I found this bit in the guardian article to be amusing:

“I had to stop doing TVGoHome,” Brooker admits, “because the real TV programmes were becoming more stupid than any I could make up.”

So true.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/10/nathan-barley-charlie-brooker-east-london-comedy

NB was co-made by Christopher Morris, and I don’t know how well known he is in the US, but he’s been skewering the media for years. He’s probably most recognisable these days for FOUR LIONS, a funny but sad movie about hapless domestic terrorists in London.

If you want a blast from Morris’s past, you could try and get your hands on THE DAY TODAY (parody of the BBC evening news that drew complaints from “people” who mistook it for the real thing, presumably very briefly), BRASS EYE (parody of TV current affairs broadcasting that drew complaints from actual celebrities who didn’t notice they were being lured into making fools of themselves), and JAM/BLUE JAM, a surreal sketch show that tightrope-walked over being outright horror of the bleak, emotionally disturbing kind. By which I mean “I loved it”, btw.

Brass Eye’s “Science” episode also contained an impersonation of Stephen Hawkins that would make Eddie Redmayne wet his knickers.

Last but not least, and back on Charlie B, you might fancy flicking though “TV Go Home”, a mocked up TV guide. It’s styled after the Radio Times, the BBC’s program listings magazine – and you’ll find Nathan Barley’s first appearance within its pages (text NSFW, probably, but the boss might not notice).

http://www.tvgohome.com/

Erm. Okay, I think I’m done flag-waving for CB now.

You may go about your business. Move along.

But yeah, the show is not for everyone. I thought the clone episode was especially disturbing, but more in a creepy, as opposed to gross, kinda way.

http://www.theguardian.com/profile/charliebrooker

Your said “Charlie Brooker is a popular purveyor of sour snark in the UK.” And I was like, hrm, he sounds like my kind of bloke. Your comments prompted me to look up Brooker on Wikipedia. It says that his style has a consistent “satirical pessimism.” All that makes me like him more because I like that style. One of my favorite shows is South Park, which has a somewhat similar style. I’m too bitter of a person to gravitate toward syrupy stuff. Hurhur.

It doesn’t look like Brooker’s other stuff is on Netflix (yet). Poo. Oh well, maybe in the near, hopefully not too-dystopian, future.

Charlie Brooker is a popular purveyor of sour snark in the UK. His regular series SCREEN WIPE (now “Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe”) has been poking the world (and often the international media) with a sharp, poisonous stick for some years now, and he provides a similar service via a regular column one of our papers, The Guardian. Always bitter, always funny.

He spun the original series out into a couple of sister shows: NEWS WIPE is news media focused, obv., and he also does an end-of-the-year special called “Charlie Brooker’s 201X Wipe”, reminding us what we cried at (with laughter, with disgust, etc.) during that particular year. He was originally a video games journalist, amongst other things, and in 2013 had a great TV documentary called “How Video Games Changed the World” that is well worth a look if you can find it.

As well as BLACK MIRROR, he’s also branched out with a few other “dramatic” projects. DEAD SET was a mini-series in which the hated, hate-filled Big Brother house was the last safe place in England after the traditional zombie outbreak. NATHAN BARLEY was a cringe-inducing comedy about new media hipsters at a trendy London style magazine (which I remain unable to watch without defenestrating my television). And A TOUCH OF CLOTH is a parody of detective serials in which everyone talks in trope-codes that play off the clichés of the genre (and, often, sink deep into innuendo).