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 ...

BECAUSE he was committed to it as a medium, Dennis Potter, who died on June 7th, was the most innovative writer yet to grace British television. In works like “Pennies from Heaven”, “The Singing ...

In 1980, British screenwriter Dennis Potter was coming off two major successes: the 1978 miniseries Pennies From Heaven, about a depressed sheet-music salesman who escapes his miserable life by ...

“Our culture has long since acknowledged that childhood is not transparent with innocence,” Potter wrote in an introduction to the published script of Hills, “and that its apparent simplicities are ...

“So he emerges,” author David Thomson wrote of the late Dennis Potter, “as some kind of sprite or devil, from out of the woods …” Potter, certainly the greatest writer ever to take television drama as ...

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 ...