Riget

No living person knows it yet, but the gateway to the Kingdom is opening once again.

Great intro! I love the sound of that Danish deep voice. Please canvas, (re-)schedule this show asap! (And after that, re-air the Kingdom Hospital adaptation of Stephen King as well)

More on Riget/Kingdom at:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108906/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riget

Transcript of this opening sequence after the jump…

The Kingdom Hospital rests on ancient marshland
where the bleaching ponds once lay.
Here the bleachers moistened their great spans of cloth.
The steam evaporating from the wet cloth
shrouded the place in permanent fog.
Centuries later the hospital was built here.
The bleachers gave way to doctors and researchers,
the best brains in the nation and the most perfect technology.
To crown their work they called the hospital The Kingdom.
Now life was to be charted, and ignorance and superstition
never to shake the bastions of science again.
Perhaps their arrogance became too pronounced,
and their persistent denial of the spiritual.
For it is as if the cold and damp have returned.
Tiny signs of fatigue are appearing in the solid, modern edifice.
No living person knows it yet, but the gateway to the Kingdom
is opening once again.