Across the course of four devastating tweets, Charlie Brooker managed to comprehensively ruin what remains of 2017.
This very afternoon, Charlie Brooker took to Twitter to announce that there will be no Screenwipe to cover the events of 2017, despite making a long-standing commitment to creating another super-dry assessment of the year past.
Brooker cited his current backlog of work as the reason for the late cancellation of his annual cathartic scream into the abyss, not – as many initially suspected – late on-set PTSD from his heroic attempt to make sense of 2016.
Anyway, here is the announcement in Brooker’s own words…
Got some good news and bad news. Bad news is no 2017 Wipe. Was set to do it but ran out of road. Am way behind on scripts / dev elsewhere and contrary to my optimistic delusions it turns out I can’t do 400 things at once. [1/3]
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) 27 November 2017
The good news (or bad news depending on POV) is we’ve just delivered CUNK ON BRITAIN (a 5-part history of our glorious nation starring Philomena) to the BBC, and that will be on *soon*. [2/3]
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) 27 November 2017
More good news to follow soon. That’s it! Now enjoy Christmas / life / Royal Wedding mania. [3/3]
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) 27 November 2017
(Just to add, Cunk on Britain covers the WHOLE of British history from the Big Bang to Brexit. In five half-hourly chunks.) [4/3]
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) 27 November 2017
As the last of those messages points out, we will be getting a healthy dose of Diane Morgan’s quite wonderful Philomena Cunk ‘soon’, and presumably a lot of on-time Brooker-created content in 2018. That, of course, will include the fourth season of his sci-fi/scary-as-hell anthology, Black Mirror.