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Jan 27, 2022 · 22 books to read before watching the TV shows, from 'The Witcher' to 'Killing Eve'. Written by Mara Leighton. Jan 27, 2022, 2:00 PM PST. Watch your favorite books come to life on the screen with ...
- Mara Leighton
- 61% Kindred: Season 1
- The Lying Life of Adults
- Mayfair Witches
- Lockwood & Co.
- The Snow Girl
- Not Dead Yet
- Daisy Jones & The Six
- The White House Plumbers
- The Walking Dead: Dead City
- American Born Chinese
Premiere Date: December 13, 2022 Network: Hulu Based On: Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 novel. The Fanbase: People who appreciate how different genres can be used to discuss historical fiction, à la shows like Amazon’s Them or HBO’s Watchmen. What We Know So Far: The show follows Dana, a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of ...
Premiere Date: January 4, 2023 Network: Netflix Based On: Elena Ferrate’s 2019 novel The Fanbase: Ferrate adaptations are having a moment, so chances are anyone who loved the HBO series My Brilliant Friend or the Netflix movie The Lost Daughter will be into this YA-tinged series. Everything We Know So Far: The six-episode Italian-language series st...
Network: AMC/AMC+ Premiere Date: January 5, 2023 Based On: Anne Rice’s book series. The Fanbase: Horror and suspense novelist Rice was more known for her work in the vampire genre (and AMC developed a series based on her Interview with the Vampire because of it), but her fanbase also knows her history with witches as well. Everything We Know So Far...
Network: Netflix Premiere Date: January 27, 2023 Based On: Jonathan Stroud’s book series. The Fanbase: Could it be a show with kids that’s not actually a kids’ show like Stranger Things? Or a silly comedy about spooky creatures like What We Do in the Shadows or Ghosts? What We Know So Far: Edgar Wright’s production company has teamed with Attack th...
Network: Netflix Premiere Date: January 27, 2023 Based On: Javier Castillo’s best-selling crime mystery, La Chica de Nieve. The Fanbase: Anyone who tries to solve true-crime dramas or high-brow scripted mysteries like HBO’s Mare of Easttown before the detectives working the case can crack it. Also, those who understand Spanish and/or don’t mind sub...
Network: ABC Premiere Date: February 8, 2023 Based On: Alexandra Potter’s 2020 novel, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up The Fanbase: Despite the harshness of Potter’s book’s title, the series seems a little lighter. It stars Jane the Virgin alum Gina Rodriguez and is created by This Is Us producers David Windsor and Casey Johnson. Everything...
Network: Prime Video Premiere Date: March 3, 2023 Based On: Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel. The Fanbase: Rock fans who like to go behind the music. What We Know So Far: Partly inspired by Fleetwood Mac, Daisy Jones stars Riley Keough (Elvis’ granddaughter!) as the face of a 1970s rock band that exploded out of the L.A. music scene — and then brok...
Network: HBO Premiere Date: March 2023 Based On: Egil “Bud” Krogh and Matthew Krogh’s 2009 book, Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House The Fanbase: History buffs who still enjoy kicking around Nixon. Everything We Know So Far: Deadline reports that this five-part limited series, which is based on public records ...
Network: AMC Premiere Date: April 2023 Based On: Characters from Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore’s The Walking Dead comic series. The Fanbase: Those who kept with the original The Walking Dead mega hit long enough to understand the complicated dynamic between Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan and Lauren Cohan’s Maggie (remember that time he killed her husb...
Network: Disney+ Premiere Date: 2023 Based On: Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel The Fanbase: Mixing in several genres, the action-comedy is about a teen-aged child of immigrant parents who becomes entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods after he meets a new foreign exchange student has a lot going for it. Everything We Know So Far: Kelvin ...
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- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Opened May 4, 1976, at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. Music by Leonard Bernstein. Book and Lyrics Alan Jay Lerner. Lasting only seven Broadway performances, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was Leonard Bernstein’s last score written for Broadway.
- 1776. Opened March 16, 1969, at the 46th Street Theatre. Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards. Book by Peter Stone. Starring William Daniels as John Adams, Howard Da Silva as Benjamin Franklin, Ken Howard (again) as Thomas Jefferson, and a young Betty Buckley in her Broadway debut as Martha Jefferson, 1776 told the story of Adams’ quest to convince the Founding Fathers to sign the Declaration of Independence.
- All the Way. Opened March 6, 2014, at the Neil Simon Theatre. Written by Robert Schenkkan. Bryan Cranston made his Broadway debut (and won his first Tony Award) starring in this story about President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
- Allegiance. Opened November 8, 2015, at the Longacre Theatre. Music and lyrics by Jay Kuo. Book by Mark Acito, Jay Kuo, and Lorenzo Thione. Star Trek’s George Takei and Tony winner Lea Salonga starred in this new musical set during the Japanese internment of World War II.
Mar 30, 2023 · The 20 Best TV Shows Based on Books: Normal People, Outlander, Big Little Lies and More From the Past Decade. The 20 Best TV Shows Based on Books: Normal People, Outlander, Big Little Lies. and ...
- Band of Brothers. Created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, this Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBO miniseries from 2001 follows the “Easy Company” of elite U.S. World War II paratroopers from their days of training until the end of the war.
- The First Lady. Depictions of U.S. presidents are a Roosevelt dime a dozen on television, but Showtime gives long-overdue attention to their spouses in this 2022 anthology series, with Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Viola Davis portraying Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford, and Michelle Obama, respectively.
- Gaslit. With Julia Roberts in the lead role, this 2022 Starz political thriller shows how Martha Michell, the outspoken wife of then-President Richard Nixon’s attorney general John N. Mitchell (Sean Penn), helped blow the cover off the Watergate scandal.
- The Good Lord Bird. Ethan Hawke co-created and led the cast of this 2020 Showtime miniseries, playing abolitionist John Brown, whose 1859 raid of an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, didn’t kick off the slave revolt he imagined but did set the stage for the American Civil War.
Jul 15, 2020 · Looking For Alaska: 8.1. Looking for Alaska had a short run but it was a success among audiences for a reason. The show is based on the highly popular teen coming of age novel of the same name. Looking for Alaska was John Green's first novel, having been published in 2005.
1 day ago · The Originals, a spinoff of The Vampire Diaries, is based on the book series by L.J. Smith and follows the lives of the intricate, powerful Mikaelson family. The show dives deeper into the books' dark, rich world, exploring the complex relationships between the characters and fleshing out the supernatural mythology.
