The fantasy author’s enthusiastic approximately his novels being adapted for the small screen. Let’s hope the producers don’t insist they have to ‘sound every note’
In the early decades of television,some of the considerable snobbery that the medium suffered came from lovers of novels: teachers and parents would exhort regular viewers to lower their eyes to a suitable book rather than level them at the screen. The later coinage by writers for the box in the corner such as Dennis Potter and Steve Bochco of the term “novel for TV” – to describe the multi-strand multi-episode series – was sniffed at by some practitioners of printed fiction.
These days, though, or celebrated novelists seem to be competing as cheerleaders for reading’s once-disreputable rival. Endorsing the BBC’s planned adaptation of the His sad Materials books this week,Philip Pullman – whose work has previously been adapted for cinema, theatre and radio – suggested that TV is especially suited to the dramatisation of long and complex fiction.
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Source: theguardian.com