The Night Manager mini-series

This is much closer to what I'm thinking, I love the 6-hour complete story aspect. $30M budget is reasonable. 

But it's also split into six 1-hour episodes, which is like forcing a book to be written in 6 chapters of equal length. 

I'd still like to see a film-style mini-series split into chapters of indeterminate length. Possibly with chapter headings like Pulp Fiction. So you can watch each chapter at your own pace. I think forcing them into 1-hour boxes is too close to episodic television for my taste. It works, and it's a huge step in the right direction. But I'd like to go further with it.