Dennis Potter: Karaoke & Cold Lazarus

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David Simpson

Certificate: PG
Running Time: 480 Mins
Retail Price: £39.99
Release Date: 06/09/2010
Content Type: TV Series

Synopsis:
KARAOKE and COLD LAZARUS were the final two television dramas written by the acclaimed TV playwright Dennis Potter. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with less than six months to live, Potter undertook a race against mortality to complete two television dramas which were uniquely to be shared between Channel 4 and the BBC. In a televised interview with Melvyn Bragg he said My only regret is if I die four pages too soon. He didn t and the result is a fitting tribute to a life committed to the creation of some of the finest television drama ever written. In KARAOKE, Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) is working on a fictional play for television. The play, entitled Karaoke , concerns a beautiful young woman working in a sleazy bar run by Arthur Pig Mallion. Fiction and reality begin to intertwine when Feeld overhears snatches of his dialogue in the world around him and a desperate struggle to control both his fictional world and the real one becomes enmeshed in his evolving sickness and a terminal diagnosis. Starring Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Alison Steadman, Hywel Bennett, Roy Hudd, Anna Chancellor, Saffron Burrows, Keeley Hawes, Ian McDiarmid and Julie Christie In COLD LAZARUS, we find the cryogenically stored brain of Daniel Feeld trapped in a future world where scientists gather to watch his projected memories. Under pressure from rival corporate interests, the scientists fall victim to the tricks that memory can play, picking at threads as they try to comprehend how personal histories are written and can be rewritten. As elements of truth and fiction explosively intertwine, will the mind of Daniel Feeld finally be set free? Starring Albert Finney, Frances de la Tour, Ciaran Hinds, Henry Goodman and Dianne Ladd

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