Editing Dennis Potter (section)

==Legacy==
Although Potter won few awards, he was and remains held in high regard by many within the television and film industry and was an influence on such creators as [[Mark Frost]], [[Steven Bochco]], [[Andrew Davies (writer)|Andrew Davies]], [[Alain Resnais]] and [[Peter Bowker]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/interviews/mark-frost/|title=Mark Frost Interview ‹ Little White Lies – Independent Film Magazine|date=2010-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430203936/http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/interviews/mark-frost/|archive-date=30 April 2010|url-status=bot: unknown|access-date=2017-09-26}}</ref><ref>''Bochco's musical drama [[Cop Rock]]'' (1990) was inspired by ''The Singing Detective''.</ref><ref>In 1990, ''[[The Observer]]'' newspaper asked several British television screenwriters to nominate the most influential person in the field. Potter was voted the most influential. Davies, who chose Potter, stated that "there can be no writer working in television today, or in any medium, who can claim even half the influence of Dennis Potter."</ref><ref>''[[Same Old Song]]'' (1997) was dedicated to the memory of Dennis Potter and was in the style of Potter's "lip-sync musicals" Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective and Lipstick on Your Collar</ref><ref>Bowker's BBC drama serial ''[[Blackpool (TV serial)|Blackpool]]'' (2004) was an attempt to revive British musical drama in the shadow of ''Pennies from Heaven'' and ''The Singing Detective''.</ref> [[Alan Bennett]] was critical, referring in his 1998 diaries to a television programme "that took Potter at his own self-evaluation (always high), when there was a good deal of indifferent stuff which was skated over", and believed that Potter's health was a factor in his fame, saying "he visibly conformed to what the public thinks artists ought to be—poor or promiscuous, suffering or starved".<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v21/n02/alan-bennett/diary|title=What I did in 1998|journal=[[London Review of Books]]|date=21 January 1999|volume=21|issue=2|access-date=10 October 2020|last1=Bennett|first1=Alan}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/that-nice-alan-bennett-takes-the-gloves-off-for-tory-politicians-the-queen-mother-and-dennis-potter-1280392.html|title=That nice Alan Bennett takes the gloves off for Tory politicians, the Queen Mother - and Dennis Potter|first=Ian|last=Burrell|work=The Independent|date=24 February 1997|access-date=10 October 2020}}</ref> [[BBC Four]] marked the tenth anniversary of Potter's death in December 2004 with documentaries about his life and work, accompanied by showings of ''Pennies from Heaven'' and ''The Singing Detective'', as well as several of his single plays—many of which had not been shown since their initial broadcast.<ref>These included the ''Nigel Barton'' plays, ''A Beast with Two Backs'', ''Follow the Yellow Brick Road'', ''Son of Man'', ''Double Dare'', ''Where Adam Stood'', ''Joe's Ark'', ''Brimstone and Treacle'' and ''Blue Remembered Hills''.</ref> Potter's papers, including unproduced plays and unpublished fiction, are being catalogued and preserved at the [[Dean Heritage Centre]] in Gloucestershire.<ref>{{cite web|first=Stephen|last=Morris|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jun/27/dennis-potter-archive-celebrated-writer|title=Dennis Potter archive offers glimpse into mind of celebrated writer|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=27 June 2013}}</ref>