Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Wow! Look at restored The Professionals titles



Netwerk is releasing beloved blokey TV drama The Professionals as Blu-Rays soon, lovingly restored from the original film materials. As you'll see from the clip above, the results are amazing. Will somebody please do the same for Inspector Morse?

2 comments:

Andrew Glazebrook said...

Looks awesome !!

Mike said...

No mention of W1A - the best single-camera comedy ever?
Like a UK version of The Wire, it dissects the BBC at 3 levels: executive, producer & intern, skewering its targets with surgical precision. Still available on iPlayer, while stocks last.

Episode 3 has a 36-year-old new writer pitching his script, about "ordinary people trying to live their lives as well as they can" in Scarborough, to Head of Generic Comedy Drama & Head of Output. He's accompanied by a staff producer who's been helping him with the script for a few years.
HGCD: "Really interesting. I have to say, for me, it does feel a bit long."
P: "Do you want to put a bit of detail on that, just to help Dan get a sense of what you mean?"
HGCD: "I'm just thinking in terms of hinterland, really. Maybe show, don't tell. I may be wrong. Is it worth maybe thinking about consequences? It might just be this particular iteration of the idea."
P: "You do realise you've got two episodes there?"
HGCD: "Is there a way of starting in the middle here instead of at the beginning? Or is it maybe a question of re-imagining the precinct? Just to give it a bit more narrative heft."