Talking Adaptations with Abbe Wright
from Advanced TV Herstory
Some of the freshest works on TV today are the result of screen adaptations of best selling novels. Abbe Wright of Penguin Random House, who is also podcast host of The Adaptables and Read it Forward. Advanced TV Herstory host Cynthia Bemis Abrams and Abbe discuss the current trend of adaptations from the publishing and storytelling perspectives. Since the early days of TV, adaptations of stage and literature have delivered incomparable works to primetime viewers. They discuss the 1977 miniseries Roots, based on the book of the same name. Current works like Little Fires Everywhere, Normal People, and Big Little Lies (all written and backed by women) are achieving great success with a new approach to storytelling. Podcast: The Adaptables https://open.spotify.com/show/66vrBJce6CegNFfuz5bMub CONNECT WITH CYNTHIA and ADVANCED TV HERSTORY Monthly Newsletter - https://cynthiabemisabrams.com/ Website - https://cynthiabemisabrams.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/advancedtvherstory/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@advancedtvherstory LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-bemis-abrams-5046573/ PRODUCTION Podcast Editing - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariloumarosz/ Video Editing - https://nivialopez.com/ Music by Jahzzar - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/
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