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Other than Game of Thrones, which I absolutely love, I've heard about two new ones starting this summer. The one I'm most looking forward to is based on The Strain. One of the best vampire novels I've read in a long time and could be a fantastic series. The second one is based on Outlander. My girlfriend really wants to watch that one, so I'm reading the book now and enjoying it a lot. It has the potential to be a great series as well.
Wayward Pines - based on the books by Blake Crouch - is coming this summer. Should be interesting.
I've been wanting to check out Logmire (western mystery) on A&E, but they're pretty lame about putting it online and it's on hiatus now.
Hemlock Grove has a second season coming out on Netflix soon. I never see anyone talking about the book, though.
BBC America is also going to have The Musketeers starting at the end of June.I think SyFy is doing Guillermo del Toro's The Strain soon.
The Walking Dead is based on a comic book/graphic novel.
Under the Dome is from a Stephen King novel.
MTV is planning a show based on Shannara.
True Blood which is (thankfully) ending this summer was based on Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels.
Tamahome wrote: "I've been wanting to check out Logmire (western mystery) on A&E, but they're pretty lame about putting it online and it's on hiatus now."I've enjoyed them, but have to admit that much of season 2 is still on the DVR.
Michele wrote: "True Blood which is (thankfully) ending this summer was based on Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels. "Was hopeful when I read several years back that CBS was developing her Grave Sight books for TV, but wasn't surprised to see that they dropped it.
Liked those books more that The Southern Vampire books as it was darker and not as silly. Wish Mrs. Harris had continued with it, as well
Game of Thrones is the only decent one running at the moment. The big budget and HBO directorship really, really helps.I'd be afraid if any of my favorite books were made into TV shows. They simply would not work. They tend to be textual, and not visual. Or, so visual that only a Ridley Scott/HBO budget could pull it off.
Kenneth wrote: "Game of Thrones is the only decent one running at the moment. The big budget and HBO directorship really, really helps.I'd be afraid if any of my favorite books were made into TV shows. They simp..."
Ken, I know you are not a fan of Sword of Truth (I thought it the most inept fantasy ever written too), but aside from the merits of the source material, your point serves very well to illustrate the baseline quality level of an HBO production vs. an ABC production.
There's a series coming out based on Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers, but I wouldn't say it's a favourite book of mine. (I've only read one of Perrotta's novels, and didn't really care for it.) CW's currently airing The 100 based on the book.
There's an upcoming series based on The Last Ship, about a US Navy vessel's search for a cure to the plague that's killed 80% of humanity. (Sounds like a terrestrial version of Space Battleship Yamato.)
There's a European SF series based on Métal Hurlant, the SF anthology magazine better known in North America as Heavy Metal.
Has anyone seen Penny Dreadful?Obviously it isn't quite based on a book, it more seems to be drawing odd chunks from the victorian age penny dreadfuls (e.g., Frankenstein, Varney the Vampire, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Special effects and set design are amazing, on par with GoT, (although, without quite the grand designs such as castles, fields of soldiers, etc.)
It has a ridiculous cast list. My guess is they were trying to film a James Bond film, got sidetracked and made a horror TV show.
Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Billie Piper (Rose Tyler), Helen McCrory (Narcissa Malfoy)
Actually I might go so far as to speculate it as a loss-leader prestige piece to boost showtime the way GoT has done for HBO.
It's not SFF but Justified is really great and is based on (spun off from, really at this point) a short story and a couple of novels by Elmore Leonard.
Nokomis.FL wrote:"...Was hopeful when I read several years back that CBS was developing her Grave Sight books for TV, but wasn't surprised to see that they dropped it. Liked those books more that The Southern Vampire books as it was darker and not as silly. Wish Mrs. Harris had continued with it, as well "
As I don't get HBO so haven't seen True Blood, I expect to be disappointed as to how far from the books it strayed. But would have loved to have seen the Harper Connelly, Grave Sight books turned into a series.
Do love The Walking Dead, and some day soon I will catch both True Blood and The Game of Thrones.
Joe Informatico wrote: "....There's a European SF series based on Métal Hurlant, the SF anthology magazine better known in North America as Heavy Metal. " I tried to watch that the other day on Syfy. It was only 30 min or so and each one seems to be its own story. Not sure how easy it will be to get into. the only other I know of was the Paranormal Romance Bitten by Kelley Armstrong that was on SyFy here in the US earlier this spring.
The only upcoming Book-To-TV adaptation that I am the least bit interested in is The Expanse, coming to SyFy. I love the series, and am highly anticipating book #4 to come out later this year. But I am still a bit weary on the network formerly known as Sci-Fi. Their history speaks for itself but I am not one to based future performance on past performance. So I'm somewhat hopeful on how it will turn out.
There has been talk of Mark Lawrence's Prince of Thorns becoming a TV series. Click on this link for more info!http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.co.uk...
Syfy ordered 4 pilots: http://io9.com/syfy-is-ordering-so-ma...Letter 44 #1, Pax Romana, Ronin, and The Magicians.
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