About the Author

The finest TV critic of our time talks about Sport, Sitcoms, News, the Weather, Children''s programmes and ''Reality Television''.

A.A. Gill has been the must-read television critic in the SUNDAY TIMES ''Culture'' section for more than ten years. This collection of some of the best writing from his columns is broken down into themes - Sport, Costume Drama, Detectives, Children''s Television, and News.

And now it''s over to A.A. Gill:

''Those who complain, usually from the Parnassian heights of print journalism, that TV is dumbed-down and peddles dross to the lowest common denominator, citing Big Brother or Celibate Love Island, miss the point...
In barely a generation, the information from television has changed the way we see the world and everyone in it. That''s no small achievement. Television really does make a difference... It can bring down walls, save lives and right wrongs. It can also tell you how to put a water feature on your patio...''