Glued to the Box

Glued to the Box (TV Criticism from the Observer 1979–1982),[1] is a 1983 book[2][3] featuring the third and final collection of television criticism that Clive James wrote for The Observer.

The volume finishes with his "standing up and moving aside" for his successor, Julian Barnes.

"No doubt he will slag one of my programmes first chance he gets, but by then I will be in the habit of damning all critics as fools."

The London Review of Books wrote: "Along with its two predecessors, (Visions Before Midnight and The Crystal Bucket), it will stand as a once-only critical phenomenon: ten years worth of high intelligence and wit."

Sheridan Morley called him "far and away the funniest writer in regular Fleet Street employment.