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Salman Rushdie Making TV Series

Says “It's like the best of both worlds.”

Salman Rushdie, author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses, is changing media. The acclaimed British author is working on a sci-fi television series for Showtime called The Next People. In an interview, he says television drama now incorporates the best parts of novels and film. He has an “almost feature-film budget,” but with more artistic control than a screenwriter. He cited AMC’s Mad Men as a perfect example--writers can do all the writing alone, and, he said “what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

Read it at The Guardian

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