If they remake it, how about as a tv mini series?

I have watched this movie a couple of times and although it is not a bad movie, it is not a great movie either.
I thought they spent too much time on the sub getting to the Arctic and once they were there everything just fell into place with a nice tidy ending.
All the time on the sub is just worth to watch Patrick McGoohan who made his David Jones character the only character in this movie who was not a cardboard cutout. The movie’s all-male cast (insert your own Rock Hudson joke here) just seemed to be standing around trying to act and sound as manly as they could (insert your other Rock Hudson joke here).
The story never came alive for me. I never felt like there was a lot of tension on the sub or any great hurry to find out who was causing all the problems. Once up north, there are a few good scenes of people crossing the frozen expanse, but by the time the final showdown comes, does anyone really care?
I have never read the book on which this movie was based. I don’t know how closely the film follows the book. However, from reading various plot summaries the book’s plot is more like a murder mystery with Cold War overtones. Who is the spy at the station and who is the saboteur on the sub? Also, a lot of the character’s motivations seemed more personal than "keeping the world safe for democracy" or loyalty to one’s homeland like it was portrayed in the movie.
The movie kind of glosses over the bad guy at the station and makes the guy on the boat seem that much more cunning when he was not meant to be. Once at the station one character is dispatched and no one really seems to care.
All kidding aside, Hudson just never came to life for me in this movie. He did the part fine, but he is basically the same guy at the end of the movie that he was at the beginning. His character just struck me as being bland.
If there was ever going to be a remake, I would do it as a television mini-series and played out over two or three nights. I think that would give the various characters room to develop and more could be done with the different characters and so on. It would give someone the chance to act like a detective, both on the sub and at the station, put the pieces together and solve the thing by the end. I think, visually, what can be done now on a television budget can match what they did in the original movie. If they needed something to match the look of an Arctic landscape, there are numerous locations in Canada that can be utilized. About everything else can be done on soundstages, just like the original movie.
I would keep the story a Cold War thriller. I know Cold War movies went out of favor following "The Hunt for Red October," "The Russia House" and that whole fall of the Soviet Union thing I saw on the news. However, I have always liked the time period and there was nothing in anything that I saw in the movie or read in any plot summary that would cause the Cold War to end if one side won out over the other. Besides, the Cold War setting is always interesting with the opposing world powers trying to out do each other.
I am not saying a remake would have to be exactly like the movie or exactly like the book, but I think there could be more story and character development that could be added to round the whole thing out.