441: Evil Dukes Are the Worst

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Leisure, Arts

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this era of peak TV, with more than 500 scripted English-language series on the agenda for 2019, what better time for our very well-read panel to suggest books and book series they’d like to see turned into new TV shows? If you’re a TV producer, you’d better act fast—since we recorded this episode, one of our picks has already been announced as a new project! If you’re not a TV producer, consider this a great reading list of books that you’ll like so much you’ll wish they were adapted into TV shows.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 441, January 2019.
0:09.0	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and it's one of those episodes, it's kind of not a draft, but it kind of is a draft.
0:17.0	This is a suggestion from a listener.
0:19.0	Listener Ian, thank you for your suggestion,
0:21.6	which is, why don't we have the panelists suggest books or book series that they would like to
0:27.3	turn into television series? Now, since we didn't write the books, unless somebody, unless Dan
0:32.8	really nominates his own book, which can totally happen. I don't want to... No spoilers. No spoilers. It can happen. It can happen.
0:39.2	Well, let's just wait for it and see if it happens.
0:41.4	Otherwise, we won't really profit for this. It's really an excuse to talk about books that we really like.
0:45.9	And also put it in the context of, wouldn't this be a cool TV show? frankly, there have been so many books on this podcast over the years that we have talked about
0:55.0	as a book and that they've turned into a TV series, The Magicians, The Expanse. The Rook is
0:59.5	coming actually as a TV series too. There are a bunch of others that have turned to movies or
1:03.0	TV shows. And I feel like we have read a lot of books and we have opinions about what
1:08.6	might make a good TV show. So we're going to explore that.
1:11.5	Tonight, we're going to take a couple rounds.
1:12.9	People are going to give pitches for what they'd like to see as a TV show
1:16.0	based on a book or series of books that they like.
1:19.2	Or maybe hate.
1:20.1	Maybe they hate the books, but think it'll make a great TV show.
1:22.8	It could happen.
1:24.2	Let me introduce our panelists.
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