Daily Read (5/17/16)
Exciting news for Charlaine Harris fans: NBC has picked up the series adaptation Midnight, Texas. (As I mentioned, we’ll have a roundup of the new adaptations coming to network TV later this week, once...
View ArticleNew Clips from The Hollow Crown
I love the BBC’s Shakespearean history play adaptations that are collected together as The Hollow Crown, and while I haven’t yet seen a date for the new season airing in the U.S., the Beeb has kindly...
View ArticleDaily Read (5/19/16)
Armando Iannucci (Veep) is making political satire The Death of Stalin (based on a French graphic novel) and the cast looks interesting so far. Mother and daughter Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson...
View ArticleFull Trailer for Time After Time
ABC has two new shows next season that are based on novels. We already showed you quick first looks, and they haven’t released a longer trailer for Still Star-Crossed yet, but here’s Time After Time:...
View ArticleDaily Read (5/23/16)
Showrunner Ronald D. Moore on How ‘Outlander’ Avoids Formulaic Sex Scenes Huh. Author Chuck Palahniuk (with collaborators) is crowdfunding a movie based on his novel Lullaby. There are only a few...
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Wayward Pines Teaser, Recap, & More
Season two of Wayward Pines premieres on FOX tomorrow night, and they’ve released a whole bunch of videos in the past several days. We’re just going to pick two to embed here, but if you want to see...
View ArticleDaily Read (5/25/16)
Great news: Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time adaptation is looking for non-white actors to play the lead roles. Epix is working on a Get Shorty series, adapting Elmore Leonard’s novel (of which there...
View ArticleNew Boxcar Children Movies
According to Deadline, a bunch of new family movies based on children’s books are headed our way from Shout Factory and Legacy Classics – starting with The Boxcar Children. I love these books, so I’m ....
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Thoughts on Outlander’s Two-Season Renewal
Starz announced yesterday that they’ve renewed hit show Outlander for both seasons three and four. Multi-season renewals seem to be getting more common recently, and I don’t always think they’re the...
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New Secret Garden Movie in the Works
According to Deadline, there’s a new movie adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s novel The Secret Garden. It’s got some kidlit movie cred – David Heyman and StudioCanal are...
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