drawn animated characters to be integrated seamlessly into a live-action environment.

The movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" made extensive use of this.

[notbubu]

By far the most common usage for Rostrum cameras was for the display of still photographs in documentries. You know those bits where you'd see a photo of someone and it'd slowly zoom in. It's basically a camera pointing down from above at a table. And you seemingly had to be called Ken Morse to be able to use one.

[boiledelephant]

Dude! Why are all the clever literate people coming out of the woodwork here, where it doesn't matter? Where have you BEEN while I lost my sanity to the rabid all-caps hordes of the youtube userbase, breaking my skull against the wall of their stupidity?!

[krist69]

no worries, i've found out, it's LCD Soundsystem - Someone great.

[shayhtfc]

Nice one... I was just thinking the same. It's in my collection, but that's like trying to find a book in a library when you don't have a clue where to start!!

[krist69]

anyone know what the song is called that kicks in about 2:25?

[MagicNaters]

Hahaha, nice one Charlie! I do like the BBC, as it's one of the main channels I grew up watching but it can be a right old plonker at times can't it?

I should start watching Screenwipe, looks like an ace show :P

[funksocks]

Having been in on of the meetings (at the end of this bit), I must say *that* is why I left the BBC.

People have a pretty crap life and want to be entertained, not arsed-about like a commodity.

Thanks Charlie.

By the way, 'Aunty' (herself) is actually putting content like this on You Tube now.

[CakeorDeath44]

I love the idea of a show about corners! It is scarily like BBC 4.

[VideoJunkei]

US tv has done the credit squeeze for years, it sucks if you want to see/hear the theme song!

[3zy]

Remember, some shows "fixed" that by doing away with theme songs. And we're the industry model Brit TV is pushing for now...I weep for the death of the spirit that implies.

[idfarren7]

Charlie's show is the only thing I still watch on telly.

[crashbandicoot62]

isnt it ironic that you watch a show about television when you dont watch it? lol

[necronom426]

Brilliant! I agree with everything he said. I like the credits, and it annoys me a lot when they get talked over and shrunk. It's the same with those annoying graphics advertising the next show, they appear in the middle of the show and have on occasion blocked out subtitles etc.

It should be illegal to mess with a TV show or film. If I was a TV production company I'd have them sign a contract saying that to show it they can't touch it in any way.

[putthetellyon]

Absolutely blinding piece of television.