Books I Want To See As TV Shows

The reason why I've chosen TV and not films is that a lot can go wrong with films, changes always occur, fans get angry, and it becomes a flop. However with a TV series you can build up your following and also start off with a smaller budget, though I do realise that TV shows also curve away from the source material, I do prefer this opted platform.

So here I begin with all the books, well mostly series, that I would like to see as TV shows...

The Airhead Trilogy by Meg Cabot
I had initially thought this series would make a great film franchise, but then again the films would most likely leave out all the vital information to condense it down into a two hour movie. Once I did some rethinking I'd definitely prefer this as a TV series because it would be awesome to watch, each book could fit into one or two seasons. I'd just love this story to be brought to life because it is one of my favourite trilogies of all time, though it has been awhile since I've last read it so I don't have any fan cast's, but definitely go check it out.

EM WATTS IS GONE. 

Emerson Watts didn’t even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening. But someone needed to look out for her sister, Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs there—along with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard. 

How was Em to know that disaster would strike, changing her—and life as she’d known it—forever? One bizarre accident later, and Em Watts, always the tomboy, never the party princess, is no longer herself. Literally.

The Spy Girl Series by Carol Hedges
There are currently four books in this series and I'm still wishing for more, but its been years since the last one was published so its very unlikely. I'd love to see this brought to TV screens, there's so many action packed sequences and many mysteries within this series, I'd definitely say it has some similarities as Veronica Mars, however the setting is the UK instead of the sunny US.

Alex Rider meets Nancy Drew in a futuristic spy thriller full of adventure and suspense. Jazmin Dawson's alter ego, Jaz, is a gorgeous super-spy, and she doesn't have a serious snack habit, unlike Jazmin herself. In real life, the closest Jazmin gets to dangerous missions is waving goodbye to her mum, who works for secret intelligence.

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
This is one of those life altering books where you put everything about life into perspective, this is also one of my first reads of the after life and I absolutely loved it, definitely a tearjerking book and it does take a lot for a book to break me. Gabrielle Zevin already has one of her books made into a movie, which is Memoirs Of A Teenage Amnesiac, but I think Elsewhere would make a great series though it would have to be quite small, so maybe two or three seasons. But I would reconsider if it were optioned into a movie, it would just have to be handled right or people wouldn't understand the concept behind Elsewhere.

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful. You can’t get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere’s museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe’s psychiatric practice.

Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver’s license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she’s dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn’t want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?

 Penryn & The End Of Days Series by Susan Ee
I love love love this angel series, it definitely falls behind the shadowhunter world in that department, I believe this series has five books though there could be more. I have heard this series has been optioned for film, but as of yet no one is attached to the project, so it could be many months or years before we hear of any developments. The reason why this would work out better as a TV show is that a lot of key information would be cut in order to produce a two hour film, and that key information connects to the later books in this series. It would be entirely lost on the audience, losing the shock factor of all the twists and turns we find along the way of this amazing series. Again, there isn't an existing series out there like this one, which will make it a unique TV show.

It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. 

Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel. 

Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. 

Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. Together, they journey toward the angels' stronghold in San Francisco where she'll risk everything to rescue her sister and he'll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.

What do you think of my list? Should these books be adapted to TV or film? Are there any other books you want to see adapted for screen?