Television adaptation

Television Series adaptation

Most recent films are often created as a complete and uncensored version of a typical television series or soap operas. It is common however, for such films to modify the story line making it longer than the traditional version that was adapted from the TV series.

This modification can also involves the use of more modern technical form of production mainly in the form of animations and visual effects that helps to capture the interest of the viewers. For example, the adaptation of “The X Files” (an American television series created by Chris Carter from 1993 to 2002) into film, involved the use of computer-generated effects and a more technical narrative plot with key characters such as David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Another example was the adaptation of Dickens’ novel “Great Expectation” (1836-1870). Although the production was commercially successful, its modification certainly increased the length of the original story line.
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Furthermore, the adaptation of television shows often offers the viewer the opportunity to see the television show's characters without broadcast limitations. These additions (nudity, explicit violence, profanity, explicit drug use) are rarely a featured adaptive addition. Instead, most films tries to offer a "real life" narrative, as if commercial television were inherently censored for intricacy. Some adaptations of television shows are evocative and usually paradoxical. Films about television shows of the audience's childhood such as Scooby-Doo, plays up television conventions and will sometimes exploit the difference between movie and television potential for comedic effect.