{"id":136091,"date":"2018-04-11T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136091"},"modified":"2018-04-12T08:31:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T14:31:36","slug":"asimovs-foundation-to-be-made-into-a-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/11\/asimovs-foundation-to-be-made-into-a-tv-series.html","title":{"rendered":"Asimov&#8217;s &#8220;Foundation&#8221; to be made into a TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Good News: Isaac Asimov&#8217;s seminal SF epic will be made into a TV series (quite literally the only format that makes any sense other than, well, a series of books).<\/p>\n<p>The Bad News: It will be on Yet Another Streaming Service. Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>The Problematic News: Has there <i>ever<\/i> been a successful adaptation of an Asimov SF work? (1988&#8217;s <i>Nightfall<\/i> is the one movie I ever seriously considered walking out of.) How will the anthological aspects of the tale, esp. in the early series, play with the audience?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2018\/04\/asimovs-foundation-will-be-a-tv-series-on-apples-streaming-platform\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/b5wFB9eYlhdjiCmmeaUw0FNd46hXhZ7qvSULYaypHFq8FhT1kCTFKm8QgJEVGlBdf3sSgGk32MwEicSnuTED6iBQdFTHQ9YP2HyUO4b3HfjusaXqTkpUcoUsJoGhKqYOYQ=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2018\/04\/asimovs-foundation-will-be-a-tv-series-on-apples-streaming-platform\/\">Apple orders its most ambitious TV series yet: An adaptation of Asimov\u2019s Foundation<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe move follows others\u2019 failed attempts to greenlight adaptations of the books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/YBiFBVhaRUW\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Good News: Isaac Asimov&#8217;s seminal SF epic will be made into a TV series (quite literally the only format that makes any sense other than, well, a series of books). The Bad News: It will be on Yet Another Streaming Service. Ugh. The Problematic News: Has there ever been a successful adaptation of an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/11\/asimovs-foundation-to-be-made-into-a-tv-series.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asimov&#8217;s &#8220;Foundation&#8221; to be made into a TV series&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,36,40],"tags":[744],"class_list":["post-136091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-media-books","category-media-tv","tag-foundation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Heinlein-De-Camp-Asimov-1944.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47940,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/asimovs-foundation-trilogy-to-become-an-hbo-series-hmmmm.html","url_meta":{"origin":136091,"position":0},"title":"Asimov&#039;s &quot;Foundation&quot; trilogy to become an HBO series? 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