Alison Steadman looks back at Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, hailed as one of the most important and influential TV dramas ever made, and once described by Stephen King as ‘television’s ...

Late in Dennis Potter's greatest and most famous work, The Singing Detective, the mystery-writer hero Philip Marlow is grumbling about the public's desire for art that offers easy answers: "People ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kenith Trodd at a screening of Dennis Potter’s classic The Singing Detective: in the 1990s he was axed by the BBC after branding ...

It’s probably just a coincidence that the two great films of the 1980s were both TV series. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Decalogue” (1988) found modern ethical equivalents for the Commandments in 10 ...

Robert Downey Jr. is a terrific actor but not enough people know it. His best work has been in movies few people saw. The sad part about his much-publicized drug problem wasn't just that it almost ...

Less a remake than a reinvention of the landmark 1986 BBC miniseries, Keith Gordon’s vibrant, hyperstylized feature is based on a script completed by Dennis Potter shortly before his death in 1994.