Clive James On Television
Clive James
06 April 2017
9781509832439704 pages
Synopsis
His best in one volume, Clive James On Television includes all Clive James's treasured TV criticism, originally written for The Observer between the years 1972 and 1982.
From the 1972 Olympics to the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest, here is a decade of the most trenchant, witty and thought-provoking criticism of any kind, with a foreword from Clive James himself, described as 'the funniest man in Britain'.
This volume incorporates three collections: Visions Before Midnight, The Crystal Bucket and Glued to the Box.
James reinvented the style of TV criticism. Described by Sheridan Morley as 'far and away the funniest writer in regular Fleet Street employment', James was the first critic to prostrate himself before the flow of the medium in all its manifestationsTime Out
The funniest writer in BritainSunday Times
One of the few columnists who makes you laugh aloud . . . if there were angels he would be on their side: and that would certainly include Charlie's AngelsMelvyn Bragg
