Andrew Doyle

Andrew Doyle

Dennis Potter: television’s great dramatist

His devotion to the medium sprang from his commitment to democracy.

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Andrew Doyle
May 17, 2025
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If there is a better television drama series than Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective (1986), I haven’t seen it. Recently I decided to watch again this fascinating and curious story, one in which the penumbral borderlands between past and present and fact and fiction are continually transgressed. It seems unlikely that such an experimental work of art…

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