Oh how we miss Dennis Potter, a writer of rare wit and imagination who was able to explore his own history and anxieties without disappearing up self-indelgent hole and for whom television was a medium of choice rather than a compromise format. In his distinguished career he created some of the finest television dramas of the modern age, including Son of Man (1969), Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone & Treacle (1982) Pennies From Heaven (1981) and the still magnificent The Singing Detective (1986).

Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with less than six-months to live, Potter undertook a race against time to complete his final two creations that were uniquely shared between Channel 4 and the BBC, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus.

In Karaoke, writer Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) is working on a fictional TV screenplay "Karaoke," about a stunning young woman who works in a sleazy karaoke bar run by the nasty Arthur "Pig" Mallion. But the lines between the real world and his story begin to blur when he encounters his written words being spoken in the world around him. He desperately tries to control the events while dealing with an evolving serious illness. He plans to depart the world with an explosive ending that will have great repercussions later. The series features an all-star line up including Albert Finney, Richard E Grant, Alison Steadman, Hywel Bennett, Roy Hudd, Anna Chancellor, Saffron Burrows and Keeley Hawes.

Cold Lazarus, the powerful final work from Potter and follow up to Karaoke, is set almost 400 years in the future as a group of scientists gather to watch the projected memories of a human brain – the cryogenically stored brain of writer Daniel Feeld. In a time that is far from free, the memories offer a new kind of reality and freedom. As elements of truth and fiction explosively intertwine, will Daniel's mind finally be set free? This science-fiction drama sees Finney resume his role as Daniel Feeld, alongside star turns from Frances de la Tour, Ciarán Hinds, Henry Goodman and Diane Ladd.

Karaoke and Cold Lazarus will be released on DVD as a four-disc boxed set on 6th September 2010 by Acorn Media at the RRP £39.99. Extra features will include a Dennis Potter biography and cast filmographies.