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Why TV Joined The Book Club: Novel Ideas Remain Hot In A Cautious Market
'Shogun', 'Rivals' and 'Slow Horses' prove book to TV adaptations continue to work globally.
Companies from all over the world are investing in everything from newspaper articles to Korean webtoons, but a traditional chapter-based novel most closely mirrors a television series format, so that’s where most of the cash is going — albeit with the caveat that great stories can come from anywhere. The Australian-born producer has been at the heart of the books-to-TV system over the past decade, adapting bestsellers such as Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Nine Perfect Strangers and The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart into series for the likes of HBO and Prime Video. Raffaella De Angelis, who leads literary adaptations for Fremantle’s global drama division, says optioning novels “without considering the next steps first is a disservice to the author.” That’s a constant guiding principle for the likes of Blunt and Papandrea, who say the whole system relies on trust and respect for the author’s work.
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