 This is the SF Productions podcast network Like the book you'll love the TV culture bunker I'm indeed and I'm mark you can check out our audio podcast how I got my way three comics on itunes or on our website SF podcast network comm first a quick update on our Oscar predictions We picked a lot of the same nominees and most of those did win Marshal Ali for supporting actors utopia for animated movie city of stars for original song Damien Chazelle for director and we both picked Denzel Washington for best actor Yeah, but went to Casey Affleck And we both picked La La Land for best picture which almost won Eventually went to moonlight When we split I did pick the right one. So the rules worked. Yeah Viola Davis for supporting actors and Emma Stone for actress The final score I got six and you got four. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, but on to our main topic so I was really excited when stars announced they were doing a series based on the American Gods novel and I Have been watching as it trickled out the news and it finally has a release date in April Mm-hmm. I won't be watching it then because we don't have stars Right, I will be watching it at some point, right? So I thought this would be a good opportunity to talk about TV shows based on books Now you always hear about books that have been made into movies for as long as there have been movies Well, I didn't know but as long as there's been television people have been basing TV shows on books, too I never really paid much attention to it But in the last ten years there's probably been at least a hundred television series based on books. Wow and that doesn't even count things like um Once upon a time which are kind of based on a Right based on more specific books. Yeah, so some of them that I've enjoyed recently are Sherlock and elementary Which are both based on Sherlock Holmes Kitchen Confidential that's an older series. Yeah, that was you remember that. Yeah, it's based on Anthony Bourdain's first book and that was a really good short 13 episode series and that was an early role for Bradley Cooper Bradley Cooper. Yes. Yes, that was very good I highly recommend if you can get your hand on it. It's pretty funny. I'm sleepy. Hello, right, which yeah Bones which is based on Books by Kathy Reichs, you know, so those are just some of them that either are on now or have been on that We've really enjoyed and If you look at those though A lot of those are sort of based on the book But they don't follow the book story necessarily and that's always a question as to how closely we follow and a lot People say well if you follow it exactly You know the people who read the books for me like well, I kind of wanted to see something But then you're limited by length. Yeah, which is though where you come in with a lot of the shows that are coming up Now and some of those that are on now The 100 on CW right now is based on books and actually the CW takes a lot of YA books because they're very angsty and makes them into shows of the Empire Diaries Pretty little liars things like that But then you talk about ones that really follow the books more In examples of that are the ones you do see that are the shorter run series Like Game of Thrones and the thing with Game of Thrones now is they've they've caught up They've caught up. Yeah, and George R. R. Martin has said I'm in no hurry to do the rest of them Yeah, so they're on their own now to continue the storyline right so up until this time That's followed the books pretty closely Yeah Outlander on stars is also following the books fairly closely. Although I guess they're leaving a lot of stuff out The Shannara Chronicles on MTV and the leftovers on HBO the first season again followed the book pretty closely But then as you get a second season, you've run out of book material, right? But what I'm really excited about is some of the shows that are coming up So Netflix is gonna do a lot and again, it's because of those limited series. They can really do a book justice So one of them is 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher and that's again a young adult book It's about a girl who commits suicide and leaves clues behind as to why and how it affects It's really an anti-bullying book. Hmm. So The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is out on Hulu now. It's a dystopian woman's fiction Um, it looks pretty good. I don't know. Have you seen any of the trailers? I am not so you're not at all Interested in that. Oh, I actually kind of am that's one of those things. I'm like, I should probably get to that at some point Okay, then just came out in January and it's been really well received as a series of unfortunate events by Lenny Snicket on Netflix. This is as opposed to the movie they did. Yeah So they did a movie that wasn't very good And I think that was a lot because Jim Carrey was in it Well, and I also think it's much harder as you said it's much it's much easier to do a TV show Where it's an ongoing thing that you can you can give time to tell your story as opposed to I got two two and a half Hours to jam this all in well and a series of unfortunate events is a series of 13 books Yeah, and I think for the movie they took like the first three books and put them in one movie But in this way, I think I'm not sure but they did one episode for each book Which is you know Great, you can