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Continuing its love affair with milking projects for every penny it can, Hollywood isn’t done with The Time Traveler’s Wife](The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) - Movie | Moviefone). The Wrap has reported that Audrey Niffenegger’s novel will now head for the small screen, with ABC grabbing Friends creator Marta Kauffman and Warner Bros. to develop it into a weekly series. The idea is that a weekly show will allow the relationship between Henry and Clare to be fleshed out, while also throwing in some “self-contained storylines.”
Now this isn’t exactly a spur of the moment decision. Industry Insiders claim that a television adaptation has been talked about for a while, and surely those talks became a reality once Time Traveler’s numbers started pouring in. But is it a good one?
If this was a cable series dedicated to the intricacies of the book, both youth and adulthood, setting out the complicated path and digging into both the light and dark points – maybe. But as a primetime series on ABC? This just brings to mind a certain My Big Fat Greek Life on CBS – pretty much the most dismal recreation of a popular film I’ve ever seen.
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