User blog comment:Mesmermann/Ciarán Hinds playing Mance Rayder!!!!/@comment-26308-20120817195059/@comment-26308-20120819072537

IVANHOE (the BBC version, late 1990s) certainly is. Hinds plays a Knight Templar in the medieval period who falls in love with a Jewish woman and drama results. COLD LAZARUS, like most Dennis Potter projects, is good but quite bizarre and offbeat. You also really need to watch its companion series, KARAOKE, to really understand what's going on: KARAOKE is a contemporary drama whose main character is revived 300 years in the future in COLD LAZARUS by a team of scientists led by Hinds's character.