[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry Potter TV series

Wanda Mallett witchwanda2002 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 26 09:49:51 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 28238

I know myself and my family would love it! They made
The Worst Witch into a series! We loved the cable
movie and the series from Canada! With all that is on
tv, why not! We watch all the WB toons and R.L. Stine
is back with more of his Nightmare Room Stories. We
watched all of The GooseBumps on Fox Kids! We need it
that HP fix! With all that goes on in the books, a
movie wouldn't cover it all. Money would certainly be
an issue. Once the movie has done it's run and then
goes into video and dvd sales, a series could be next?
It would be great! But we can wish for it anyway. Star
Trek is still making money! Now there is Enterprise
with Scott Bakcula (not sure on that spelling), but
you make a strong point! As the saying goes, time will
tell.

Wanda the Witch of Revere, Massachusetts and Her Band
of Merry Muggles

--- ohtoresonate at yahoo.com wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Zarleycat at a... wrote:
> > Okay, everyone calm down - there is no Harry
> Potter TV series that I 
> > know of.  I only put that as a subject because a
> friend of mine 
> > < snip > wonders why JKR opted for a movie instead
> of a TV series.  
> > Yes, a movie is BIG, SPLASHY, ATTENTION-GRABBING,
> and worth a lot of
> > $$$....but my friend's thought centered on the
> Star Trek phenonenom.  
> > She thought "Why not run the Potter books as a
> serial TV program? 
> > The producers could do a chapter a week/a book a
> season and not run 
> > into the problem of having the child actors grow
> up too fast.  Plus,
> > like Star Trek, there would be the syndication
> possibilities.  Harry
> > could run forever on TV.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> Here are some:
> 
> ~ Making a TV series is arguably more time consuming
> than shooting a 
> movie.  Like her other fans and surely her
> publishers, I don't want 
> JKR to be even more distracted from writing the rest
> of the books.
> 
> ~ A TV series has a much leaner budget...and magic
> don't come cheap.  
> Speaking of expensive special effects, how fitting
> that Lucas' 
> Industrial Light & MAGIC is doing the FX work on the
> CoS film.
> 
> To maintain the same level of craftsmanship as the
> $125 million film, 
> imagine the price for each of the 30-second
> commercials (on US TV, the 
> *absolute maximum* number of spots in each hour
> would be about 30)!
> 
> ~ Since the HP books are so tightly plotted (all
> Flints aside) and JKR 
> seems very committed to wrapping up Harry's
> adventures at Hogwarts in 
> 7 volumes, 3 of which is yet to be publicly
> committed to paper and 
> ink, starting a series before the entire arc
> concludes could risk the 
> integrity of the story - you don't want to commit to
> anything that 
> might contradict the books yet to be written.  Come
> to think of it, 
> this is true of the films too...hmm...  
> 
> Syndication is also more difficult with a property
> like this one - 
> the episodes would make no sense if watched out of
> sequence.  Notice 
> that most shows that do well in syndication are
> situation comedies and 
> adventures, formats that work best when each episode
> is relatively 
> self-contained, unlike, say, soap operas.
> 
> ~ Her opting for the movies doesn't mean she had to
> pick film instead 
> of TV.  If these films do well, you can bet there
> will indeed be a TV 
> series, but only if it manages to further explore
> the mythology that 
> JKR has set up since JKR seems pretty adamant about
> her creations 
> remaining faithful.  Possible...very possible!
> 
> BTW, Harry already "run forever" on my car
> stereo...now in both 
> Stephen Fry and Jim Dale's voices. <g>
> 
> :) OTR, back in LA from the UK and wishing she had
> more time at
> 
> 


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