How do they do it?

[Blukoo]

Whenever I'm watching the likes of 'Grand Designs' I notice they always get beautiful shots. Shots that I would only think possible if they were HDR. but surely if its film, HDR is impossible.

Do they use filters?
Magic cameras?
Or... (open to suggestions)

How do they get such perfect exposure?

This might seem like quite a dumb question, but i'm drunk, so I don't care...

[GetCarter]

On TV, film is almost never used these days. It's digital and can be manipulated like any DSLR image.

[fluffnik]

Big -off HMI lights?

[Zad]

"Colour grading" in old terms (yes, Photoshop). They often use graduated grey and blue filters though, like Top Gear do.

A good example of tweaked saturation and contrast, grad filters and vignettes:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TeXr50LNJfM