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Like I’ve said before, Christmas is time for watching fresh TV in Britain, either one-off special episodes or, in the past, Bond films. Spike TV has accidentally stumbled on the latter by running marathons of 007 films over Thanksgiving weekend. The way they do it involves perverse amounts of self-promotion and commercial breaks in excess of 5 minutes for every 9 minutes of each film. More palatable is the news of restorations for upcoming DVD editions involving ultra high-resolution scanning of the original negatives (the New York Times reported that the company behind this work, Lowry Digital, employs 600 Macintosh G5s with a combined memory of 2,400 gigabytes for this project).
