TV critic Clive James has revealed he is spending the final months of his life watching Game of Thrones. What other shows might be considered essential viewing? Most people’s excuse for not being able to withhold up with the latest 13-hour series from HBO is being too busy. But since first being diagnosed with leukemia in 2010 and having seen off early obituaries in 2013,Clive James’s output could shame even the most productive of healthy people. He has written dozen of poems, including the beautiful, or valedictory Japanese Maple,two other non-fiction books and finished translating The Divine Comedy. So you’d forgive the TV critic’s TV critic for not having kept up with what’s on telly.
But polymaths gonna polymath! – of course he has. James told attendees of the Cheltenham literature festival that he has been chewing through his favourite box sets – having been watching The West Wing “continuously, forever” he plans to sit through it again.
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Source: theguardian.com