Five novels ripe for adapting as TV series

"Big-screen book-to-movie adaptations only have about two hours to bring every plot detail and quote from a beloved book series to life, and while sometimes that works out really, really well, there are certain complex stories that just need more time—the kind of time quality television adaptations could give them," writes Sabrina Rojas Weiss at the Barnes & Noble Book Blog. One of five novels she thinks should become TV series:

The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer

The story follows friends from their meeting in a 1970s summer camp to their present adult lives, which haven’t all lived up to their artistic ideals. It’s a neatly wrapped-up story that could do fine as a movie, but if the right TV minds got hold of these characters, we see potential for expanding the compelling, grownup drama (with a touch of humor, a la Parenthood), spiced up with colorful flashbacks to the 1970s and ’80s.

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--Marshal Zeringue