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Neil Gaiman on...Arthur?

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These books.

The 13 Most Well-Read TV Characters

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101 Best Written TV Shows

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15 TV Shows Based on Literature

The list, care of BuddyTV.

20 Most Beautiful Libraries in Film and TV

The list, care of Flavorwire.

Dracula is Coming...

to NBC primetime.

PBS - the Movie

BBC Plans Whaling Drama Based on Moby-Dick Inspiration

The story of dramatic survival of 14-year-old Nantucket seafarer Thomas Nickerson following a shipwreck begins filming in Malta.

From a piece in the Guardian...

Nickerson and seven other survivors spent three months at sea before rescue, with some finding themselves on the Pacific Island Henderson and others resorting to cannibalism at sea.

Melville is widely believed to have read Chase's book about the sinking although he would not have read Nickerson's own account which was written 55 years later in 1876, just seven years before he died aged 78.

However the BBC will put the cabin boy at the centre of its own retelling of the events and is due to cast a well-known American actor in the role of the older Nickerson recounting his experiences.

According to the producers of The Whale, which is being made with the US broadcaster Discovery, Moby Dick is clearly inspired by many of the grisly experiences of the Essex crew as documented by Chase.

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Colbert Reviews the History Channel's "The Bible"

Making TV's "The Bible"

Lena Dunham and the Girls of "Girls"

Literature on Screen

The Wall Street Journal takes note of the rise of literature we're finding in TV and movies.

From the piece...

"Parade's End" may test viewers' appetites for highbrow fare at a time when HBO and other networks are snapping up literary rights. As Hollywood has increasingly shied away from difficult literary works in favor of blockbuster comic-book reboots and sequels, a growing number of novels are coming to television instead. Gary Shteyngart is adapting his dark futuristic satire "Super Sad True Love Story" as a cable series with Media Rights Capital, the independent studio behind the Netflix series "House of Cards." Showtime is developing a series based on Seth Greenland's comic novel "The Angry Buddhist."

HBO has a handful of novels in development, including works by William Faulkner, Jeffrey Eugenides's multigenerational family drama "Middlesex," Neil Gaiman's fantasy epic "American Gods" and Tom Perrotta's quiet dystopian novel "The Leftovers."

"You can make a really complex narrative for a sophisticated audience, which is sometimes hard to do in a feature-film world," says Mr. Perrotta, who is co-writing the script for "The Leftovers," about the aftermath of a Rapture-like mass disappearance, with "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof.

Top 10 Dumbest Evil Geniuses

The list, care of io9.

From said list...

9) Lex Luthor from Superman

There have been many different versions of the scourge of Metropolis: the mad scientist who's mad at Superman because Superboy zapped his hair off, the business mogul who just wants Superman out of the way, the shadowy politician... but they're all kind of clueless when it comes down to it. Lex Luthor usually has everything you could possibly want — power, prestige, hot babes in chauffeur outfits, even the White House — but he still blows it all going after Superman. His battlesuit is emblematic of the problem: For one thing, it's a hideous green-and-purple color scheme. But also, it often goes wrong in the worst possible way. At one point, Lex gets his own whole planet of people who love him, Lexor, marries an alien princess. But then his battlesuit goes off during a battle and accidentally overloads the "Neutrarod," a spire he'd built to counter the planet's geological instability. And as a result, all of Lex's subjects die, including his wife and kid. He blames Superman, of course.

Malcolm Gladwell on Stephen Colbert

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10 TV Shows Better Than The Books They Were Based On

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Max Fleischer Superman Cartoon