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Old 01-07-2017, 09:11 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Chedwiggen View Post
I wasn't sure if I'd like this or not but in the end I found it entertaining though it does make me wish someone like Netflix would also do a series that's a straight up adaption of the books. I'll definitely continue watching even though I have a feeling it will be canceled, hopefully I'm wrong because it's nice to have something on tv that's different from the other shows on.
Some places seem to be referring to this run as "the first season", but NBC refers to it as an "event series", which is usually code for limited run mini-series. It's scheduled for 10 episodes, and I'm reasonably sure that NBC will air all of them -- though if it does poorly enough, they might burn off episodes on Saturdays instead -- but I'm not expecting anything beyond these 10.

While there's certainly room for a straight-up adaptation of the books -- because we've never actually gotten one to this day -- I actually like the fact that it's taking the basic premise and doing something wildly different. But then, I'm a fan of Modern Dress Shakespeare, so there's that.
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