If you are a fan of the Guardian Guide's Screen Burn TV column then were you watching BBC4 last night?
If you weren't then you missed a televisual treat with Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe. Brooker is also the writer behind TV Go Home - a spoof TV listings service.
Now I don't want to go all Ricky Gervais on you, so I'd like to add that, although we work for the same organisation, I have never met Brooker. And if I wasn't a Guardianista, I would still love his column and now his show.
But enough of that, I'm just using Brooker as a launchpad for another thought. Brooker used his show to randomly plug his favourite shows (The Shield, The Wire and something else). He doesn't like Lost (for once he's wrong).
I'd just like to use this opportunity to big up Sports Night on abc1. If you're a fan of West Wing or Desperate Housewives or Six Feet Under you should watch this show, if only to see your favourites before they were famous. Created by Aaron Sorkin (WW) and starring Joshua Malina (WW), Felicity Huffman (DH) and Peter Krause (SFU). The final ever episode even stars the actor who became the West Wing's very own nice guy from the FBI.
And while we are on the subject of the West Wing (and there are still people posting on our Best Ever West Wing blog), the very end of the show might be in sight, but it is going to be a treat. The final episodes will feature Rob Lowe, Mary-Louise Parker, Emily Procter, Timothy Busfield (no relation) and Annabeth Gish reprising their roles.
And now, to return to Screen Wipe:
Clip of Psychic TV presenter finishing his phone number plug: "Call double seven, double seven. What are you waiting for?"
Brooker: "You're the psychic - you tell me."
