I am a little surprised that this morning's mail is not full of messages about last night's episode of Chicago Hope. There was such a fuss about ER's live broadcast of its first episode of the season, I expected the same after the competing hospital decided to do a Dennis Potter on US network TV. Just imagine, only a dozen years after The Singing Detective, Pennies From Heaven and Lipstick on Your Collar, we get a taste of the same technique. Was it a rip off, or was it a tribute? Well, one of the one-time characters who appeared in this episode was mysteriously named Potter. You decide. I enjoyed the show, don't get me wrong, but I wonder how many people who saw it realized that it owed its off beat technique to a British writer who got his doctors to keep him alive just long enough to finish his last two screenplays: Karaoke and Cold Lazarus. I'd be interested in other comments, and any word on sources for Dennis Potter's work. Chris Chris M. Worsnop Consultant, speaker, workshop leader, writer media education, assessment, writing Homepage: <http://www.screen.com/mnet/eng/speakers/cw/worsnop.htm> 2400 Dundas Street West Email: <[log in to unmask]> Unit 6, Suite 107 Phone: (905) 823-0875 Mississauga Ontario, Canada L5K 2R8 "The only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge and the creation of beauty." Arthur C. Clark ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]