actually expand it a little bit more Another one of my favorites and of green gables is coming out on Netflix We had a Disney series about that a while back, right? There have been a number of different versions of animals green gables PBS did a series. It's the one point I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Yeah, so this is yet another remake of the LM Montgomery book And I am going to watch that a lot of these things when they put them out on Netflix Sometimes it's hard to think about when you're gonna watch it because you're just gonna sit there and watch 12 hours of television And it's also there's no hurry to get to it because Netflix is if it's stuff that they produced it's not going anywhere It's not gonna cycle it's gonna be there for a very long time and in a way that almost I think almost hurts the show because you are like I get to it There's a lot of Netflix stuff. I'll get to eventually But but at the same time as you said it's a commitment And then of course as I mentioned earlier American gods based on the Neil Gaiman book is coming out It's gonna be on stars in the US But it's gonna be on Amazon Prime everywhere else because stars is a US network Yeah, well, yeah, that's happening a lot because of rights issues They get the international rights of somebody else and then the US rights go here And now this one then won't be all out at once, you know It'll come out, you know as a weekly series on stars And then of course there's people like me who are gonna wait until it's completely out and it will show up on Amazon Prime You know maybe next year For those of us who don't have stars and with Amazon Prime It's not as worldwide a system as say in a Netflix is so lots of areas in the world won't see it at all Mm-hmm Yeah Also on right now. It just started as big little lies. It's based on a book by Leanne Mori already It's on HBO and this is like a women's fiction not really a chick lit although almost and They got some big names for that one. She leaned Woodley Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon So that's another thing you see when you get these Books that people who like the book then want to be in the movie And if it can go on HBO or something they can spread it out longer Yeah, at the same time It's a set commitment as opposed to I'm gonna go on a TV show that may go on for years I don't want to do that, but I'm more than willing to say oh, I'll go do this thing for a few months and Be done. So then the question arises though. Is it then a TV series or is it a mini series? Well, that's always been a question, especially when it comes to awards time is what's a mini series and what's not Yeah, and it's pretty much what the producers decide it is There's no rhyme or reason to it One that I'm not at all excited about but I know a lot of people who are as mine hunter inside FBI's elite serial crime unit by John Douglas that's gonna be on Netflix and it's some Basically a true version of something like criminal minds or something, you know Uh JK Rowling is going to have her first TV series Kuku's calling by Robert Galbraith, which is her pen name for this detective series It's gonna be on BBC and then on HBO in the US This is I think isn't there some sort of partnership between BBC and HBO that happens quite a bit Yeah, and BBC then tends to end up partnering with somebody else a lot of this stuff If it's gonna be on in the US, it's either BBC America or PBS or and you know HBO will bring in more money. So Charlene Harris of True Blood Authorship is getting another series called Midnight Crossroad. It's getting a pilot on NBC and somehow I Don't know if that one will actually come to fruition just because her True Blood series was on HBO and So there was a lot more graphic stuff in it. I'm not sure she can tone it down for NBC. Yeah Sharp objects by Jillian Flynn it is technically called a miniseries on HBO. So that's interesting Maybe they're not planning on making anymore She's the author of Gone Girl and perhaps there's just no way they can see making a second season of this in any way shape or form The terror by Dan Simmons on AMC seems to be AMC is sticking with some of this horror stuff Like the Walking Dead, which I didn't even mention comics at all in here Right, that's not what I'm talking about but they tend to like that horror kind of thing and this is what will fall in with that and The last one that I'm gonna mention today is Emerald City on NBC which did not get rave reviews It's of course based on the series of books from the Wizard of Oz onward And that's a show that's been pushed back was pushed back like twice It was like made like three years ago. I think and they're just like, okay Maybe second half is enough. Nope next season. Nope next season But it does show that the way these TV series on books work You can push them back because they can be a contained unit Yeah You know if you just do 13 episodes that tells the book story you can put it on whenever you want sure I think we may be seeing more of that in the future and especially with this model of the 13 episode series It really lends itself to that it does. Yeah, so if you're not watching television You can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife treat comics on iTunes or on our website SNpodcastnetwork.com From the pop culture bunker, I'm Nindy and I'm Mark. Thanks for watching