So Christopher...do you have any suggestions of you own or did you just post so you could correct others?
I've always thought Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s classic A Canticle for Leibowitz would make a great adaptation. Not a full-legnth multi-season series, but definitely a 6-9 hour long miniseries.
Nope. There was talk of a tv series several years back, but it never got out of Development Hell.
And, okay, I'm biased because I edited them, but I think Rosemary Edgehill's wiccan murder mysteries would make an interesting tv series . . . .
Ahh, thanks Greg. I was actually thinking of that movie that Christopher mentioned was recently announced. That's the one that came to mind. I knew I had heard something, but wasn't sure if it had already been released.
Maybe Paul Hogan's "The Giants" series, though maybe drop the last book or two. I found "Inherit the Stars" riveting and then the books dropped in quality from there on. That's not to say that the next two in the series weren't good though.
i'd be tempted to say the Anita Blake series, but it would have to be an 18+ series and done right... would be a pain to get the characters done right as well 
I'd love to see the Star Trek: Destiny and Typhon Pact series done as a TV show... that would kick ass
For a series that hasn't even been touched before, I'd love to see the Quantum Gravity set of books by Justina Robson done as a TV show...
http://www.bestsfbooks.com/b/1523/Keeping-It-Real-Justina-Robson
Absolutely fantastic series... sort of Cyberpunk, sort of Shadow Run, and all fun
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I'd love to see the Star Trek: Destiny and Typhon Pact series done as a TV show... that would kick ass
For a series that hasn't even been touched before, I'd love to see the Quantum Gravity set of books by Justina Robson done as a TV show...
http://www.bestsfbooks.com/b/1523/Keeping-It-Real-Justina-Robson
Absolutely fantastic series... sort of Cyberpunk, sort of Shadow Run, and all fun
M
You kind of need to set up your own imprint...
Dale Brown's Maclanahan series. of course that'll NEVER happen...
So I'm not the only one who notices that?
Anyway ...
Probably the easiest (read: cheapest) I can think of is the Aurora Teagarden series by Charlaine Harris. She's already a known, popular author with one tv series on the air and a second coming soon (Grave Site, on CBS). The AT series has no supernatural elements, and shouldn't require any CGI or special effects. It's a mystery series ... a young woman who happens to be a librarian who solves mysteries. Similar to the feel of Murder, She Wrote, only with a younger central character.
The other series I would love to see is Jean Lorrah's Savage Empire. It would take an HBO or a Starz to pull it off, though ... someone with a large budget. It's epic fantasy, swords and sorcery, telepaths and Adepts, all vying for power. There are seven books in the series, and at least the first book is now back out in "print" in e-book form.
The original Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov would probably make a great set of mini-series' at the least. Plent of good characters and a fantastic story that could work on a television budget due to the fact that the books are mostly dialog and leave the action in the background.
Anything other than the Roland Emmerich schlok fest we might get.
Anything other than the Roland Emmerich schlok fest we might get.
Maybe if FX technology ever gets to the point that George Lucas's Star Wars: Underworld TV series can be feasibly made the way he wants it, then a faithful adaptation of Dresden would be possible as well. For now, though, it would be prohibitively expensive.
I don't see why you'd think that. Other works have been adapted more than once. And the Dresden books are still quite popular. Honestly, the 2007 series didn't garner enough public awareness to negate that even if the show actually had been bad (which it wasn't).
I'm surprised there isn't a feature-film adaptation of Dresden in the works. Seriously, it's much better suited to features than TV, since then you could actually afford to do it more faithfully and since the books' stories are rather cinematic in scope. And you'd think that in the post-Harry Potter world, movie studios would be eager to snap up a popular fantasy-adventure franchise.
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Christopher I would like to hear some suggestions...if you have some. 
[edit] There are alot of great suggestions.
[edit] There are alot of great suggestions.
Another suggestion that I have is The Dark Wing series by Walter Hunt. I've recommended it before but it would work as a five season sci-fi space opera. It tells the story of the conflict between the human Solar Empire and the bird like warrior race known as the Zor. It is a four book series but with some tweaks it could work as a series. If you like "Bablyon 5" or even Honor Harrington you would probably like this series.
Well, I think I mentioned this in the thread about SF spy shows, but I've often thought Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry series would make a good TV show. It's basically James Bond in space, except that Flandry was created two years before Bond. In my head, when I read the Flandry stories, I imagine Bruce Campbell in the role -- though Bruce Campbell as he was a decade or so ago.
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