Charlie Brooker - Dawn of the Dumb

[Fez of Mahrez]

Love it.

Snippet (about ex-Hollyoaks "actor" Paul Danan's appearance in Celebrity Love Island):

Sob for Danan, who is a bell end of considerable magnitude, and the ugliest person on the island - ugly in a unique fashion, like a man whose face was heading toward "handsome", but took a wrong turn at the last minute. He looks like Jude Law crossed with the Crazy Frog, and he's an absolute aching backside. The only way the producers could possibly justify his presence would be to spike his cocktails till he goes mad and has sex with a melon or something. But that's not going to happen, because that would be fun, and Love Island isn't about fun. If it was about fun, they'd go the whole hog: call it Celebrity fook Hut and send paratroopers in to force them to form a grunting, humping human daisy-chain. It's not about fun, it's about despair, remember?

I read Screen Burn every single week and it's as part of my Saturday ritual as LCFC.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Can't wait for the new series of Screenwipe.

[Anorak]

Fantastic book. Read it on holiday and was regularly laughing out loud.

[Bellend Sebastian]

I've got it and I was really enjoying it until I realised that a lot of the pages of mine are mixed up. It shouldn't be a big deal, being as it's all separate articles, but as they are supposed to be in chronological order it doesn't flow very well. I must get another copy sometime.

ANYWAY

The good news is that for some strange reason two of his early and very wonderful websites are still up and running, a full half decade since he put anything on them. If you've not seen them before, well worth a look. My TVgohome book is one of my most treasured possessions.

http://www.tvgohome.com/

http://www.zeppotron.com/unnovations/

[Flynny]

TV go home is absolutely fantastic. I read his guardian column on the internet when I can (or occasionally when I can be arsed to buy a paper with stuff to read in it) but not much else. What am I missing?

[Bellend Sebastian]

The Nathan Barley TV programme was pretty brilliant, although not to everyone's tastes, admittedly

[James.]

On the Daily Mail's approach to censorship in light of the (now booooooooring) Brand/Ross affair:

Perhaps next week it will produce a free sheet of asterisk stickers for readers to plaster over their own genitals, lest they catch sight of them in a mirror and indignantly vomit themselves into a coma.

Brilliant.