Raymond Chandler by way of Dante and Busby Berkeley may begin to describe the sensibility of "The Singing Detective," Keith Gordon's ambitious, ultimately superfluous adaptation of Dennis Potter's ...

It’s probably just a coincidence that the two great films of the 1980s were both TV series. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Decalogue” (1988) found modern ethical equivalents for the Commandments in 10 ...

Two years before he died, in 1994, Dennis Potter reworked the script for his legendary seven-hour 1986 British television series, The Singing Detective, by switching its setting Stateside to Chicago ...

Meet the full cast and crew of The Singing Detective including actors, directors, producers, and more.

Alison Steadman looks back at Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, hailed as one of the most important and influential TV dramas ever made, and once described by Stephen King as ‘television’s ...

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) _ Robert Downey Jr. understands the public's curiosity with his past drug and alcohol troubles. The self-deprecating actor even beats people to the punch to toss out a wisecrack.

Less a remake than a reinvention of the landmark 1986 BBC miniseries, Keith Gordon’s vibrant, hyperstylized feature is based on a script completed by Dennis Potter shortly before his death in 1994.