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" Charlie Brooker has defended his BBC Two show Weekly Wipe. A Twitter user branded the programme &amp;quot;lazy&amp;quot; after Brooker announced that tonight&amp;#039;s (February 13) sixth episode would be a compilation of previously aired footage, as well as new material.  Brooker tweeted: &amp;quot;We do 5 regular eps then a comp ep because that&amp;#039;s what we&amp;#039;re commissioned to do, btw. So the &amp;#039;new&amp;#039; stuff is on the house. THAT&amp;#039;S MY SPIN.&amp;quot; The broadcaster then shared a comment he had received from a follower, which read: &amp;quot;F**king hate it when people do that. Lazy. I will not be watching.&amp;quot;  Brooker joked: &amp;quot;We chiefly do the comp for the positive viewer feedback.&amp;quot; In a series of tweets, he went on to explain that for a longer run of the series to be possible, they would have to greatly expand the production team and alter the show&amp;#039;s format.  He said: &amp;quot;To produce the material we currently do takes 7 days flat out and often means long nights etc. &amp;quot;You have to factor in time it takes to watch &amp;amp;amp; sift through hours of news footage etc before you can write a section, for instance Something like Daily Show must have huge team of researchers, writers, producers etc to generate several new mins of material nightly. &amp;quot;Our show is v diff beast and is chiefly assembled in edit suites throughout the week.... To do a *much* longer run we&amp;#039;d prob have to cut back on the number of sections I do per ep.  &amp;quot;Essentially there&amp;#039;s nothing stopping a UK Daily Show, but the Wipe &amp;#039;format&amp;#039; isn&amp;#039;t conducive to that kind of nightly volume.&amp;quot; Brooker added that after the current series, he expects the show to return at the end of 2014 for its annual New Year special. Channel 4&amp;#039;s head of comedy Phil Clarke recently suggested that Brooker&amp;#039;s Black Mirror could return for a one-off film later this year. Charlie Brooker&amp;#039;s Weekly Wipe airs tonight at 10pm on BBC Two. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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