Dead Set

I'd like to take this opportunity to enthuse wildly over Charlie Brooker's forthcoming series, 'Dead Set'. It starts tomorrow on E4. I'm a big Brooker fan - his journalism regularly makes me chuckle, Nathan Barley is an incredible creation and Screen Wipe is just devastatingly wonderful - so I'm quite giddy with excitement about this.

But there are two major reasons why I probably shouldn't be:

Firstly, Brooker has made it clear it's not just a comedy with a bit of a zombie backdrop, but it's going to be genuinely gory horror. In his Guardian article about it, he made this point particularly clear, stating: "I sincerely hope some of you vomit."
And if anyone does, it'll be me. I'm pretty squeamish, regularly feel queasy when channel-hopping past Holby City, and this is probably not the sort of thing I'd normally watch.

Probably more importantly, I don't yet know how I'm actually going to see the show. We still only have FOUR channels in my house. It's like the dark ages, or 1996. And I'm not sure if it'll be on 4od, because I can't get that either - I have a mac. I am technologically incompatible with Charlie Brooker. And so, although it's unsupportive, I'm going to have to hope some unscrupulous technical genius makes it available to download somewhere or watch on youtube.

Maybe, because I wish nothing but joy and success upon him, I'll buy the DVD when it comes out. But I refer you back to point one for the reason why I need to check I can endure more than 20 seconds of it before investing actual money.