The Singing Detective

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It may (or may not) be worth pointing out that The Singing Detective is being aired from tomorrow.

Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music. Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with the skin complaint psoriasis, tormented by his past and threatened by his future. His memories, his 1930s-style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.

This is television.

 

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I never watched it first time round,if I get hold of the telly remote 2mrw,I'll be tuning in.

 

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The iPlayer is as worthy of praise as any other god.

So to speak.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN--atshVqs

 

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I am absolutely and genuinely Tipsy McStaggered i hadn't remembered that Alison Steadman played the boy's Ma.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074qxv/The_Singing_Detective_Heat/ (Ep.1 has already gone - which is a damn shame)

Practically perfect in every way.

 

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Alison Steadman the week before last

David Thewliss (soldier no.2) last week

Ken Stott this week

Quite apart from all that, without wishing to over-accentuate the positives, superlatives are simply not enough. Only genius cuts the mustard.

 

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Well, if you didn't watch it, you've missed it.

And if you've missed it, then more fool you.