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New ways of seeing
High-definition TV is giving arts coverage added depth. By Stephen Armstrong
Working in arts television these days must feel like the moment when the
frumpy secretary takes off her glasses and shakes her tresses free, and the whole
office suddenly gasps as everyone realises how beautiful she is. After years
of abuse at the hands of controllers who put out arts shows at midnight, and
then only when licences or charters were being reviewed, we suddenly have hours
of bright, well-researched and beautifully shot stuff — and not just on the
worthy mainstream channels. With BBC4 and More4, multichannel television has a
decent fistful of respectable and mainly imaginative offerings
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But if top-notch arts series don’t lure viewers to HD, there’s always the
footie and Wimbledon, which go out in the format this summer, as will repeats of the BBC’s Planet Earth and Bleak House. US dramas such as Sky’s Rescue Me, 24, Bones, Over There and Stargate are already being shot in HD and will screen in the format this year, along with England’s one-day cricket internationals and next season’s football. And HD movies — Kill Bill, Spider-Man 2 and Big Fish, for instance — debut on Sky in June.
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New ways of seeing
High-definition TV is giving arts coverage added depth. By Stephen Armstrong
Working in arts television these days must feel like the moment when the
frumpy secretary takes off her glasses and shakes her tresses free, and the whole
office suddenly gasps as everyone realises how beautiful she is. After years
of abuse at the hands of controllers who put out arts shows at midnight, and
then only when licences or charters were being reviewed, we suddenly have hours
of bright, well-researched and beautifully shot stuff — and not just on the
worthy mainstream channels. With BBC4 and More4, multichannel television has a
decent fistful of respectable and mainly imaginative offerings
////////
But if top-notch arts series don’t lure viewers to HD, there’s always the
footie and Wimbledon, which go out in the format this summer, as will repeats of the BBC’s Planet Earth and Bleak House. US dramas such as Sky’s Rescue Me, 24, Bones, Over There and Stargate are already being shot in HD and will screen in the format this year, along with England’s one-day cricket internationals and next season’s football. And HD movies — Kill Bill, Spider-Man 2 and Big Fish, for instance — debut on Sky in June.
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