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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think that one of the reasons for that is that here, when a book is adapted for TV, it's a self-contained adaptation in 6 episodes (or whatever). My impression is that US TV wants to milk the property for all it's worth and plans 10 seasons of 26 episodes each (and then cancels it after the first season  ). |
One can never figure out what the TV executives are doing. They replaced mediocre programming with reality tv, cancelled good shows because they weren't instant hits and change the time slot of a good show to kill it off. I haven't watched broadcast TV in years, although I appreciate that I can watch Netflix and see some of the good ones later on.
I just bought a year membership on Acorn (BBC shows on Roku) for my Mom and she's in seventh heaven. We do get confused how they mark series though.
Related to the original topic, however, I finally got the audio for Good Omens, so will have a chance to hear it. I read that it is standalone from the Diskworld at the stage I'm at, so doesn't matter that I'm only up to book 25.