1 JANUARY 1983, page 27

Television

On balance Richard Ingrams Tt is really quite amusing the way research is showing that everyone is switching off, just at the same time the television com- panies are planning a......

High Life

Well deserved Taki N ow that 1982 is safely behind us it is time for 'High life's' jet-set awards of the year. Unfortunately, the crisis in ship- ping has put me in the same......

Cinema

Low drama Peter Ackroyd Looks and Smiles ('AA', Camden Plaza) W hile waiting for Ken Loach's new film in an almost empty cinema, my atten- tion strayed, naturally enough, to the......