Comedy series in which Charlie Brooker uses a mix of sketches and jaw-dropping archive footage to explore the gulf between real life and television

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6/6 Charlie Brooker looks at how TV's notion of knowledge has sunk to celebrity drivel.

Thu 18 Apr 2013 22:00 BBC Two

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  • About How TV Ruined Your Life

    About How TV Ruined Your Life

    Ever wondered why life doesn't measure up to those youthful lofty expectations?

    From love and money to fear and progress, Charlie Brooker explores a different universal theme each week as this six-part series attempts to explain where it all went wrong and just how wildly the TV and movie ideal differs from life's grim reality.

    Marking the point where the mad daydreams of TV and the sorry reality of real life collide, the series employs a mixture of archive footage, sketches and interviews that will have you wiping away tears of laughter while nodding in recognition, which means you’ll probably have your eye out if you’re not careful.

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    Worried it might be running out of nasty real-life incidents to recreate, TV has started visually speculating about bad stuff that hasn’t happened, but might with programmes like the one in this sketch.

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