NETFLIX is inviting viewers to imagine their favourite Warner Bros properties turned into prestige TV shows with moody lighting and no plot development.

Following the streamer’s purchase of the Hollywood studio for $83 billion, audiences have been ordered to choose their favourite epic to be made into a ten-hour bingeable show with utterly glacial pacing.

CEO Ted Sarandos said: “You liked Chariots of Fire? You’ll like it even more when it lasts all day and they haven’t even left Cambridge yet.

“We’ll be bringing the values which have made Netflix a thriving business, if you ignore all the debt, to the Warner Bros library. Expect exhaustively explored backstories, characters who take up time but go nowhere, all impossible to make out through gloom.

“Think Deliverance is a classic? I

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