5 NOVEMBER 1988, page 51

Television

Blame it on the box Wendy Cope ere is a horrifying statistic, culled from last week's This Week (ITV). The typical viewer's television-watching over a year would fill January......

Theatre

The Plantagenets (Stratford) Everything but the horse Christopher Edwards 0 nce the word went out., 'Make it new,' Now the injunction is, 'Make it last.' These Wagnerian demands......

Cinema

Vincent (`PG', Minema, Camden Plaza) Homage to an artist Hilary Mantel 0 ne of the reasons why films about painters and writers are usually unsatisfac- tory is that a film......