Hurrah! Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe is back, and the first episode featured Ian Rowland, the acknowledged master of cold reading. He was part of a sequence that tore into one of the most exploitative programmes currently being made – Psychic Private Eyes – in which vulnerable people are told complete bollocks by so-called psychics who are effectively lying to their “victims” whilst making entertainment programmes at the same time.
Oh, and in today’s Guardian Brooker writes about why he hates Macs. Sit back and wait for the flack. He’s completely right of course!