#television-adaptation

#television-adaptation

In 1977, Star Trek was gearing up for a comeback. After being canceled in 1969 and enjoying a brief return as an animated series in 1973, the beloved sci-fi series was finally coming back to live action. History will tell you this resulted in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but before that, there were very serious plans for a sequel TV series, generally referred to as Star Trek: Phase II.

An Israeli-Palestinian restaurant in Berlin conceived as an island of peace will close in the spring, but its Jewish and Arab owners say their dream will live on in a television series based on their unlikely partnership. Kanaan, a decade-old casual eatery in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the German capital, gained an international profile for its message of unity over hate after the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas and the outbreak of the Gaza war.

Sam Adams: Nadira! Hard to believe it's been 18 short months since the last time we gathered to assess the Season 2 finale of House of the Dragon. Fortunately, nothing important has happened in that time, so let's pick up right where we left off. Sort of. HBO's new series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms takes us back to Westeros, roughly the midway point between House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones. But,

Having not thought about the show for five years, a vivid image came to me in bed one night, he says. I saw a boy in a Colombian monastery, waiting for a black car to come over the hill. For some bizarre reason, I knew who those characters were. Suddenly, I was half-awake and the rest came flying out of me. I wrote it all down in case I forgot. In the morning, I looked at my notes and thought: This is good, actually.'

In Mick Herron's 2003 debut novel Down Cemetery Road, the first of his Zoë Boehm series, protagonist Sarah Trafford gets involved in a neighborhood mystery mainly because she is bored. At least, that's how people around her see it - stuck in her picture-perfect house in Oxford with no career to speak of and her marriage slowly falling apart, she wants to feel useful.

Noah Hawley highlighted the advantage of having a franchise with minimal mythology, allowing flexibility in exploring the story within the established universe of Alien.

The second season of Netflix's The Sandman, launching July 3, faces the challenge of addressing Neil Gaiman's controversies while staying faithful to its source material.

Foundation Season 3 has crafted its most urgent episodes yet, positioning itself as the true Game of Thrones in space, deserving a larger audience.

The Nordic noir series Dept. Q, featuring Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck, explores complex cold cases, and the dynamics of its flawed protagonist within a fresh narrative setting.

Matthew Rhys, as Inspector Leach in Towards Zero, is a charismatic presence embodying hungover exhaustion and irritated scorn, making the adaptation looser and sillier than expected.