Thanks for the Potter comment, John. Come to think of it, I'd seen something featuring a two-way intereview with him and Stephen Bochco that was apparently a disaster: Potter aloof and disdainful of any US TV and Bochco at a loss. > If you had asked about cinema, I'd have said Jean-Luc Godard; but as I > have not seen the work he did for television, I cannot add his name. Yes, I've seen some of his video work with Anne-Marie Mieville and I think that that would indeed qualify. But I think that the tapes I've seen were video releases, as it were, rather than productions for French television. I'm a bit unclear on their release histories--excepting 6x2: SUR ET SOUS LA COMMUNICATION ("on and under communication"), a six-part series done for French TV in 1976-77. (In your post you'd mentioned the possibility of Brechtian documentary. This videotape could perhaps fit the bill.) I guess I need to go back and review the CAMERA OBSCURA (no. 8-9-10) pieces on it and FRANCE/TOUR/DETOUR/DEUX/ENFANTS...