His final works are essential viewing, the legacy of a life devoted to the small screen. Uniquely co-created by Channel 4 and the BBC in accordance with the dying writer’s wishes, Karaoke and its futuristic sequel Cold Lazarus, star Albert Finney as a dying writer whose final work is becoming real in front of him. A case of life imitating art imitating life?
Dennis Potter died in 1994. His final works are essential viewing, the legacy of a life devoted to the small screen. Uniquely co-created by Channel 4 and the BBC in accordance with the dying writer’s wishes, Karaoke and its futuristic sequel Cold Lazarus, star Albert Finney as a dying writer whose final work is becoming real in front of him. A case of life imitating art imitating life?
Convoluted and compelling, Potter’s and Feeld’s fiction and reality converge in a drama of both surprises and inevitabilities. Complete with trademark singing, Karaoke boasts a powerful cast, including Julie Christie, Richard E Grant, Alison Steadman and Hywel Bennett, in a breathtakingly intelligent evocation of a simple theme. Unmissable.