Karaoke (1996)

Written while Potter was dying of pancreatic cancer and shown two years after his death, in four episodes in spring 1996. At his request it was a joint production of the BBC and Channel 4, airing on BBC1 on Sunday evenings with Channel 4 repeating it the next day. Albert Finney plays Daniel Feeld, an aging writer watching his new screenplay being filmed, who starts to find its characters and lines turning up in the real world around him. It is Potter looking back at his own methods with a wry, mortal eye. Watch it straight before Cold Lazarus, since Potter thought of the pair as one eight-part piece.