Theoretical: If HBO did Sc-Fi what books would you want them to do

[Sindatur]

I'll have to watch for The River. Anything on American showing of further Torchwood?
Miss Captain Jack....

Trailer.

Bless you my son!
Starz
Is this Torchwood America or the regular show?

Yes, to both, this is Torchwood's new series/new season with Gwen, Jack and Rhys, and it's an American Co-Production with Starz.

 

[JD]

It is the same show, they're just moving it partially to the US. From what I've read they start off in the UK, and then move it over to the US.

 

[O'Dib]

Dunno if it's been mentioned before, but I think the Dune novels could benefit from an even more serialized format.

I'd very much like to see Dune done in a Game of Thrones-style TV series.* I guess I'm not sure how long such a show should go on for - I'd like the first four Dune novels in an ideal world, which would probably add up as three seasons (such a slender thing, Dune Messiah), but I don't know, maybe there's a way to save Chapterhouse and Heretics, either of which I haven't read in almost a decade and only dimly recall really not liking at all.

I guess the problem beyond a lack of closure to the existing Herbert novels as an arc - this assuming, of course, one doesn't just want to adapt the first book - is whether or not a Dune film would be prohibitively expensive.

*It's a conflict between two great houses, with a focus on the patriarch of one of the houses and his offspring as he moves to a new location... the comparison comes rather naturally, frankly.

Agreed, the ass-kickedness of GoT is what made me think of Dune. Covering the God Emperor would be strange, what with only 2 cast-members making it into that season. Unless, of course, a lot of the characters took up screen time as Leto II's head-ghosts, a la Dexter.