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The Singing Detective (Bfi TV Classics)
The Singing Detective (BBC, 1986) has been described by novelist Steven King as "the Citizen Kane of the mini-series." Voted number 5 in the BFI's greatest television drama series/serial of all time, its innovative techniques and multi-layered narrative structure makes it a truly remarkable piece of story-telling that has become internationally influential. ...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
March 13th 2007
by British Film Institute
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Television doesn’t always age well, but Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective more than twenty years later is still just as riveting and confronting. I saw the series when it originally aired in 1986 and was completely fascinated, even if I didn’t entirely understand it. Watching it at this remove, I have a better insight into what’s going on and the fascination remains.
It reminds me – as it did w...more
Television doesn’t always age well, but Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective more than twenty years later is still just as riveting and confronting. I saw the series when it originally aired in 1986 and was completely fascinated, even if I didn’t entirely understand it. Watching it at this remove, I have a better insight into what’s going on and the fascination remains.
It reminds me – as it did w...more
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