Skip to main content
Book cover

Adapting Television Drama pp 17–67Cite as

Palgrave Macmillan

Producing Adaptations

  • 75 Accesses

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture book series (PSADVC)

Abstract

This chapter first offers a contextual introduction to the relevant concepts and debates of both television studies and adaptation studies in understanding the work of the producer on television adaptations. The chapter then provides four original, full-length interviews with British executive producers who have worked extensively on television adaptation projects, followed by an analysis of the key themes emerging from the interviews. For example: the importance of titles, producerly notions of “fidelity”, negotiating authorship within adaptation productions, and broader industry adaptations affecting television producers today.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50177-6_2
  • Chapter length: 51 pages
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
eBook
USD   44.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-50177-6
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Hardcover Book
USD   60.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
Learn about institutional subscriptions

References

Books, Chapters, and Articles

  • Booth, W. C. (1983). The Rhetoric of Fiction (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Boozer, J. (2008). ‘The Screenplay and Authorship in Adaptation’. In J. Boozer (ed.). Authorship in Film Adaptation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1–30.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • ———. (2004). ‘Branding’. In H. Newcomb (ed.). Encyclopedia of Television: Volume 1, A–C (2nd ed.). New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 305–308.

    Google Scholar 

  • ———. (2008). Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Cantor, M. G. (1971). The Hollywood TV Producer: His Work and His Audience. New York: Basic Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cury, I. (2017). Directing & Producing for Television: A Format Approach (5th ed.). New York: Routledge.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Foucault, M. (1969). ‘Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?’. Bulletin de la Société Française de Philosophie, 63(3), 73–104.

    Google Scholar 

  • Garnett, T. (1998). ‘Reading University Speech 1998’. Tonygarnett.info. Accessed: http://tonygarnett.info/reading-university-speech-1998/ (last viewed: 05.04.2021).

  • Herbert, D., Lotz, A. D., and Punathambekar, A. (2020). Media Industry Studies. Medford, MA: Polity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hutcheon, L. (2006). A Theory of Adaptation. New York: Routledge.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, C. (2012). Branding Television. London: Routledge.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • ———. (2019). Online TV. London: Routledge.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • ———. (2020). ‘The Appisation of Television: TV Apps, Discoverability and the Software, Device and Platform Ecologies of the Internet Era’. Critical Studies in Television, 15(2), 165–182.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, C., and Grainge, P. (2015). ‘From Broadcast Design to On-Brand TV: Repositioning Expertise in the Promotional Screen Industries’. In M. Banks, B. Conor, and V. Mayer (eds.). Production Studies, the Sequel!: Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries. London: Routledge, 46–58.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krauß, F. (2020). ‘From “Redakteursfernsehen” to “Showrunners”: Commissioning Editors and Changing Project Networks in TV Fiction from Germany’. The Journal of Popular Television, 8(2), 177–194.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Levine, E. and Newman, M.Z. (2011). Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status. New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mayer, V. (2011). Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Mayer, V., Banks, M. J., and Caldwell, J. T. (eds.). (2009). Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries. New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • McElroy, R. and Noonan, C. (2019). Producing British Television Drama: Local Production in a Global Era. London: Palgrave.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Mittell, J. (2015). Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling. New York: NYU Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Murray, S. (2012). The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation. New York: Routledge.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Pearson, R. (2005). ‘The Writer/Producer in American Television’. In M. Hammond and L. Mazdon (eds.). The Contemporary Television Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 11–26.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Wells-Lassagne, S. (2017). Television and Serial Adaptation. New York: Routledge.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

Television and Film

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. London, UK

    Christopher Hogg

Authors
  1. Christopher Hogg
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Christopher Hogg .

Copyright information

© 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Limited

About this chapter

Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Hogg, C. (2021). Producing Adaptations. In: Adapting Television Drama. Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50177-6_2

Download citation