Karaoke and Cold Lazarus were 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. Titles Comprise:... 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 karaoke 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 encounters real people bearing his character's names. The lines between the world he has created and the world in which he lives begin to blur - and a desperate struggle to control both becomes enmeshed in his evolving sickness and a terminal diagnosis. Re-writing his will to right wrongs leaving his body to a cryogenics laboratory and plotting to go out with a bang Daniel Feeld is about to write an ending for one world that will have great repercussions in the next. Cold Lazarus: In Cold Lazarus we find the cryogenically stored brain of Daniel Freed 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? [show more]
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All eight episodes of the two drama mini-series, written by Dennis Potter shortly before his death. In 'Karaoke' Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) is writing a script for television about a young woman who works in a sordid karaoke bar. However, Feeld starts to notice similarities between the real world and the fictional one he has created. When his battle to control both worlds becomes connected to his terminal illness, he decides to make some changes, including arranging to have his body cryogenically frozen, before he leaves one world that will have great consequences in the other. 'Cold Lazarus' is set nearly 400 years after the events of 'Karaoke'. A team of scientists are watching the memories of Daniel Feeld (Finney) after his brain was frozen through cryogenics. In a world where the state is in conflict with rebels, the memories provide a new reality and freedom. Fact and fiction become entwined as the scientists attempt to discover how to rewrite personal histories.
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