Thread: Stranger in a Strange Land coming to TV
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Old 11-21-2016, 05:19 AM   #78
MikeB1972
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
"Stranger" is a 16h audiobook, so that probably gives a rough indication of how long a TV series you'd need to include all of what's in the book. How long is a typical TV series in the US? 6h? 8h? In the UK a 1h timeslot on commercial TV is about 48m of programme, because of commercial breaks. I think it's rather less than that in the US, isn't it?
I'd assumed they would do their usual 3 x 2 hour miniseries (Dune, Ascension, Riverworld, Childhoods End etc).

Happy to be wrong of course.
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